Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…maybe even with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, C is for … Can’t help but go dark. I don’t know why, but this poem went to a more horror place than I was expecting. The prompt was a “Ghost Line” where you use a given line from a poem as your first line, then write your poem jumping off that line and go back and delete the line you started with. And this is what happened today:

Listen

We all do it, we can’t help
walking on bones, creaking
over skulls crushed
into earth’s soil, enriching loam.

Thousands lie buried beneath
cities, towns, streets, houses,
mouths open in silent screams
help us rest, yet we stride above

heedless among unmarked graves,
pulling life from death to feed wiggling
worms, stroking roots in a passion
of ghostly ardor. We pause,

in the silence, tilt ear to ground,
strain to hear the slithering
spirits whisper, we are here;
We will wait.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter C.