OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears
For today’s poem, pick a piece of prose: a piece of horror flash fiction, or short story, and pick through its bones to create a piece of found poetry. You don’t have to present it as an erasure poem, but that can be fun. Here’s an example of an erasure poem I did last year:
Writober 2023
To start off our second week, our image prompt is another gif. This form looks to be made of something other than bones.
Halloween Photography Challenge
I switched from Tourmaline .’s “Skeleton” to “Bones” to line up with A. Rich Writing‘s Writober list.
Please link to your creations in the comments. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
And how fun is this Lantern fish skeleton for some bones Halloween decor?
Experience Writing 
Here’s Laura De Bernardi’s found poem for today:
Here’s my found poem, each line sourced directly from the novel – Bradbury’s language so brilliant it was easy pickings:
Look What I Found
in Ray Bradbury’s
Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962
For some, autumn comes early
stays late through life,
fall is the ever-normal season,
there be no choice beyond.
Does blood stir their veins?
No: the night wind.
They sift the human storm
for souls, eat flesh of reason,
fill tombs with sinners.
They frenzy forth.
In gusts, they beetle-scurry,
make all moons sullen.
The spider-web hears them,
trembles—and breaks.
Such are the autumn people.
Beware of them.
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I like how you did the erasure poem. Very spooky presentation.
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Thank you. I found that text in an old Playboy. I thought it was funny that it was written by Bill O’Reilly. 👻🎃
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: O Now that’s entertainment! 🙂
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