The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I watched the wrong movie for this poem and decided to do an algamation of movies...

The darkness of tales plays out through time
Haunting us with the power of words
Eliciting emotions that trap our screams

Legends of the past are
Evoked and driven forward in movie form
Giving us nightmares and shaking the marrow of our bones
Even days and weeks later
Never shaking the stories passed
Down from one generation to the next

Over time the tales twist and stir the imaginations
Forming new incarnations

Sleepy Hollow is such a tale
Leaving no one undisturbed
Even Johnny Depp's good looks
Eerily mask the darkness as we follow him
Praying he stays safe as he investigates
Yearning to know the truth of the murders

How can a headless horseman be in existence
And how can a woman of Christina Ricci's beauty summon
Loves twist of fate
Leaving
Our hero
Woefully lost in the forest of the past.


Line count = 24.

Notes ▶︎

Written for 13 Days of Poetry Halloween Contest:
Day 5 Acrostic Poetry
Acrostic Poetry is where the first letter of each line spells a word, usually using the same words as in the title. In this case the whole name of the movie.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow /b}

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/acrostic.html

Topic-- Tim Burton’s macabre adaptation of Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is an under-appreciated Halloween movie. Starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, the gothic supernatural horror film follows police constable Ichabod Crane (Depp) as he investigates a series of murders by the legendary apparition known as the Headless Horseman. While the film is not explicitly related to Halloween, it captures the spirit of the holiday through its eerie, decaying atmosphere and focus on urban legends. Burton’s reimagined (and bloodier) take on Irving’s classic tale combines horror, fantasy and romance into a truly haunting and suspenseful murder mystery. — M.Z. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1999

I have watched and heard many variations of this story. Many versions of this movie were released in 1999. The movie with Johnny Depp is called Sleepy Hollow.