Jack's Back...On An Unforgiving Night Like This... Poem by Shaun Cronick

Jack's Back...On An Unforgiving Night Like This...

Rating: 5.0


Again I walk a Whitechapel street,
Near where the Thames does flow.
Many fresh faces I shall greet,
In its darkness strewn with woe.

I've been away for a while,
Slowly killing time in hell.
Where the devil is my admirer,
And released me for doing well.

I return from beyond my grave,
You can't keep a good Jack down,
But in my case a truly bad one,
Stalking again in Whitechapel town.

Oh! It feels good to be back,
I will now put on a wicked show,
My tools always carried with me,
All guaranteed to make blood flow.

Cold steel instruments of death,
Feel natural in my tight grip.
Then I slip into dark character
As I tear, cut, slice and rip.

Feels good to be back in the game,
My tally demonically on the rise.
Beware inky black London streets,
That reveal a slashing surprise.

You all know what I do seek,
If ever forgotten a travesty.
An insult to crime's history,
And to my infamous legacy...

Hello my dear.
Good heavens you're alone.
On an unforgivingnight like this...

Monday, October 5, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: dark side,horror
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Shaun Cronick 18 October 2020

Thomas thanks for your comment and yes one of his letters to Scotland Yard was the infamous " From H e l l" one. And in the movie of the same name, when the late actor Ian Holm has in one scene normal eyes when talking then suddenly he has all black eyes is so chilling and memorable, the stuff of nightmares. For he's transformed in mid conversation into Jack. Thanks again Thomas and well done for today's Member Poem of the Day with your superb poem Preying At The Ten Bells.

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Dominic Windram 06 October 2020

A very wicked and most frightening poem Shaun. I really like the ending. I can only imagine what will happen next...aargh! It's definitely a fear inducing five from me.

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Deluke Muwanigwa 05 October 2020

Beautiful poem. Any relations with Jack the Ripper. Tech is here. We can do a DNA on PH

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