Screaming Mannequins Poem by Marieta Maglas

Eyes huddled in fear,

That paralyzing fear in front of bullets mercilessly sprayed,

Deep sprayed by the cruelty, which must be fed up

With victims,

Those defenseless victims of hate,

That dreadful hate, which is fed up with love

As well as

Pleasure is fed up with pain,

That extreme pain, which embellishes the madness,

That round madness like a cold moisturized rosy-red,

Rosy-red ring-shaped patches, a giant Quincke swelling

And a boisterous cooling noisy breathing,

Snorting breath like groaning a song,

A love song for the dance of death,

A painful death for the warm puppets,

Beautiful puppets becoming cold wax mannequins,

Bleak mannequins screaming in their red rain

Of feelings,


Red feelings color their sad moments,

Cool moments of winter fires

In caves of shadows.

Poem by Marieta Maglas