Halloween Age Poems

I'm seventeen and nothing seems right,

In recovery, but not mentally,

It's these voices that get my attention,

Do I respond or push them away,

What if they keep...

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Once pawn a time...

About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable...

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I can never comply with fastidious hygiene

Try as thee most persuasive person might,
he/him, she/her,
they, them... can never wean
yours truly always objected
being told when to bathe/shower
particularly...

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Impossible mission to uncouple accountability,
(no matter minuscule - veritable drop within
figurative bucket when quantity contrasted/
compared alongside industrial waste courtesy
major corporations), yet helplessness prevails
survival (mine) inextricably...

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Gray haired man hobbling down the hall
Forty years of pictures hanging on the wall 
From diapers to kindergarten and their very first bike
That time at...

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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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Its skeletal bones bare
Eyes still stare 
All that remains is the soul
A drift as a shadow lingers there
A bare bulb blares
sways absently silently 
in the...

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These days im filled with feeling insignificant.
Just a voice in the wind
Carried and spent
As the world turns, 
It turns itself inside out
Wearing suffocating masks while...

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"Give it back!" He shouted.
Hands tied by retirement , out  of shape like Halloween pumpkins.
Death on his mind , trigger on the head....

Bamn! He...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Slow down!  by Viv Wigley


The first week of September,
still no sign of Halloween,
a shop window full of Christmas cards
the second I have seen.
By the time...

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Domingo
sitting in his chair on the walk
day after day
he's seen many days years decades

Teeth like a half eaten ear of corn
or an old halloween pumpkin
but...

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I once made a Halloween costume
For a little boy of four.
And gave him a sack with some string I had,
To go knocking on the doors.

His...

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Screams of terror fill in the cracks
Of  ancient crumbling castle rocks
Everyone enjoys old world accommodations 
Hotels are always cheap but at full capacity ...

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We drank tang because the astronauts did...
Our plastic spacemen sashayed in sandboxes
we made lunar capsules out of tinfoil
on Halloween spacemen mingled 
with mad clowns jack...

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