Saturn Devouring His Son This painting is part of the "Black Paintings" series and is thought to depict the Greek Myth of Cronus. By Francisco Goya - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4221233
paintings can't hurt you...
beware — selfish man and gods
for we eat our young.
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Author's Notes: Another horrorish haiku for the Haunted Echoes challenge. This time, after several poems inspired by paintings by Picasso, Brueghel, Friedrich, Raphael, and Caravaggio. This time it is Goya who can play as muse to this writer, me, while also scratching his itch.
Here are some others:
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