WOW - Pardon me while I throw up - That can only come from one place - He wears red with a tail and horns. lf

The poem has it all ... from the depths of fear to that light of hope and faith.. nicely done!!

Myrna

first off, excellent poem and much-needed message for all of us in this time. image is amazing. sweet sleep and a rest from all the tangled terror. Dawn

W O W...what can I say...W O W!!!!!!!! An incredible poem and image, very well presented, Eileen!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Holy Moly this is one helluva nightmare poem...excellent work Eileen!!

Love Tinka

Eileen,

Our dreams - more specifically - your dreams, have the power to shock others into waking up. I fear your beast of blood has escaped your dreamscape and wanders freely in our fundamentalist forests of ideology.

Hurry up and wake yourself! We need some reason and some sanity!

Peace and understanding,

B

You wrote horrors of a nightmare quite perfectly. Thanks and GBQ
Abdi-=Noor

Sounds like a hellish dream one would quickly want to turn around - and what a picture!

well done, eileen! vivid and engaging.
peace,
carolyn

Perfect image of a nightmare...
This works well as a pure Gothic Poem...
As it has all the elements of an Edgar Allen Poe...
Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work...

you've encapsulated the essence of the nightmare festering in the womb of the psyche ... great images ...

Awesome looking tree and I didn't lmow they existed so I thank you for educating me with the pic and knowledge and for the awesome pen...you have the rhythm and the vision to turn this into a legendary write. You go Sister woman!
Love,
Susan

This is a very funny looking tree. I guess we all see different things in this. I will have to try harder to see something into this.

Very intriguing write and photo.!

Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)

Wow Robert, I've pondered that grotesque growth but never saw the womans face until you mentioned it and I see it now and that is one heck of a theory about it being Adam and Eve in the tree of knowledge. Thank you for pointing it out. Fantastic thought!...Eileen

I saw a wolf face because it's called a wolf tree;-) Couldn't make out the rest of it.

very interesrting, looking at the oddly shaped growth on the side of the tree, i can imagine seeing a man. Visible are his knees, both left and right, he is kneeling in a near fetal position.. His right arm is curled against his chest, as if to be in huddle from the cold. His left arm is draped beneath the right, with its hand sheilding the apendix area. Slumped or shrouded across his back, there is a woman. You can clearly see her face, and the tresses of her hair that fade back like the great wings of an angel across her back. Her face rest atop the mans head, over the mans face. And both appear to be sharing the burden of an enormous size. It is as though the weight of the world is upon their shoulders. Could it be that this is Adam and Eve, entombed in the Tree of Knowlegde, and the burden they share are the Sins of the World?

You delve into the hellish synthesis and emerge from the depths into the arms of your angelic spirit. Another great write from an accomplished poet.

Dang, this one creeped me out! Great piece Eileen! Michelle

I will protect thee fair maiden...Rufuz the wonder dog

Eileen

Sounds like a descent into unholy hell and back again, and has a modern day synthesis with current world events, that are disturbing the harmony of the world, and polarizing the spirit of the Den..

Sad times that we are enduring..

Even Mel Gibson has gone madcap...

Love

Peter

What a write! You have described the essense of the nightmare. When they are vivid and threatening, you can, as you wrote, smell the blood and gore even as you sleep. It is these kind of dreams that awake you in a sweat-saturated bed.