Best Ghastly Poems

Flowing Deep, Those Ghastly Shards Of Regret

Flowing deep, those ghastly shards of regret
and the spasms they birth in weeping soul
no reprieve, caught in that sorrowful net
love's joyous flag no longer had its pole.

Moon was shining and sky was gleaming bright.
That fateful night, I was blind,...

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wheatgrasses of morn
  ringlets tattered by maelstorm-
I lay on dirt path, wailing

into night's refrain
 quill darts on  flamed papyrus
ghastly the boogeyman's haunt



5/30/2015
Contest: Boogeyman for Nayda Ivette Negron...

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false face ghastly garb
bellows boos by porch light halo....
no fruit or mints please...

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ALARMING GHASTLY GHOSTLY HOST--
I saw an alarming ghost,
It wasn't all by choice;
I saw a scary spectre, 
swapping alarming for scary...entomb host;
swapping ghost for the spectre,
gravesite loyal protector;
~
I saw an alarming ghost;
I heard a ghastly ghost,
swapping alarming for a ghastly scary loyal host;

6/12/19...

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The Terrible Ghastly Beastliness of
"THE POTATO CADAVER UNDEAD REVIVAL" (sonnet)
The Potato of Terror, April 24th 2002

They dug him up with a great pointed spade,
Awoke him from his rest of ninety years,
And O what a great bellowing he made,
And shook his fists, and twitched his pointed...

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I
Are you fascinated with languages
Including all swear words, and vulgarities
Some actually are as pleasant as cakes
But serious questions about LIGHTNING:
It is a gerund; the happening is the THING
Making a verb into a noun, as we do with FEEL-ing

II
Moving on from lightning and feeling -
The top...

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life
expires
without signs...
his ghost's remnants
mirroring lesions of her mournful gaze,
tears pour out with unexpected  lament:
scoundrel of  hours
raking breath,
her nights
lost.


Broken Wings' Contest: Dust Off A Memory 
10/25/2017...

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"Ghastly Rich Adventures!" (N'er a Kilt!) 
 
For thy wish
upon high mount from wherest thou stand stout!
Merry, merry ladies toil and treasure thy jewels when o'er a gift appear about thy woven knit
n'er a kilt
yet golden virtues only chosen
two clothes a roping for thy depart...

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Ghastly Grave Gathering 

Gran and grandpa are gone
Giving grandchildren gifts
Generations greedy
Guilty, grabbing for gain
Granted gratis gold goods
Girls grovel gracelessly
Gluttonous grandkids grief 

November 2016...

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Bazaar Buzzard
          
            Bizarre...

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In the dark of night
When the moon is ripe
And loneliness my companion
Sad songs drifting sounding tripe
Fuelling my ghastly depression

There I sit watching misery
Spider walking up the wall
Whisky bottle brings memories
Memory takes me to a dance hall

There I met her tall and blonde
A vision so divine
Our...

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When words cannot convey the story

and truth becomes mere allegory,

when words cannot express the shock,

reality, itself, is mocked.


No words I find can near convey

the ghastly truth I faced that day.

The tale I've tried to tell a few,

but my meager words cannot get through.


When everything you've...

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minutes adorned-still, savouring 
Liveth she long, liveth the queen (justly adorned in royal threading)
Liveth ye both happily in dreams amid thy seedly meadows of purple, silver and black that 
both ye hath planted and tended so very well at that!
Burguandy sculptures beneath thy spiral staircase...

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From the house of the dead it came
with long spindly toes and crooked nose.
It stood on its hind legs
to a height of eight feet
on knobby knees against the breeze.

“Why are you here? What’s the reason?”
Such a shrill screech did it release!
It held hourglass and scythe
in...

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no one knows him in the room
except by loss of breath
greeted as unwelcome guest
his stinking scent is death
noses wrinkled in disgust
when sensed this gust of wind
all souls beneath his sickly scent
are far too quickly pinned.
inhaled in gasps of shortened breath
each person feels impending death.
Surprised, all...

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