F. P. Dorchak

Speculative Fiction (New Weird) Author

Spooky

McColloms Cemetery, Brighton, New York

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McColloms Cemetery, Upstate New York
McColloms Cemetery, Upstate New York

For the past week, I’ve been in waaay upstate New York (about an hour south of Montréal), visiting family, and while there stopped by a small cemetery I’ve been wanting to stop by for literally many, many years, and never had. I’ve driven past this cemetery for so long, both as a high school kid on the after-school athletic bus to and from athletic “meets,” or on the after-school “late bus” dropping everyone one off after after-school sports practices (more likely this), as well as an adult visiting family.

I’ve kept from inserting a comma between the “m” and “s” in this post, since there’s not one on the cemetery’s sign.

McColloms Cemetery is a private cemetery (which I did not know at the time—and no one came out to meet us while we were there), located on Route 30, 6.3 miles north of the intersection with Route 86, in the town of Brighton, NY, which was first settled around 1815.

One of the headstones is for Michael Samburgh (1959 – 1988). I knew him in high school, and found his picture in my year book the year before I graduated.  Rest in peace, Micheal.

The Mummy Trilogy

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Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff (Photo credit: twm1340)

That was fun!

In the space of a week, I came up with three poems tied to my favorite monster, the Egyptian mummy. Though I had an immediate idea for the first two, I had nothing on the how I was going to end it all. After I posted those first two, it was like—great, I’ve written myself into a corner. Now, what?

I like how they came out, though may work on them some more off and on. It was extemporaneous, and a fun exercise for a fun event. I don’t fancy myself a poet by any stretch, but like to play around with it every now and then—but do try to keep some semblance of poetic rhyme in place. I’m sure the more professional poets can pick it all apart, but such is life!

And finding “just so” Egyptian graphics was tough. Sometimes new graphics popped up after having first searched for them, on the WP “Recommendations,” like the cool Karloff image above. I was willing to pay for some of them, but I couldn’t find any that allowed for that, once one hit me just so (there was a mummy head image I liked from a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea site (scroll down some to “I cut myself“), but I couldn’t find a way to pay for it, didn’t look free, and contacting and waiting for a response just wasn’t an option on my timeline). I don’t pull just any graphic from a site and use it, that’s copyright infringement, so I use my own stuff, free stuff picked from the web by WP, or pay (e.g., the graphic I used for “By The Light of the Moon,” I payed for—isn’t it cool?).

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed creating them, and thanks for stopping by!

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Unbound

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Tortured and aching

Relentless my quest

The bidding of another

Endless unrest!

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As I shuffle and I let

This blood that I spill

Stronger I grow

More powerful my will

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I cannot continue!

Unrelenting murder!

My captor has controlled me

But this time no longer!

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He commands, he directs

I do, I turn

But this time is different

His dominion I spurn!

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He shouts and invokes

Fights and he strikes

But in the end crippled

My might is what frights

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I dispatch as I have

To all dead before him

Then turn to a flame

And insert my forelimb

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I cannot return

Now free from possession

To once again anguish

In my ancient obsession

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I give up my being

Once and for all

By my own hand do it

Oh, will of gods befall

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Free!

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I am released!

Into the afterlife fly

I find my true love

And in her arms

Die.

The Mummy Trilogy