THE FOREST GREEN: The Skeleton Crew    
 The Skeleton Crew4 comments
Monday, October 6th 2008, by Marissa A Spencer

The Skeleton Crew

The Skeleton Crew

A weary crew worked the Northern Mine
From day and night ; from Nine to Nine.
Working the darkest, deepest, hard-hewn hole
Loading that blackened rock called coal

They descended each shift with haggard faces
Into the earthen bowels and curs-ed spaces
Rising exhausted at the change of shift
Clanking to the surface in a flimsy lift

A rumbling shook the mine down below
Breaking the lift they lost every soul
Thirteen went to their death that night
Though rescuers tried with all their might

They went down with pulleys and ropes
The whole town full of prayers and hopes
But deep water filled the Northern Mine
So they covered it up; made it a shrine

The deep water flows to the lake nearby
If you listen at night, you can hear them cry
The water remembers those souls so lost
Skeletons into the dead waters tossed

I saw them myself and I heard them scream
For a moment I thought it was an evil dream
The water was black like the coal they drilled
Reliving the moment when they were killed.

Looking into the water they beckoned me
With hollowed eyes and arms did plea
A bony hand reached from up the deep
I recoiled and fled as I heard them weep

Never will I venture to that lake at night
I may not recover from such a terrible fright
For each night I hear their horrible screams
Haunted forever by their skeleton dreams.

© October 6, 2008 Marissa A Spencer



[< Back] [THE FOREST GREEN]

Category:  

4 comments

7 Oct 2008 @ 00:37 by Debbie @207.212.209.218 : The Skeleton Crew
I guess that would take the fun out of going swimming late at night.  


7 Oct 2008 @ 04:03 by skookum : yeah no kidding!
that brings a WHOLE new meaning to "skinny" dipping!!! lol  


12 Oct 2008 @ 03:41 by a-d : Gee whizzzz.....
that is sooo spooky, Skooki...hehehhe.... Where do you get "these things" from, eh?... you're not "like this" ...are you ; )??????.... *!*....BTW , is it a real life accident you are describing or Mining acc's in general?  


12 Oct 2008 @ 07:08 by skookum : i must tune into the
universal consciousness... that and I have read lots of spooky mysteries and stories. lol I don't recall any mining accidents...no one in my family were miners.. go figure. thanks for reading!  


Your Name:
Your URL: (or email)
Subject:       
Comment:
For verification, please type the word you see on the left:


Other entries in
Sunday, February 7th 2010: a lost halloween poem.. the Halloween Feast
Monday, October 15th 2007: The Phantom 13
Monday, December 18th 2006: The Hobgoblin of Hatchet Hill
Monday, October 31st 2005: On Hallow's Eve
Saturday, October 29th 2005: In the Gallyrump by the Windygroo
Thursday, October 27th 2005: In Grampy's House
Wednesday, October 26th 2005: Hollow's Fright
Thursday, October 13th 2005: Hallowe'en Feast
Sunday, October 31st 2004: Hallowe'en
Tuesday, May 4th 2004: The Haunted Looking Glass



[< Back] [THE FOREST GREEN] [PermaLink]?