Esther Racah Writer & Literary Blogger

Tag: haunted castle

  • Midnight Thorns

    Midnight Thorns

    Midnight thorns grew for each teardrop that stroked my face
    With a heart full of stitches and pins
    And for each memory, a mask of remembrance grew like a flower of death
    In a golden cage of betrayal and deception, I dwelled in utter solitude
    Faraway from the vulnerable and wicked sight of mortals

    At each instant, my expectations arose under the shape of lifeless trees
    No season and no hour differentiated the realm of midnight thorns
    A persistent aura of doom distinguished this gilded dungeon
    No sun was rising on the horizon
    Only the several moons dared to appear in all their splendour and dark emotionlessness

    My dwelling was a castle made of pure gold and decadence
    Amid an enchanted forest of malicious spirits and magic spells
    From each mirror, an unknown countenance emerged
    As if my reflection shifted with every passing instant

    Mystical fanfares and funeral laments wavered like otherworldly fragments of sorrow
    Echoing within the hollow walls of my golden dungeon
    Elegies without words hovered as mourning tributes to obliterated dreams
    The chandeliers wept waxen tears made of gold
    And all the chambers and hallways trembled beneath imperceptible footsteps

    I strolled in mourning robes, carrying secrets and grief
    I followed the trail of dark shadows, finding no merriment
    I had lost myself and all my hopes were obliterated
    Everything was buried beneath the ashes of my forsaken dreams
    And the shadows had become friends of my own melancholy

    The glooms were the reflection of my own melancholy
    And all the mirrors were portraits watching quietly with their empty eyes
    No sound beckoned my name, and no aid came from the darkness
    There I was surrounded by the heady perfume of ancient roses and antiquity dust
    I ceded to midnight thorns, the venom of demise and drama.
    Elisabetta

  • The Castle of Stone

    The Castle of Stone

    The castle of stone arose majestically amid the hills where shadows lay,
    The castle stood beneath the cloudy sky,
    Its towers stretched like skeletal hands,
    Grasping at clouds that shift like sands.

    A mournful wind, it softly moaned,
    Through broken halls and cracked old stones,
    The walls were adorned with dust and time,
    Once echoes of a distant chime.

    The ivy crawled in twisted veins,
    A silent witness to the pains,
    That haunted these chambers where darkness crept,
    Where secrets bled, and phantoms wept.

    The moonlight spilt like liquid frost,
    Illuminating souls long lost,
    Their whispers drifted on chilling air,
    The dead’s lament, a ghostly prayer.

    In shadowed corners, eyes unseen,
    Watched over things that might have been,
    A shiver stirred within the night,
    The stones remembered, felt, and frightened.

    The floorboards groaned with every step,
    As if they woke from ages slept,
    spectres formed where cold mist flowed,
    In passages like winding groves.

    The tapestries, though moths devoured,
    Portrayed some ancient, dreaded hour,
    Of blood and grief and fates unknown,
    Told in the silence of the stone.

    Above, the clock stroke one last chime,
    Its hand now stilled by death and time,
    A voice that echoed through the halls,
    And faded away like distant calls.

    A door ajar, a flickering light,
    It beckoned through the endless night,
    However, none may have passed who entered whole,
    Because here, the castle kept its toll.

    Its chambers stretched, labyrinth mazes,
    Where dawn will never pierce the haze,
    And those who sought to find a way,
    They went lost forever in its sway.

    The ancient hearth lay cold and bare,
    No fire shall ever kindle there,
    But ashes held the ghosts of flame,
    And laments echoed of a name.

    A name once carved on marble cold,
    Now weathered by the years untold,
    It faded as dust on twilight’s breath,
    A fleeting shadow kissed by death.

    The garden’s wrought with thorns and vines,
    Where roses once did twist and twine,
    Now black as pitch, they drooped and died,
    Beneath the starless, vacant sky.

    The heart of the castle of stone beat faint and slow,
    Its pulse a thrum from long ago,
    A relic of a world forgotten,
    Where life and death entwined and decayed.

    No mortal traces stirred the chilling gloom,
    The air grew stale as heavy doom,
    And time itself did seem to slow,
    As stone entombed, all that did grow.

    In this place where darkness reigned,
    The past’s despair forever stained,
    And every echo, every groan,
    Lived on within the castle of stone.
    Esther Elizabeth Racah

  • The Bride of Night

    The Bride of Night

    The bride of night hid beneath the veil of an endless night,
    A castle loomed in the dying light,
    Its spires clawing the storm-torn sky,
    Where whispers of forgotten souls still cry.

    The moon, a phantom, pale and weak,
    Hanged in the sky, too cold to speak,
    Its silver gaze fell hard on stone,
    Where shadows gathered, dark and alone.

    The wind it moaned through hollow halls,
    Brushing against the ancient walls,
    Each corner filled with a chilling dread,
    A monument to the long-lost dead.

    Within, a figure roamed the gloom,
    A spectre bound to eternal doom,
    Her eyes, once bright, were hollowed now,
    A crown of sorrow upon her brow.

    She wandered through forgotten rooms,
    Her footsteps were lost in the echoing tombs,
    Searching for a love long passed,
    A memory that time could never cast.

    The candles flickered, faded, and died,
    As shadows danced and serpents lay,
    While silence reigned in its darkest form,
    And dread became the only norm.

    In this castle, time froze still,
    A kingdom lost to an ancient will,
    Where love and hope had long decayed,
    And only shadows in sorrow stayed.

    So here she lingered, bound by fate,
    In this eternal, cursed estate,
    The queen of grief, the bride of night,
    Forever lost in endless blight.

    Her voice, a whisper carried by the wind,
    Calls out for a lover that fate rescinded.
    But the cold, dead halls returned no sound,
    Only silence reigned supreme where grief was crowned.

    The raven watched from its perch on high,
    A witness to the mournful sky,
    While the castle walls decayed and broke,
    As time devoured, all love’s mistakes.
    Esther Elizabeth Racah

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