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!
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.
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.
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
My death was my own
This new life, swathed and swaddled,
Is Universal
Oh this is so good! On a deep and punny, you’re a talented guy😏
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!
Got my new RX.
Freshly ground mummy. Is it
Cannibalism?
Love this! I gotta go with yes, and also just 🤢
Karloff's constant curse
Monster man, mummy man, ghoul,
Swathed in typecast gauze
Frankenstein’s monster… he looked so iconic there though.
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?
_____
[Sorry, not a haiku, but some thoughts are just too grand, poetic and expansive to be expressed in a short form. ]
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✨
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.
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.
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
Shrunken head mummy
Cut off in prime time
Youth forever mine on a string.
Ooo nice! Keeping it fresh😏
Like a head of lettuce.
Wrapped in cloth and oil
Body and soul stay intact
Immortal, alive…
So beautiful, I really love the image you’ve created🖤
Mummy or Mommy
Both gone from their earthly shells
The same as beached clams
Oh what an interesting image! I love it🖤
Thunder from thy sword
Sight beyond you have risen
Laugh now, Mumm-Ra
Oh nice! Very atmospheric!
I used a Thundercats reference.
You know I watched that when I was a kid, but I don’t remember a lot of it.
Ancient dusty dreams
Desert skies blue as Faience
Entombed vengeance waits
Oh man, that middle detail is so good, so pleasant, it’s a great set up for the jump scare in line three🖤
Thanks! Oooh I wrote a jump scare lol!
He'd looted the tomb,
Nothing was missed, but just then,
Something grabbed his wrist... 😎
Ooo nice! A cliffhanger, a great internal rhyme, well done🖤
Thanks! This was a really fun prompt... 😎
Because of this prompt I'm now watching the 1932 classic...😂
Where's Eternal Life?
The Nile calls me back home
Bastet, protect me
So beautiful, I love peaceful vibe🖤
Inside wilted wraps
lies an old fellow - waiting
for tech to wake him
Oh very cool take! I really like what you did here🖤
I gotta do another based on my favorite Weird Western...😂
Elvis, JFK
One last stand against evil
Bubba Ho-tep dies!
I just read a summary of that🤣 Sounds hilarious!
It's a delightful little gem!
I combined two prompts-The Mummy and ASYLUM-to compose a series of Senryū that tell a story in 80 words.
𓁿
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
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🖤
Do! I have an a story writer. Not one of my talents.
Scroll of Thoth uttered
Imhotep rises, questing
For Anck-es-en-Amon
Had to google🤦♀️ I really need to watch more of these old movies😅
You've not seen "The Mummy"?😳
You must correct this lack post haste!😂
Does the Brendan Fraser one count? 😅
No!
🤣🤣