‘A Nightmare’ is a poem born from an actual nightmare of mine, transferred into a poem through automatic writing.
The art is ‘The Nightmare’ by Henry Fuseli, one of my favourite paintings
Hope you enjoy!
A Nightmare
my head hits the common room desk and
are you okay some people ask
they strike me as
some friends
and i
i start to bleed and it reaches
my forehead before my head
reaches the common room desk
again with intoxicating impact
and it isn’t even mine
before i bled but now i bleed
from head to chin to neck too
i smile
are you okay
i laugh
and blood anoints the common room desk and
i fall through a door and
i fall down the stairs and
are you okay
the fool i
i laugh but can’t see
as blood reaches down my throat
and i am in the library
and i rush in to the library
and the woman says
you can’t come in here
and there are men in suits
and i scream
i’m bleeding
Read more poetry here.
And more horror pieces here.
The Nightmare is one of my favorite paintings too!
I appreciated the rhythm to this poem. It has Poe feel to it with the repetition and the bleeding speaker laughing as people ask if he is okay. 😉
Poe is a big inspiration of mine so it’s not surprising! It’s also a bit worrying that I was dreaming stuff like this back in Sixth Form, but we write what we know