Dracula

by Sandro D. Fossemò

                                                 (Translated from Italian to English)

I felt the pangs for blood.

At midnight,

in nocturnal Transylvania,

I rose from the tomb.

In the gloom

of my castle

I spread my black cloak

and took nefarious flight

in the dark and starry sky.

I spied the town

with its vain and solitary lights

blinking in the cold night.

How I then loathed

that electrical,

mechanical sight!

There was no blood

in the veins of those automatons.

I hung alone in that void

and in that death.

In fury I flapped

the dusky cloak!

I flew away, with haste,

towards a distant

and solitary moon,

warm and burning bright.
GOTHIC  HALLOWEEN POEMS