Good morning to all, and welcome to the month of October. I am super excited to start this new month with my newest dark poem "The Nuckelavee" the first dark poem in a four poem series this month.
For those of you that are not familiar with this mythological creature it is a horrendous sea demon that is categorized under Orcadian mythology which combines human and equine elements together. It is one of the worst demons known in Norse mythology, because of the terrors that it caused in Scotland's Northern Isles.
One October morning
When the sun was beginning to rise.
The smell of burning seaweed
Filled the foggy skies.
Out of the fog a creature emerged
Embellished with hideousness.
It was a skinless, hairless,
Horse fused rider beast.
You could see ebony blood
Coursing through its veins,
And sinewy muscles straining
with each movement in pain.
The beast's arms were so lengthy
They dragged across the turf.
As its breath released a toxin
That spread across the earth.
Its head was three times the size
Of an average human being,
And his evil smile was composed
Of a horrific rage.
In the center of its only eye
There stood a red flame.
The smell of burning weed
Awoke the beast and is to blame.
The beast traveled to find the place
Where the seaweed was lit a flame
To give it justice, though it was deceased,
And give its anger some relief.
written by Evelyn Creon
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