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Best Witching Hour Poems

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Premium Member The Witching Hour
Heralding in the witching hour,
Halloween resurrects the dead.
And creatures of the night waken
as zombies, vampires, and goblins.

The portals to hell are opened,
allowing spirits to roam...

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Categories: witching hour, evil, halloween, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member The Lives I Have Known Potd
It has been ages since the laughter died, which was many suns ago,
Soon swept away by fleeting time, like the brief giggle of a rainbow.

My...

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Categories: witching hour, absence, house, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Silhouette of the Night
Witching hour is upon us 
Dusky clouds, falling, swirling
Obscuring the crescent moon
Skeleton fingered branches
Beckoning me in the wind 
As I creep past the grave stones
To...

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Categories: witching hour, dark, scary,
Form: Verse
Premium Member On Halloween Night
I hear the October winds whispering and I think it knows,
as the witching hour arrives and a harvest moon glows,
only once a year, do we...

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Categories: witching hour, celebration, death, family, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Maiden of the Moon
*****Anyone who knows my poetry knows how I often use Greek mythology in my works. This poem revolves around the idea of the moon longing...

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Categories: witching hour, moon, mythology, romance,
Form: Romanticism



And Then
And Then…

My work finished
     I glanced back at the clock
Ah… The Witching Hour
     Hung heavy on the...

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Categories: witching hour, adventure, angst, death, faith,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Beyond Midnight
Originally for Andrea’s One in Three contest but checked the rules before posting and found I’d written over 16 lines DOH!!! I’ll keep the title...

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Categories: witching hour, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Succubus In Bloom Lyrics
Well you’ve gone where the cold wind blows, and the soil is plagued with fear.  Treat your wounds. Rest awhile, 
the DEVIL can’t find...

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Categories: witching hour, betrayal, crazy, dark, depression,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member I Know You Are Here
It's 3 a.m.  The universal witching hour, so of course, I'm wide awake.
The snarly opossums are on the porch, fighting over a delicious corn-fed...

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Categories: witching hour, angel, death, how i
Form: Couplet
Paradise In a Dream
Paradise In A Dream

There is so much weighing me down
The daily toils of doing what others want
Screaming kids fighting all day long
Another four hours of...

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Categories: witching hour, funny, wife, day, me,
Form: Free verse
At a Distance

Afar off you stand,
fearful of me
because of what ... 
the color of my skin?

At a distance (you deem safe)
do you judge
the worth of me
As you...

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Categories: witching hour, discrimination, hate, society, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Yellow Brick
" (Two roads) diverged in a yellow wood and I choose the

            the one...

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Categories: witching hour, adventure, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Romantic Star Language
A romantic silent language spoken in feelings originates
in gleaming stars projecting into dark sky at three a.m.
Illuminating imagination in the loveliest of ways.

		  ...

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Categories: witching hour, imagination, star,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Trixie Shakes Me Awake
Trixie, my poetic muse,  shakes me awake.
The clock says 2:59 or 3:01, 
A.M.,  the witching hour.
The ending of a poem filters through the...

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Categories: witching hour, dream, muse, poems, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Karnataka Night
Walking at night bathed in the non-light
Of the New Moon, artificial street lights
Marked safe passage along dusty streets
To the central square fountain, half-way home
To the...

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Categories: witching hour, memory, travel,
Form: Sonnet

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