A Reaping

Written By Catherine Knee

Some invitations cannot be refused.

AI Illustration for poem "A Reaping" by Catherine Knee. A cloaked Grim Reaper with sorrowful glowing eyes extends a skeletal hand beneath a dark moonlit sky as a distant bell tolls over a desolate landscape.

AI Artwork

A Reaping

 

A deep, dark, new-moon cowl

embraces the watching shadow.

As still as the last gasp of breath

trapped in the lungs of the dead,

he stands with hands enfolded.

 

Smoldering eyes of molten sorrow

search from the midnight gathers

of the Cape of Assembling Doom.

The welcoming hand extends

the imperious skeletal summons

 

The chime of a bell on the breeze

carries the sigh of a life, receding,

into the bosom of fearful euphoria.

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AI Declaration

AI was used solely to create the accompanying artwork.
No AI was used in the writing of this poem.

A Reaping is a poem by Catherine Knee exploring death, the Grim Reaper, mortality, dark fantasy and the mystery surrounding life's final journey.

Catherine Knee
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