Halloween Anxiety Poems

Dreams dreams and dreams,
Although the reality is far away from the fantasy realms.
Under the sunbeams, I considered it mainstream,
but all I could hear were my...

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“Baby, win me a prize at the county fair.”

The smell of funnel cake mingles with the metallic scent of rickety rides.  The smoke billowing...

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Bumps in the night can be a curse
But I can't think of anything worse
Than thoughts that echo in your head
Of things you wish you had...

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It's just October, but, oh no!

They cannot just let Autumn glow!

Entered some stores, just yesterday-

saw Christmas trees on full display-

doomed Halloween, Thanksgiving's show!
...

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On Saturday night,
I was watching a movie
Till I fell asleep.

All of a sudden,
At around twelve forty-five,
I heard a loud thump.

"Who is that?" I asked.
I waited...

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Ebony portals form in the shadows,
and demons emerge from the depths of Hell.
Exactly why this occurs, no one knows,
but their presence is marked by a...

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This land of entitlement 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping 
clutching 
scraping this infernal sky!

Arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunted like...

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What he’s capable of, I do admit, frightens me the most
My dread began in 2006, on TV his face did appear
The Burger King with the...

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All those movie characters
Crying in the shower
Definitely staged
But guess not
Short fits of panic
Fizzing in the steam
My lifelike dreams
Scare me
Waking up
Between dreams
To realize
You were never there...

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Descending on this night, a foul
darkness falls like the reaper's cowl.
And shadows conceal the undead,
instilling the living with dread.

On Halloween, demons roam free,
while ghosts go...

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Contest Name - Fall Flavours 
Category - Jumping in a pile of leaves
Sponsor Name - Regina McIntosh
Date - 17 Oct 2022

First day of Autumn
He looked...

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In a celebration of death and fright,
goblins gather within the pale moonlight.
For jack-o-lanterns bathed in candlelight
will morph into orange gargoyles tonight.
While vampires and witches, masters...

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Sinister voices heard...

and ethereal disembodied spirits seen
from the other side of the woods
said phantasmagorical sound and sight
particularly experienced every Halloween.

Though dog tired
ready for the nocturnal...

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When I was a child, outside of Christmas,
Halloween was my favorite time of year.
I loved creating homemade costumes from rags
to wear trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.
And...

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My neighbor's orange pumpkin patch
seems so spooky and 'very scary' from my veranda.
A black cat cardboard cutout 'will still' give me a thrill
if provocatively poised...

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