Halloween Fear Poems

who then rings
thy solitary bell
whose voice cuts through
the mist

and lowly darkness
winter’s eve
there far off 
screaming fox

when unseen eyes
then look upon
from trees that hide
in cloak

and footsteps
cast...

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Dreams dreams and dreams,
Although the reality is far away from the fantasy realms.
Under the sunbeams, I considered it mainstream,
but all I could hear were my...

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After the day’s work I was off to bed.
From behind my room, I heard a fierce thud.
It sounded so scary.
It left me so weary.
I got...

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Vampires and werewolves used to be
The scary monsters of Halloween
Now guns bring tears
And wars bring fears
The monsters are no longer dreams...

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In my sanctuary’s hush, Poe’s tales I clasp,
Into his world, I plunge, a breath, a rasp.
Beneath the creaking floorboards, a heart's pulse
In my mind, it...

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Costuming Halloween

Masque my visage fast!
…So my eyes bulge out, drunken red, and give me
    purpled, hairy lips and cheeks to complete 
My...

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“Baby, win me a prize at the county fair.”

The smell of funnel cake mingles with the metallic scent of rickety rides.  The smoke billowing...

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Autumn's, veil, misty,
Intrigue prowls-horror’s echo,
Halloween's chill creeps.

Masked-truth’s cleaver guise,
Secrets whisper ‘mongst shadows,
Fear stalks-night’s cruel jest....

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I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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Stardust lay o'ver demon who had lost a gleeman
Shadowy as nightfall, haunted like vile downfall

...

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In full moon frame hungry wolf silhouettes bark,
a cloudy castle on hazy hill top looms in the dark.
Through the rusty steel gate a figure in...

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Accepting my costumed friends dare, I cautiously pushed through the weeds to the unlit dilapidate porch.  Before I could knock, the door creaked open.

"Come...

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In the darkness there is a flaming light 
illuminating just one shedding tear;
The state of the world is in such a plight,
are we really doing...

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She was ensnared within her gardens,
Amid a tempest of roses,
Entangled in the mournful whispers of… 
Weeping willows,
From noon till night.

Within her bustling haven, 
the envy...

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Halloween night
with
a
bright orange jack-a-lantern moon
hanging in the spooky sky 
while
chills running
up and down
our spines
as
we 
walked and whistled gently
pass the graveyard still...

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