Malingee the Bush Ghost (I.P.)

Gold cherry

By White Dwarf

Tue, 28 Oct 2014
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7 comments
 

Malingee click clacks

Skip skrip skrape

Stone on stone clip clops

Two burning peepers pip peeping

 

Knees of rock that knock

Stay away from Malingee’s mound

Hollowed bones and hoarded

Furs feather and stones

 

Malingee’s warning

Click clack it echos back

In the bush whip whack

Stay away death is near

 

Whipped rock rustle crack

A stones throw thrown

Too late too late

Malingee is here

Certificate PG
Poem
Poetry
Horror
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is brilliant - I thought you said you had a block??

 

Submitted by White Dwarf on

Haha Thanks so much.

I sat down to write a story about that Malingee monster – and this poem fell out.  Oops.

 

I might still do the short story.

 

Glad you liked it. 

 

 

Submitted by Starfish Girl on

This builds up so well, skipping along with menace.

Lindy

Submitted by White Dwarf on

Hi Starfish Girl.

Thanks :D

Aboriginal culture is full of fascinating stories begging for appropriation by the white man. 

Is your name from the book by Athena Villaverde? YAY bizarro
fiction.

 

Submitted by MS on

Great poem, love the sing song feel to it, like a dark nursery rhyme.

 

 

Submitted by White Dwarf on

Thanks MS I love creepy nursery rhymes and things like Grimm's fairy tales.

 

Submitted by Bee on

Brilliant. I love the word-play.

Bee