Horror Haiku Club Prompt
April 8 - Spectral Evidence
The allowance in a courtroom for evidence produced by a ghost or astral projection.
Your prompt is SPECTRAL EVIDENCE.
Haunted little girls
Seeing specters in courtrooms
Did you mean to kill?
Many specters appeared in the courtroom during the Salem witch trials.
Accusers—>Accused
Eyes claim unseen truths,
Yet the spectral fingers point,
Their fates now entwined.
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Whispered in the dark,
Visions turn on their masters,
Irony's sharp bite.
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Seers become seen,
Haunted by their own specters,
Justice's twist grim.
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Once accusers, now
Chased by shadows they summoned,
Tables turned, they fall.
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Visions once wielded,
Now chains that bind their bearers, Unseen irony.
"J'accuse!" the spirit
Cried, and pointed. The jury
Gasped; it was the judge...