Best Eery Poems

Warm days and cold nights
a clash of bucks rutting wild
snowflakes scent the wind.
 

Autumn paints the leaves
cascading colors tumble
crimson carpets stone.


Ripe for Halloween
an eery pumpkin...

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Surrounded by seven cherubs of cheer,
Just recently passing my 100th year,
I’ve been standing here on this perch,
In Little Falls, MN’s Our Lady of Lourdes church.

Most...

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The screech of claws scratching against my window,
The flickering beams of flashlights reflect into my haunted eyes,
The shivers creep down my spine with feeling of...

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Snow creeping drifting down
Falling slowly toward the ground
As October skies turn gray
Growing colder along the way
Silence haunting in the night
Wolves baying giving a fright
Hearing footsteps...

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Disease beneath the skin, iron will can never win.
Death in the air, sorrow and misery the killing pair.
What's no longer in the mind, has left...

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that barn owl in the tree must know something,
quietly it looks, follows all night long,
looks from left, right, left.. like pendulum swing,
its ears pricked, is...

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"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the...

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Military and civilian linguists and intelligence analysts, my colleagues and I were monitoring the Balkans troubles, supporting our troops in theater 'down range'. We were...

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SHAPE SHIFTER
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Whiter than the bright
Light at the dawn of the day
Like an angel I fly
... High across the skies

A giver of life where I can
Amidst...

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Striding into the snowy fortress my tepid heart at double time 
paces
Entering a pine colonnade sprouting a wintry mane, saddled with 
velvety laces    
Cloaked...

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In a small shop outside of town,
on a dark and eery day,
   while rain comes crashing down,
there I lay in dismay.
  ...

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Firelight ghost stories entertain the dark starless evening. Young eyes plead, tell me a ghost story please!

On a dark moonless, starless night much darker than...

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When everything and everyone repel from you
Because of the evil you emanate,
Your hushed shadow always stays with you-
It stays true like a son, or a...

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The lighting- it was over-bright.
 
Oh, how I feared that eery glow!

The sky was luminous that night;

the lighting- it was over-bright.

And there it was! ...

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Who heard the shrieks
of spirits?
Who heard the plea
of souls?
            .
    ...

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