Today’s poem was inspired by the will-o’-the-wisp word which is a creature that I used to pit against my players in Dungeons and Dragons on a few occasions, everything else fit so well with this theme that although the poem is very much like a role playing story line from a fantasy novel I enjoyed putting it together.  Thanks to my twitter followers for the 13 random words (in blue) provided today:

@Rinari (elusive), @stnmoon (Search), @Zorlone (meandering), @Oneunder2001 (teleprompter), @jrgarralda (will-o’-the-wisp), @blm03 (winner), @CarlsJr (Bourbon), @lejonprime (phrenetic), @viktorwalters (buer)
@R_Arblaster (congratulating), @BlazingMinds (growth), @nipplelicious (enhance), @JessicaSieghart (pepper)

willowisp

Hunt For The Glowing Orb

In the darkening murky swamp
Meandering through muck, the search continues
A most elusive thing once spotted
Magnificent and haunting to see

A single glowing orb emitting voices
A mirage or a phantom you had thought
Echoing the same words over and over
As if reading from a teleprompter

People thought you were crazy
Hallucinations produced by too much bourbon
You knew the truth of what was out there
You continue your hunt and will be a winner

They would be congratulating you
For finding and bringing this creature
Or foul Buer spirit back with you
Which would enhance your reputation

Then you got your wish and it was a curse
The soft blue glow rising from the murky water
The murmoring and speech garbled and venomous
Your heart beat at a phrenetic pace

Your senses assaulted as if reeling from a spicy pepper
A strange tentacle erupts from the glowing orb
It grazes your shoulder and you shriek in pain
As a blue growth starts forming on your skin

Flesh decaying rapidly as your thoughts fade
This single obsession was your fate
All you can think in your final horror
Is that you found the will-o’-the-wisp

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

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I am a dedicated father and husband who works an IT job during the day and has as passion for blogging and poetry. I have been writing poems for more than twenty years and I write at least 1 new poem or haiku per day and publish it on this blog since it started in September 2008.

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