For Kerry at Real Toads. the prompt is based on the last line of William Blake’s Garden of Love. http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/10/micro-poetry-binding-with-briars.html Twelve lines is the limit to this weekend mini=challenge, any form you wish. To read the poem by Blake: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45950/the-garden-of-love
For Poets United tomorrow.
Garden of Stars
frozen and tangled
blackberry briars encircle
the sunken grave dug in
silence by the light of stars –
nobody knew her – nobody
cared – the lust that rent her
passed quickly – then rage.
off to find another one
he crept on into the night.
soon another will be planted.
nobody knows them,
nobody cares.
public domain image
kanzen sakura 
Oct 21, 2017 @ 17:56:23
This is beautifully haunting.. love the images of ‘blackberry briars’ and ‘the lust that rent her passed quickly – then rage.”
Oct 21, 2017 @ 17:56:55
Thank you Sanaa.
Oct 21, 2017 @ 21:22:46
Intense. Of course, you leave me with so many untied threads. And that’s good.
Oct 22, 2017 @ 01:58:29
Oh I do love the question this makes me ask. The language of the grave as reflected from Blake works so well.
Oct 22, 2017 @ 02:34:06
The title grabbed me, Toni, which reminded me of a romantic piece of yours, a haibun. So when I read the lines:
‘frozen and tangled
blackberry briars encircle
the sunken grave dug in
silence by the light of stars’
I was pulled into the darkness of this poem and then encountered the image of a serial killer planting bodies by the light of stars – and nobody cares. Chilling.
Oct 22, 2017 @ 08:22:55
The imagery of the opening lines creates the scene perfectly. A sorrowful tale indeed.
Oct 22, 2017 @ 11:35:38
indeed chilling from the first line which sets the scene for the murderously macabre in the briars
Oct 22, 2017 @ 15:58:21
Powerful images in the narrative open doors to all sorts of possibilities.Dark things are afoot.
Oct 23, 2017 @ 02:44:15
Beautifully expressed – and thought-provoking
Oct 23, 2017 @ 22:48:28
I agree with what everyone else said.
Makes me think of Jack the Ripper.
namaste
JzB
Oct 23, 2017 @ 23:05:36
Bingo!
Oct 24, 2017 @ 13:28:15
blackberry briars is beautiful – but the imagery haunting as we read to the end…