The August Vampeer: Narrative Verse

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

The August Vampeer

I

I am the august Vampeer,
In my coffin I appear,
At the finish of the day,
When the sun sinks on its way,
And its rule gives to the moon,
Then it is that lovers swoon,
And the windows leave unlatched,
Hoping for a midnight match:
What they get is me instead,
At the corner of the bed,
Garbed in my d…