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A.C. Cargill, All-Human Author's avatar

Ne'er die and e'er lie

Organs rest in jar 'side me

Disturb not my sleep

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Honeygloom's avatar

Or else? 😅

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A.C. Cargill, All-Human Author's avatar

Wake me and see … bwahaha!

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

My death was my own

This new life, swathed and swaddled,

Is Universal

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh this is so good! On a deep and punny, you’re a talented guy😏

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Waking up to such praise, it will be enormously difficult to fit me and my ego into a room for the rest of the day (and wherever ego goes, there goes me). Bless you and your generosity, Gloomster!

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Leigh Parrish's avatar

Got my new RX.

Freshly ground mummy. Is it

Cannibalism?

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love this! I gotta go with yes, and also just 🤢

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erniet's avatar

Karloff's constant curse

Monster man, mummy man, ghoul,

Swathed in typecast gauze

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Honeygloom's avatar

Frankenstein’s monster… he looked so iconic there though.

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A.C. Cargill, All-Human Author's avatar

First movie I saw him in was The Mummy. Scared the bejeebees outta me.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Worst dad moment of all:

taking the family to see

a shrivelled mummy's arsehole

in a shiny glass display case

in an exhibition hall

in a museum -

it was educational

cos it made you think

what was the last thing

the mummy person shat out

three thousand five hundred and six years ago

give or take?

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[Sorry, not a haiku, but some thoughts are just too grand, poetic and expansive to be expressed in a short form. ]

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Honeygloom's avatar

That’s amazing😆 I’m not even going to lie I tried to find it online and I couldn’t. BUT(T) I did learn that most mummies had their intestines removed through a trans abdominal slit, unless they were wealthy, then the cut was through the anus. So the mummified bum you saw might have been from an economically disadvantaged mummy if the anus was intact.

✨the more you know✨

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Are you calling my mummy a slovenly no-account bum?

To be absolutely accurate, it wasn't a mummy at all but a bog person who'd been dessicated and preserved in peat by the acidity of the soil.

Some Irish no-goodnik and most probably my ancestor if the extreme misfortune of being drowned in a bog is anything to judge by.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo bog bodies are so cool!! I just listened to a podcast about them, the Old Croghan Man is probably one of the most amazing and disturbing things I’ve ever seen.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

The one I'm talking about is nearby, Gallagh man, maybe a long-lost Gallagher brother.

The National Museum in Dublin is well worth a visit for all the bog fellas, not to mention the Celtic jewellery - nearby in the National Library is the Book of Kells

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Shrunken head mummy

Cut off in prime time

Youth forever mine on a string.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo nice! Keeping it fresh😏

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Like a head of lettuce.

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MS Rivera's avatar

Wrapped in cloth and oil

Body and soul stay intact

Immortal, alive…

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Honeygloom's avatar

So beautiful, I really love the image you’ve created🖤

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Theresa Greene's avatar

Mummy or Mommy

Both gone from their earthly shells

The same as beached clams

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh what an interesting image! I love it🖤

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Hybrid Sequence Media's avatar

Thunder from thy sword

Sight beyond you have risen

Laugh now, Mumm-Ra

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh nice! Very atmospheric!

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Hybrid Sequence Media's avatar

I used a Thundercats reference.

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Honeygloom's avatar

You know I watched that when I was a kid, but I don’t remember a lot of it.

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M. N. Tarrint's avatar

Ancient dusty dreams

Desert skies blue as Faience

Entombed vengeance waits

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh man, that middle detail is so good, so pleasant, it’s a great set up for the jump scare in line three🖤

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M. N. Tarrint's avatar

Thanks! Oooh I wrote a jump scare lol!

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

He'd looted the tomb,

Nothing was missed, but just then,

Something grabbed his wrist... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo nice! A cliffhanger, a great internal rhyme, well done🖤

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Thanks! This was a really fun prompt... 😎

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erniet's avatar

Because of this prompt I'm now watching the 1932 classic...😂

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Maryann's avatar

Where's Eternal Life?

The Nile calls me back home

Bastet, protect me

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Honeygloom's avatar

So beautiful, I love peaceful vibe🖤

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Dylan Delgado's avatar

Inside wilted wraps

lies an old fellow - waiting

for tech to wake him

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh very cool take! I really like what you did here🖤

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erniet's avatar

I gotta do another based on my favorite Weird Western...😂

Elvis, JFK

One last stand against evil

Bubba Ho-tep dies!

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Honeygloom's avatar

I just read a summary of that🤣 Sounds hilarious!

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erniet's avatar

It's a delightful little gem!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

I combined two prompts-The Mummy and ASYLUM-to compose a series of Senryū that tell a story in 80 words.

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Dusty asylum halls

Whisper ancient secrets

Mummy case arrives

𓃻

Bandaged patients peer

At leathern-wrapped newcomer

Kinship in stillness

𓀀

Night nurse makes her rounds

Hears rustling from storage room

Scrolls unfurl, dust stirs

𓁙

Hieroglyphs on walls

Scrawled by trembling, frantic hands

Match papyrus scraps

𓁝

Dawn breaks. Empty case

John Doe's bed holds pharaoh now

"I am home," he smiles

𓁷

Orderlies stand guard

As millennia unravel

Madness or magic?

𓁶

Love turned to dust yet

Inside this asylum's walls

The bound body awakens

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo that’s a wild combo! I love it! Especially the second to last one, that one made me want to write a story about it🖤

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Do! I have an a story writer. Not one of my talents.

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