Blaskó – 15th October 2026

~ shaun tenzenmen 
the tick
tick
clicking
creaking
on the stairs
...
three incessant brides
seductive
and cold
count steps
into a darkened cellar
strewn with time's dead flowers
and déjà vu
...
tick
tick
click

Shared with dVerse Poetics, taking Bauhaus’ Bela Lugosi’s Dead as inspiration and borrowing the line ‘strewn with time’s dead flowers’. Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó was Bela Lugosi’s full name.
Prompt: Write from inside an abandoned mansion after midnight. There is no obvious ghost—yet every room suggests someone has only just left.

Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Give People The Benefit Of The Doubt

Everything turns on your assumptions
Are you generous and forgiving
Or with malice and presumptions?
Which makes for calmer living?

19 thoughts on “Blaskó – 15th October 2026”

    1. Thanks Sanaa 🙏 The sparse creepiness of the music helped with the aural tone of the writing. I used to scare the shit out of my friends playing this song in my bedroom with only a candle for light and sometimes weird things would happen, or so we imagined.

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  8. Great atmospheric piece – a striking metaphor the image of the ‘three incessant brides / seductive / and cold’  is particularly arresting. It’s reminiscent of the Fates, combining allure with existential dread 🙌

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