PAD Challenge, Day 6

Silly mortal,

you cannot hide

from the demons
you created.

So run, flee.

We sail on the wind

of your nightmares
and laugh with

the cries torn

from your throat.
Do not doubt,

you have carried yourself away.


Today's prompt was to write an ekphrastic poem, defined as "Poetry that imitates, describes, critiques, dramatizes, reflects upon, or otherwise responds to a work of nonliterary art, especially the visual." Poetic Asides (the source of this delightful, infernal challenge) provided two paintings. I chose Flight of the Witches by Francisco de Goya.