This is awesome! The one scarecrow line in the middle gives all three poems such a great underlying creepiness. But they can all still be read as totally innocent and fun.
Ah! Cornfields are indeed mysterious. I have walked in them and viewed them from a car window, the rows fanning by in a procession. My book "Wind Down the Chimney and Other Eerie Tales" has a story featuring a cornfield--one intent on surviving the ravages of the harvest.
Antietam giants
Clasp shoulders, bow heavy heads,
Stand in blood-mud rows
I love this image! So chilling! I only know Antietam from the Civil War, any other reference I’m missing?
No, it was just that Antietam was fought (at least in part) in a cornfield and the description of the blood in the mud there got me.
My alternative was:
This uncivil war
Plants us beneath cob and husk
Never to ripen
Ah ok! I really like the alternative version, too. There is a lot of tragedy packed into such a small package.
Ooh, look! A corn maze!
Huh. Nobody else is here.
Where'd the exit go?
So scary! I’ve been wandering in cornfields as a kid and it really can seem like you’ll never get out😱
Yikes! A real nightmare!
In tall rows it grows
Yellow columns beckon you
Come in and get lost
OR
Something died out here
I can smell it on the wind
Watch where you're steppin'
I love them both! The second one is such a disturbing image🖤
Headpiece stuffed with straw
He glowers over ragged stalks
Fodder of the crows
Ooo very creepy! Love that he’s got volition to glower, but also getting eaten by crows🖤
We are the hollow men alas!
😁 I love quoting snippets of poets and song lyrics in everything I write!
I do it quite a lot myself. Almost nobody spots the snippets though
Same here…😂
Remembering “Children of the Corn”
Eyes glowing with dread
Whispers of the lost children
Screams echo at dusk
Very eerie! Such a great movie, too!
A girl met her beau one day
In the tall stalks, and so it was
that flesh and straw became as one
[Shoutout to Pearl]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHed_tTvyhI
Ohh that’s good! 🖤
I’ll listen later, I’m at work rn😭
Really a NSFW video unless your work is very cool about girl-on-strawman action
Eh, I work with a bunch of dudes in a warehouse, they’d probably be into it😂
Corn amazing grace
Stalks tall and thick
The grimace face lost within
Found lost in the din-sin time
Fallen among rotting blades
Popping corn a blaze
Oh man that’s a creepy one, someone lurking… setting the field on fire🖤
Between the stem rows
Stalks obscure sight. Whispers come
From stalkers unseen.
Stalkers unseen! Well done🖤
They say don't go in,
Evil lurks between the rows,
And won't let you out... 😎
And endless maze, very terrifying thought🖤
An endless maze of endless maize... 😎👍
Some folks call it “maize”
While others claim that it’s “corn”
I say: “toothpick bait.”
😂 I love that!!
"Let's Burn Down The Cornfield" wrote Randy Newman, and sang Etta James and Long John Baldry, among others.
Only smart thing to do with a cornfield…
Omg. Fond memories of doing the great Vermont corn maze several times. Now I've got to think of a scary version 🤔
We have haunted corn mazes here in the fall, they’re so much fun!
zigzagging stalks dance
in moonlit cornfields (giggle)
stars wink back at earth
.
tiny green whispers
hush hush the scarecrow grins wide
frogs play hide and seek
.
cornfield's tickle fight
with summer breezes whoosh whee!
happiness unmasked
This is awesome! The one scarecrow line in the middle gives all three poems such a great underlying creepiness. But they can all still be read as totally innocent and fun.
Thank you! What an unexpected topic.
Ah! Cornfields are indeed mysterious. I have walked in them and viewed them from a car window, the rows fanning by in a procession. My book "Wind Down the Chimney and Other Eerie Tales" has a story featuring a cornfield--one intent on surviving the ravages of the harvest.
Oh that’s a really cool concept! Sounds like a great read!
It’s one of those ideas that I had jotted down years ago and then about a year ago revisited, thanks to things like Macabre Monday.
Assembled gold rows
Swaying with the rhythmic gust
Swarming dread surrounds
OR
Straight rows all ahead
A stench permeates the wind
When will I be found?
Oh man, I love these both so much! The first one is just scary as hell and the second so tragic. Really well done🖤
Yellow maize in bloom
Calls the crows closer; leading
People to escape
Ah nice, a little corvid deliverance. I like it🖤