Mystery Fear Poems

As a child I was warned
that if I looked at the light
for too long it would send
me blind and yet
the stuttering flash
and eerie blue light...

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In a field of golden sunflowers, 
Their faces turned towards the sun's warm embrace, 
A great white shark glides through the azure depths, 
Silent predator...

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Well, you know me?

I've always been shy around Gurls
I didn't tell my Mom 
Until I was forty-four
The last one I had (no not my Mom)
Was...

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a tomb
   you say
domed 
and grand
and cherubin
   temerity
a mass grave
of all of us
but 
who still
creeps around
upstairs


...

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Hiding behind the bushes
And closed closet doors, 
Lurking under your bed
On dark and dusty floors 

A shape in the shadows 
You know he is there,...

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I, as paper man
in paper town, 
grey, saw 
a cardboard cut-out
of a mirror, 
the reflection
was a busy world 
it didn't look real, 
those colours
and restaurants


...

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Seeping and crawling came my fear.
I couldn’t see it very clear.
Tension mounting as it came near,
Transforming it into a tear.

Anxiously waiting, couldn’t hear,
My eyes were...

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In my darkest hour my thoughts wander, sometimes too far and sometimes just yonder. I find myself in total darkness, without a flame or word...

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There is a darkness 
Between the trees tonight, 
There is a darkness 
And I have the light

Be it only a lantern 
A flame and a...

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Standing on the precipice of fear and awe,
We are creatures in wonder and uncertainty.
We make all our heavens and hells.
This edge of possibility, where we...

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On a full moon day ,
Like some mysteries way ;
Trees are shivering,
Silently wind is blowing ;
I don't know what is this ,
It's a demon or...

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Grief tears down the walls,
Built by scarred hearts,
Convincing walls, sturdy like the oak –
But not nearly as resilient when anguish trembles
In hearts who have never...

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“F”, we’ll call him Felipe
Felipe found a doorway
he didn’t mean to
he wasn’t looking for it
and at first he wasn’t aware 
he’d gone through it
but something...

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by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett

Some say, and believe, bad luck lurks in threes.
That a triplet of troubles and woes, even doom,
Can be expected to appear, joined...

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The clinking toward an adventure.
The door latch of an old manor
to enter an obscure maze
and defy the legend.
A basement with tombs
and oubliettes.
And a dart
to meet
death.
...

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