Best Headless Poems

One Halloween night when I was five
Rain pelted city streets, we stayed inside

Dad lit the Jack-o-lantern candle
Told us the tale of a famous vandal

One “Headless Horseman” in Sleepy Hollow
‘Twas Ichabod Crane he chose to follow

Crane ran breathlessly, was terrorized
(At this point my father’s eyes looked...

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On the black stallion of death,
Its red crimson eyes pierce through the night,
And the hell's beast breathes its hot brazen breath
Blazing against the darkness's chilling air!
Does he ride, this phantom of the dead,
Wielding vengeance's sword.
With one hand on the hilt of the blade,
The other arm...

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She rolled her head down the hill
It picked up speed and lots of dirt and stuff
It began spitting out bugs and dust

Hey! Didn’t you need that for a math test?
Mrs. Peabody, a truly nosey neighbor asked her.
The head stuck out its tongue
And it laughed.

Some people...

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The Headless Greenlandic Horseman
A Meditation in 6 parts.

Avalanche
I.

The sky is starry
The night is scary
I'm very afraid
of the living dead;

On a mission; or Fugitives in the city
II.

The headless Greenlandic horseman
speaks Kalaallisut very well indeed,
plus Dansk and English! What a man!
A polyglot he is! Yes, sir! Although...

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One Halloween night when I was five,
rain pelted city streets, we stayed inside.

Dad lit the Jack-o-lantern candle,
told us the tale of a famous vandal.

One “Headless Horseman” in Sleepy Hollow,
‘twas Ichabod Crane he chose to follow.

Crane ran breathlessly, was terrorized, 
(At this point my father’s eyes...

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if Rowena's kuzzle was
the center of the Earth
he'd look for a shovel
she was an underpass hooker
exploited by a grim and grimy past
reckless as the day is long
a tourism so shameless 
her own union set her on fire
I can't praise them enough
I advised her to talk...

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HEADLESS CHICKEN SERVES TWO 

My son and his wife wanted fresh eggs so built a chicken run,
Always into something different that proved productive and fun,
They bought 4 rescue chickens, that each laid an egg a day,
One got brave, stuck head out of fence in an...

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The headless horseman
Appears to folk on dark nights
They scream like banshees
The black steed gallops away
Frightened by such loud noises

For Suzette’s tanka contest...

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I lie on a giant rock in the middle of the river bed
staring at the tree without a head
Dry stump shooting above me
Inviting one another into  their bed
Their nude bodies pressing against each other
hugging and kissing one another
They stand side by side on the...

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 Headless Horseman (Serventesio)


He rides through the forest nightly 
Looking for a soul to pray on, 
Child clings to his mother tightly 
Hoping to see the light of dawn. 

The headless horseman laughs loudly 
While tears swell in the mother's eyes, 
Horseman raises his sword proudly...

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Bats do fly on this spooky autumn night
Land on an old tree that’s deader than dead
There’s a noose that hangs from the greatest height
Hangs over the grave of man with no head

Sky has an orange tint to it tonight
Pumpkins enjoy the color and absorbs
Feeling the...

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Large skeletal hand
Holds the great headless horseman’s
Head, a huge carved gourd
A pumpkin that glows within
For all of Halloween night

Russell Sivey...

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The Headless Warrior



The creation of a civil war and a people that is not set free
Is like the blind leading the blind
And the person at the helm cannot see
That he has no vision and is so unkind

Can a person fight with hands and feet
When there...

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How I crave to tease these
Cocks with a one tract mind
Like headless chickens 
Blind and deaf to common sense
Clueless, mindless, and pathetic....

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A body enmeshed
in the dullard traffic
Intravenous circuits, downhill highways
By my side, snaking waterways
Ruthless traffic now bashes
No faces, no lyrical intimate
Blast out like canopener 

This soul-flying i have dreamed
Skyscraping every distance
The wheels of time shift
I ching scheduled polarities
Thoughts scatter and drift

This dream of civilization
Robbing a beating...

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