Oct. 18 Prompts: Fear of the Living Dead Trespasser

Fear of Trespass: Write your poem in the language of a police report in which the burglar or attacker was supernatural. I highly recommend reading Pasco police officers report DUI arrest in poem form (not supernatural) for inspiration.

Here’s a resource on How to Write a Police Report. And here’s a link to some Police Terminology and here’s some more jargon.

This may work as a Prose Poem, or a Narrative poem.

Writober 2023

Today’s image prompt is very mysterious. Is the door liquid? Was she liquid? Why is she naked? Why is the door in the floor of an empty warehouse? There’s got to be a good story there.

Please link to your creations in the comments. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

I realized these Monstrum videos are also historical so they could be Peril of the Real in a way.

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3 thoughts on “Oct. 18 Prompts: Fear of the Living Dead Trespasser

  1. Laura De Bernardi

    Trespass

    Ghosts lay tracks across the floor
    there’s nothing there
    but the wood pulsates
    bears witness to an incursion
    of no good intent

    Police cannot wrestle
    with what is there not there
    criminals evade who are clever
    who know to seem
    what they are not

    Ghosts lay tracks across minds
    there’s nothing there
    but synapses shiver, dendrites quiver
    there has been a trespass
    so much is known

    Police cannot prove
    the not seen, the not heard
    there are no witnesses
    only sly ghosts, knowing
    grinning triumphant

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