The October Editor's Pick Poet is D.J. Tyrer
CONFRONTATION
Cast off shackles of earthliness
Soar free through the astral field
Starlit illumination
The celestial chorus describes your fate
Through the triple test
A provocation, a proof
The citadel, glorious sight!
A golden tower, truth-bearing centre
Enter, pause, reflect
The citadel reflects back
Face the final guardian
So familiar
Face your inverse self
That last challenge is you yourself
THE TOMB
Final carving
Defaced
Name erased
In the darkness of the tomb
Last psychic anchor gone
No longer alive in the Duat
A soul evaporates
In later ages
We might question
Did that Egyptian ever exist at all?
THIEF
Dressed in black
No flashlight
He prises a window open
Slips inside
Moving softly
He creeps along the hall
Feels his way
Carefully
Then without a sound
The darkness consumes him
And he’s never seen again
GANGSTALKING
Paranoid delusions
The diagnosis of even those who know you
You even come to doubt yourself
Strangers follow, stare
Unnoticed by those around you
Unseen presences in your home
Playing poltergeist games
Stealing from you
Taunting you
Terrifying
Yet so unreal
Impossible
Doubt your sanity
Yet certain clues indicate otherwise
Independent verification of your suffering
Could it all be real?
Too preposterous to be a lie
Too bizarre to be the truth
Confirmation implies reality
Despite seeming unreality
It cannot all be in the mind
But is any of it real?
Could it all be real?
Ask yourself these questions
Whatever the answer you are violated
Madman
Or
Victim
Can the CIA really pull this off
Or
Is all this just
Paranoid delusions?
D.J. Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, was placed second in the 2015 Data Dump Award for Genre Poetry, and has been published in The Rhysling Anthology 2016, issues of Cyaegha, Frostfire Worlds, The Horror Zine, Illumen, Outposts of Beyond, Scifaikuest, Sirens Call, Star*Line, Tigershark and The Yellow Zine, and online at Grievous Angel, Lonesome October, and Three Drops from a Cauldron, as well as releasing several chapbooks, such as The Tears of Lot-49. The echapbook One Vision is available from Tigershark Publishing’s website.