Lydia Lukidis' #FallWritingFrenzy 2022

Here is my entry to the #FallWritingFrenzy contest!

Halloween- Credit: Samantha Hurley / Burst

The King’s Minions

By Emily Durant

The Pumpkin King stood in a field, in the night

Foreseeing the terror, the screams, and the fright

He patiently fitted his pieces together

He carved a crude smile and took note of the weather

His time had arrived for that savage desire

He lit out o’er the field, and within him, a fire

But the crows in the sky circled ‘round him with greed

They perched on his arms and they pecked at his seed

They soiled his head and disfigured his features

The Pumpkin King schemed how to handle these creatures

So next, when they landed, he used his stick hands

To encircle their legs with two stiff, knotted bands

He bound the crows to him with string as a shackle

Named one of them Caw and the other one Cackle

With the pestering avians at his command,

The nightmarish evening could go on as planned

He pushed through the field like a menacing plow

With no fear of the birds—

They worked for him now.