720 : The Meeting

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #166) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are: 

dark, praying, tarot, dancing, seduce, creature,

gun, plague, penny, blood, levitate, dreadful, kiss

The Meeting

It was a normal meeting:

Hats and coats hung up,

Tables and chairs arranged,

Drinks distributed,

A pentangle drawn in blood…

But today would be different

Very, very different.

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The room went dark

The odd red spark;

The creatures vile


Who dribbled bile;

The serpent’s hiss

The sulph’rous kiss;

The dreadful smell

Of pits from Hell;

The dancing souls,

The flaming poles;

The tarot cards,

The cutting shards;

The naked fawns

Seduced on lawns;

Levi-tated

Corpses mated;

Souls, if any,

For a penny;

Palms well greased,

Plagues released;

The faithful sing

A praying ring;

No guns repel

The team from Hell.

But lights disperse

This demon curse —

Once comes the sun

The party's done

And so they went,

To parliament.

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And so it was, 

Dear reader,

The quietest Liberal* 

Party room meeting

In many a year.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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*In the Australian sense,

Liberal = Conservative = Republican.

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