Haiku of the Week

Our theme this month is a zombie spring.

shattered honeycomb
beehive mentality
zombie swarm

Haiku of the Week

Our theme this month is legendary creatures and I saved my fave for last.

moldy rotten cheese
dullahan’s midnight ride
a headless horseman

Haiku of the Week

Our theme this month is love and death.

a hint of red rose
love, a deadly poison
til death do us part

Haiku of the Week

Happy Valentine’s Day! Our theme this month is love and death.

Monthly Haiku Corner – February

Happy February, everyone! Our theme this month is love and death.

together with death
vows of eternal love
hand and hand, we walk

Haiku of the Week

Our theme this month has been winter gothic.

A look ahead at February’s theme, love and death.

a death in autumn
winter keeps lovers apart
hearts reunited

Poe Sundays

On Sundays, we celebrate the Master of Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe

Fun Fact: Readers of the day were so horrified by the story’s violence, they complained to the editor of the Messenger, the first magazine to publish Berenice. Poe himself later removed 4 paragraphs of text, thus, many early publishings are missing the detailed heinous act of Poe’s story.

Poe was angry at being forced to self-censor his own work, believing a story should be judged solely by how many copies it sold.

You can read Berenice in its entirety here:
https://poestories.com/read/berenice

Poe Sundays

On Sundays, we celebrate the Master of Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe

Fun Facts: Poe himself had an obsessive fear of being buried alive do to catslepsy, a state where someone occasionally falls completely still and is unable to move or speak. There were a few cases of it happening during Poe’s lifetime that made the papers. No doubt those stories left a huge impression on the author.