Halloween Fire Poems

iv.
By Thanksgiving, their machinations no longer discreet,
Voices from the walls and vents, betrayed their deceit.
My family revealed as demons in flesh-and-blood guise,
Christmas Day was the...

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i.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse.
My wife and son lay silent, all tucked...

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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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This land of entitlement 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping 
clutching 
scraping this infernal sky!

Arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunted like...

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Its skeletal bones bare
Eyes still stare 
All that remains is the soul
A drift as a shadow lingers there
A bare bulb blares
sways absently silently 
in the...

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Dark nights 
your pulse racing 
October is screeching 
Welcoming you into the fire 
of fear....

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I remember the day Frankenstein was made,                  ...

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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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When the trees drop gold and fire
And the spirits roam the world
Kids go out and do not tire
'Till all candy is unfurled.

Grown-ups play but do...

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As a child we think of masks and Halloween,                ...

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It was shifting night of eyes and things;
Of smoky fires and spells to sing.
Where witches dance and fairies prance
And night takes flight upon its wings.

October...

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I welcome death I'm not afraid
Ten years within this cell I've stayed
My wealth immense a cruel game's been played
Innocent but still a debt it must...

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Hallow's Eve ignites
Sisters draw towards the fire
     Home at last unrest


17.10.10


Composed for Laura Loo's
Halloween Senryu Contest
(syllables checked)...

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ALL THINGS PALE

fire started in hell ~
beckoning the lonely girl
with fierce crimson glow

the matchsticks hold hands
with an unrelenting grip ~
horror lights her face

her red hair...

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May I dance with you?  It's Hallowen.
The moon is blue and I love you.

Place your hand on my lower back.
Draw me to you, don't...

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