Did He Rise Again?<\/p>\n
A crimson rose was growing on the grave.
\nWhat did it symbolize? I was afraid.
\nNext day, a coal black rose joined it.
\nI felt dread in my stomach like a pit.
\nFriends said \u201cWho is buried there?\u201d
\n\u201cThere is no grave marker anywhere?\u201d
\nI didn\u2019t have a clue about this.
\n\u201cAsk the graveyard keeper with the lisp\u201d
\nI asked him and his face grew pale.
\n\u201cDon\u2019t ask about that one.\u201d He said with a wail.
\n\u201cWhy not?—- Please tell me more.\u201d
\nHe looked like he wanted to run out the door.
\n\u201cThat is the grave of a known grave robber.\u201d
\n\u201cHe lived in the scary house up on Hobbler.\u201d
\n\u201cIt is said he was creating a monster.\u201d
\n\u201cLike Dr. Frankenstein. It caused a stir.\u201d
\n\u201cFrom the body parts of the recently buried.\u201d
\n\u201cIt was a gory time. And pretty hairy.\u201d
\n\u201cSome say his monster killed him.\u201d
\n\u201cOthers say the monster is buried within.\u201d
\n\u201cYou know how the rumors grow.\u201d
\n\u201cIt all happened some time ago.\u201d
\n\u201cWho planted those roses on the grave?\u201d
\n\u201cWhat roses? Oh no!! Run, he is leaving his grave!!\u201d
\nWith that, the grounds keeper took off like a bat.
\nHe didn\u2019t even take the time to get his hat.
\n\u201cWhat the hell?\u201d we all said.
\nThat night, we were afraid to go to bed.
\nThe next day, there was nothing there.
\nNo roses, dirt somewhat disturbed, but bare.\u201d
\nWe watched the papers for any news.
\nNothing came of it. Pick and choose.
\nJust urban legends at their best.
\nIt was the holiday of when he was laid to rest.<\/p>\n
——————————————R.W. Johnson—–(2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did He Rise Again? A crimson rose was growing on the grave. What did it symbolize? I was afraid. Next day, a coal black rose joined it. I felt dread in my stomach like a pit. Friends said \u201cWho is buried there?\u201d \u201cThere is no grave marker anywhere?\u201d I didn\u2019t have a clue about this. … Continue reading Did He Rise Again?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-free-bird-poetry","category-horror","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}