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Best Headless Poems

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Premium Member Halloween's Headless Horseman
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...

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Categories: headless, childhood, children, dad, halloween,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Headless Horsemen
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...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: headless, adventure, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tiger In a Cage
Tiger in a Cage (a stab at men)

Like a caged tiger.
You do not know what is in my den?
There is no worse feeling than the...

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Categories: headless, abuse, animal, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Hollow
The October night was dark and cold,
As the autumn sun was going down,
When I recalled the legends I had been told,
About this sleepy, little town.

There...

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Categories: headless, halloween, horror, tribute, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Viking Warfare
I left my home, the world to roam
it’s been now twelve years gone.
From a boy to a man
was a dreadful short span,
as I journeyed to...

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Categories: headless, conflict, courage, hero, men,
Form: Rhyme



My Only Son
I woke last night, with a heavy heart,
miles away, and world's apart,

sensing you...  sensing you..

All through the night, and into morn,
headless fears and shadows...

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© Kim Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: headless, hero, murder, war,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Sleepless Nights
Insomnia, familiar friend,
crawled into bed this summer night
so once again, inflamed with dread
I wander now in pitch of dark 
and touch the places, now by...

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Categories: headless, angst, imagination, mystery, language,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Lady and Me

I met her in the wake of night.
A tiny flake of gold, 
traveling at the speed of light.

I dipped my plume, and 
used her bright...

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Categories: headless, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Solstice
Solstice…  

Solstice…

How can I drag myself without divine wine?
I am falling, and I need wine to be mine.
Being inebriated has its own joy,
To me,...

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Categories: headless, allusion, angst, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Rest In Pieces
BUTCHER PETE

In the vault below lies the mince, of butcher Pete
Got dragged into a meat processor by the soles of his feet.

RADIOACTIVE  SCUM

The Russian...

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Categories: headless, death, humor,
Form: Epitaph
In the Minds Fixed Eye
VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless...

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Categories: headless, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Few Clerihews
Warning, if you are under 60 you may not "get" some of these.

Mohammad Ali
taunting with poetry,
his opponents he'd zing
as he danced 'bout the ring.

Graham Kerr...

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Categories: headless, fun,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member The Beheading of John the Baptist
The Beheading of John the Baptist

Inside a dungeon, a man is shackled;
Where instruments are employed to inflict
Pain on him while being interrogated;
To confess to crimes,...

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Categories: headless, betrayal, bible, christian, education,
Form: Sonnet
Power Rules
In this world
Power rules
What would have happened
If Germany won WWII in Europe?
If Japan won WWII in Pacific?

Jewes would have disappeared 
On this planet
Japan would have...

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Categories: headless, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paprika
bursting hot bubbling like lava
oh most sacred shade of sacral chakra’s bloom
chrysanthemum petals burst
like fireworks on the fourth of July
and so none can deny the...

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Categories: headless, allegory, imaginationpower,
Form: Free verse

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