It is Saturday and again it’s time for Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Our host LindaGHill said:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “collect.” Use the word “collect” any way you’d like. Have fun!
The Collecter.

For the longest time the child had collected bones and dead insects.
Body parts she cut from animals so she could learn how they worked .
Not dead animals the organs had to be alive and pumping
Warm and growing, breathing , flowing.
It had started with a bone collection but she had needed to have more knowledge.
She collected spiders and insects from the hedge .
Soon cats and dogs went missing , they’d disappear?
Her mother shut her eyes to what she guessed, keeping silent her fear.
The child spent less and less time at home
She preferred to be in the woods foraging on her own.
Then the odd baby disappeared from it’s cot
The need for learning was all that mattered to the swot.
One day she was gone, she did not return home
The child had decided it was time to roam.
With necklaces of eyes and ears and trinkets made of bone
She traveled the world her skills to practice and hone.

bone collector.
Lock your windows , close your doors
She is out there crossing fields and moors
She is bigger now and stronger
Only harvests what she needs, keeps her donors alive longer
What made the child want to collect this way
The thirst for knowledge one might say.
Or maybe pure evil invaded her whole
She was such a beauty in body but not in soul.
Beware when out on day or night
Beware those eyes so angelic a sight .
Run from the clink of bone and tooth
She will not spare you and that is the truth!
She is only out to collect
So lock your doors and your loved ones protect.

May 29, 2021 @ 13:03:22
A magnum opus!
May 29, 2021 @ 13:28:50
Just a little light bedtime reading 💜
May 29, 2021 @ 13:31:58
Excellent Willow. Creepy!
May 29, 2021 @ 13:34:07
Thank you Di 💜
May 29, 2021 @ 13:33:19
Yikes. A very chilling take, willow!
May 29, 2021 @ 14:04:57
Did you lock the door 😜
May 29, 2021 @ 14:10:18
Of course 😂
Wouldn’t want to tempt her!
May 29, 2021 @ 14:11:34
Absolutely not 💜
May 29, 2021 @ 14:58:14
A gruesome story
May 29, 2021 @ 13:31:04
Yes indeed 😊
May 29, 2021 @ 14:01:36
😱
May 29, 2021 @ 14:03:24
😉😉😉😉
May 29, 2021 @ 14:03:33
🤩
May 29, 2021 @ 17:08:25
This is a terrific poem, Willow.
May 29, 2021 @ 17:15:52
Thank you Robbie it’s one of my favourites.
May 29, 2021 @ 19:15:03
Yikes. It reminds me of some of the crime series I have watched recently. She’s a scary girl. The poem is like a song some old time country folks might sing on a cold, dark, winter night.
May 29, 2021 @ 21:28:27
Deborah, just make sure you have locked up properly 💜💜
May 29, 2021 @ 23:06:11
Every night. 😉
May 30, 2021 @ 07:15:55
Indeed 💜💜
May 29, 2021 @ 21:00:58
Great imagery and a little twist on the quest for knowledge.
May 29, 2021 @ 21:46:52
I think I’d rather never get to meet her. Great job Willow.
May 30, 2021 @ 07:16:44
Thank you Lauren, she very cunning 💜
May 30, 2021 @ 01:28:44
Jeez Louise!! What wicked ideas you have!
Excellent!
May 30, 2021 @ 07:14:44
That’s me, have you locked your doors 😁💜
May 30, 2021 @ 11:49:58
They are now!! 🤣🧡
May 30, 2021 @ 13:38:01
Excellent 💜
May 30, 2021 @ 13:51:22
🙂 🧡💞🧡
May 30, 2021 @ 14:19:33
💜💜😁😁
May 30, 2021 @ 02:13:35
Willow! Wow!
May 30, 2021 @ 07:15:25
Count the children, lock the doors! 😜💜💜💜
May 30, 2021 @ 16:43:46
Really well done, Sis!
May 30, 2021 @ 17:11:13
Thank you Sis 💜💜
May 27, 2022 @ 13:25:04
Hi Willow,
This is one strange and very clever image. Dark, but so well written.
You shared the link to this with me (thanks) and I left one piece of feedback for you there.
I lack the poetry gene but you have a mastery of both meter and word use that I doubt I’ll ever reach. I have to work extra hard to read and “get” poetry but this was a fun read. You broke through to one normally deaf to poems.
May 27, 2022 @ 16:19:49
Thank you Gary o am so glad to have broken through your poetry block, it’s always great to get someone to enjoy your work. So job done. I love poetry and prose and sometimes I even mix them 💜
May 27, 2022 @ 16:30:07
👍