Wednesday, August 19, 2009

A New Cinquain, Theme Thursday!

Presents
for you right now
a continuation
of former post Rooftop Cinquain
enjoy:


I froze
As some devil-
-Ish feeling like fingers
Brushed over my skin into my
Innards.


Thru the
window stood the
evil menacing 'goyle
so 'twas no escape out that way
knew I.



And just
as I felt my
deepest despair, the cloud
cover broke and a ray melted
my fear.




Still yet,
cautious I turned
to flee this hellish hole
just to see that light had made my
Shadow!





Evil
as this house was,
a thing so benign as
a Shadow now became a threat
to all.


I did
scramble away
finding the staircase whole
encountering no resistance
this time.


Egad!
For from behind
I felt a wisp of dusk,
and as I set my foot upon
the tread...


My dark
doppelganger
materialized there;
so tripped I did upon my own
dark foot.


Falling,
I reach-ed out
felt vainly to the rail,
tho the banister was absent-
oh woe!

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tom, great continuation! And the shadows are a riot! Happy TT :)

Harnett-Hargrove said...

Tom, This is so very wonderful. I love the topsy shadows and confusion of....you have to have light to see your shadow side. -Jayne

Tess Kincaid said...

Oh, this is fabulous. Your drawings made me laugh out loud! I like how if you're really familiar with them, you call them "goyles".

Brian Miller said...

ah, amazing...the faster you run the closer he follows...doodles, great as always.

Lisa Ursu said...

"My darkdoppelganger materialized there;so tripped I did upon my own dark foot." I love that.
Great continuation indeed!
(is Festive going to return?)

Baino said...

Haha . .I love your shit. It's really off the wall and the drawings are very, very cool. I wish I could be as creative. I'm feeling very wan . .or is that one . . or won . .ok I'll go now. I'm feeling a little like the shadow of my former self.

tony said...

To Go Beyond A Shadow IS GOOD! No Doubt!

Tom said...

Thanks Jayne, great site, yours.
Yes Willow, i have the 'Goyles over for hotdogs and beer every tuesday night.
Brian...he better keep up, I'm not stopping (right away)
Subby...shadows, as you proved, can be a lot of fun.
Liza...I now take requests! But I hadn't thought of Festive..will have to go back and look her up.
Baino...get well soon.
Tony...how you twist words up so!

Anonymous said...

Oh no! What happens next??

I love your drawings. In fact I love it all!

Candie said...

Wicked!Love it!:)

Not For Jellyfish said...

Love the drawings!

Alan Burnett said...

The drawings are wonderful, and so are the words. "Egad! For from behind
I felt a wisp of dusk" Great stuff

ArtSparker said...

The goblins will get you if you don't watch out!

Betsy Brock said...

Uh oh...couldn't the banister have had a shadow you could grab?

Loved this...and the drawings were just great! :)

Wings1295 said...

Great post! And I love the little toons, too!

Anonymous said...

I love those drawings!!!!

Gabby said...

Hehehe. I love your creativity and your drawings. All very cute!

Kris McCracken said...

I like that last one very much!

The Clever Pup said...

This is great.

I remember seeing a movie with Kim Darby in which evil little creatures lived under her stairs and finally dragged her under. Creepy.

xxx said...

Wonderful... love it :)

my first visit here and what a treat ...

best wishes
Ribbon

New Yorker wannabes said...

Your posts amaze me everytime!

xoxo

The Clever Pup said...

I could trip over my own shadow. Good poem-y thing.