August 10th, 2025
Winner: Weekly Poems Contest #7
by Joseph C. Ogbonna
Midnight comes with the stillness
and quietness of a graveyard.
The tombs are opened, and the ghosts
of the dead are exhumed.
The cricket makes its usual high pitched
chirp. Its chirping sound allays my fears,
when I hear the stalking shadows of the
ungodly hour right behind me.
The chirping cricket gives me a sense
of the company I desire at such an hour.
An hour of the unseen poltergeist
that torments me with insomnia.
It's a long night, but at dawn,
it becomes clear that my mind
was playing tricks on me.
Biography of the Poet
Joseph C. Ogbonna is a prolific poet from Nigeria.
He has published very widely in magazines, anthologies, and online.
Joseph resides in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.
Keywords: fear, fright, spirits
Previously Published in Weekly Poems:
"The Body Is a Library of Grief" by Steven Bruce
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