Autumn_Dreams
09-10-2004, 01:45 PM
Shivering
by Ella Riddle
There's something in the crying of hounds
Before the dawn's gray plight,
A sound that speaks of darker deeds
Before first yawn of light.
It gives me pause and quickened heart
To wake within confines
Of morning's bereavement, the last of bleak
And frantic barks and whines.
I'll not look out the window
To assess accusing tones,
But press my hands against my ears;
No screams, no rattled bones.
Relief will come with sun sublime,
With warmth, with burnished light.
But until then the hounds will howl,
And I shall hide from sight.
Copyright Ella Riddle 1998
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"In nightmares our screams are silent, yet all fallen angels hear us on their way down." --E. Riddle
"Preceding our dreams is silence; a pause in our mortality. -- E. Riddle"
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by Ella Riddle
There's something in the crying of hounds
Before the dawn's gray plight,
A sound that speaks of darker deeds
Before first yawn of light.
It gives me pause and quickened heart
To wake within confines
Of morning's bereavement, the last of bleak
And frantic barks and whines.
I'll not look out the window
To assess accusing tones,
But press my hands against my ears;
No screams, no rattled bones.
Relief will come with sun sublime,
With warmth, with burnished light.
But until then the hounds will howl,
And I shall hide from sight.
Copyright Ella Riddle 1998
http://www.thecorridors.com/banners/another_autumn_sig.jpg (http://www.thecorridors.com/frightmares.html)
"In nightmares our screams are silent, yet all fallen angels hear us on their way down." --E. Riddle
"Preceding our dreams is silence; a pause in our mortality. -- E. Riddle"
The Corridors: (http://www.thecorridors.com) Where Halloween is Forever