Lilith’s Midnight Walks
Okay, so I wrote an October Poem ….
Lilith’s Midnight Walks
Banished in the disenchantment of Eden’s twilight
The dark demon Lilith’s
Once iridescent wings
Now dull as charcoal
Flutter in the darkness of time.
My room––her skirring ground
Where time is a frozen breath––
Holds her suspended
In her silken helix spun of spidery glue.
I am her haunted house
Teeming with the ghosts of all loved and lost.
The creaking floors
My bones
Resonate with Lilith’s midnight walks.
This seductress of thought and will
Brings chaos to my nights.
I am her haunted house
The oxygen in my lungs
Draws her trickster,
El Broosha to crawl out from the desolate wilderness
Of night’s monsters
And search the frigid corridors
My body my home
Thieving breath to make her own.
Lilith, the lurking wind spirit of ancient storms
Drifts in the inky shadows of my room
Wings aquiver
Rasping inhalations
She reeks of decaying flesh
Eden’s rotting apple.
One final deep breath
The drawn-out hissing cry of a screech owl
Lilith, rebel of dominion
Lunges
Diving from her netting
She plucks my soul
Condemning me to doom.
I am Lilith’s haunted house
––and she wants this room.
Mindy Meyers-Halleck 2026
October 25, 2026 at 9:45 pm
Wow – this is indeed suitable for Halloween. It made me shiver.
Great use of imaging.
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October 25, 2026 at 9:58 pm
Thank you, coming from you, that means a good deal.
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