Halloween Body Poems

Mr Spud Head is wearing a frown
Some eejit stole his wife’s best gown
His wife who’s called Myrtle
Looks like a gross turtle
Spud’s concerned that the chips...

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Green was her face and ebon her hair,
features young, body withered sinew.
Her enormous eyes gave me a scare.
And, from one nostril, a ruby grew.

I stayed...

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Sinister voices heard...

and ethereal disembodied spirits seen
from the other side of the woods
said phantasmagorical sound and sight
particularly experienced every Halloween.

Though dog tired
ready for the nocturnal...

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the sodium arc light hums 
into the frosted night
Bathing all in acidic 
sickly amber that of a toxic wound, 
splashing through the skeletal trees 

the...

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in electric nightmares of horrors unseen 
we will know the hour of our demise. 
We huddle in fear and terror. 
Something scratches at the door...

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...a bitter time

WINTER OF MISERY
It clings to all...
Freezing our bones.
Chilling our passion...
Land's are lost in this winters Blizzard...
A cold season of bitter fruits.
A life that...

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Where there mountain there gaar
Where there Tariq there daar
Where there Kapoor there kumaar
Where there snowy peaks there abshaar
Where there challenge there Lalkaar
Where there shorish there...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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ghouls lurk in shadows

   raking flesh of bloody lizards…

      evening's pulse throbs



beware, in moon’s hour

   ...

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Thin Kin
by Michael R. Burch

Skeleton!
Tell us what you lack...
the ability to love,
your flesh so slack?

Will we frighten you,
grown as pale & unsound...
when we also haunt
the...

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Sammy Skelton, a sorry bag of bones
Tried to keep up with Johnny 'Crossbone' Jones 
   He practiced grim groans
   Produced awful...

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Thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool 
   upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata 
   flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal...

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She stared at me,
Through her dark dry eyes,
She seemed to me,
Like a ghost in disguise.

Her eyes held neither emotions,
Nor did they reflect her inner depth,
She...

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OKAY? WHAT FIEND STOLE THY BODY ELECTRIC!?

thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool upon a midnight clear
full moonlight flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures...

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to the skeleton within

slinking about in our skin

let us thank its feet

a halloween treat

not letting us bump our shin....

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