Stitches
Shelley wove us a tale of a monster more a man
A fleshy beast without, a broken heart within
Created in hubris and sin
Stitched together and broken
Again and again.
Frayed and tattered
Unraveled and splintered
Brittle and battered
Bled out and injured
Held together by needle and thread
Less alive and more or less dead
A patchwork man, soulless and cold
Unmended scars numbers untold
I
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Categories:
frankenstein, allegory, dark, depression, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Frankenstein 1818
Frankenstein 1818
A long time ago, there was a creepy guy from 1818.
He stood very tall in green.
The author Mary Shelley told the story.
Way back then it was gorry.
To create a creature.
Held up in a castle not to be bothered.
A scientific experiment.
With lightning for evidence.
A race to
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Categories:
frankenstein, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Frankenstein Butterfly
Butterfly, 'tis plain to see
we are enchanted, so, with thee.
You inspire us to write poetry.
"You are beautiful", I say and sigh.
That we love you, it's no wonder why.
Yet, when I see the way you fly,
I ask, "is too much nectar like wine?"
You do not fly in a straight line,
my dear insectoid Frankenstein.
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Categories:
frankenstein, butterfly, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Ghost of Frankenstein
Horror-stricken and
struggling in pools of cold sweat…
ghost of Frankenstein
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Categories:
frankenstein, horror,
Form: Haiku
The Ghost of Frankenstein
It’s hubris, I suppose, down in my soul,
To think the ends will justify all means.
And thinking that all rules are drab and dull
I end up being blown to smithereens.
But truly I know what is for the best!
Thus, whispers little demons in my ears.
Consider it a type of sacred quest
And follow your own heart and not
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Categories:
frankenstein, science,
Form: Sonnet
The Ghost of Frankenstein - Things to Come
You’d recreate a military hero?
Macarthur, maybe? Nimitz? Pershing? Sherman?
Or would you choose a leader from the past?
Suppose you went for Mussolini – Nero –
(I can’t remember what they called that German):
but stuff like this is happening today -
(the things that they can do with DNA!)
One rumour is, we’re getting Ethel Merman!
You’d vote for Conway Twitty?
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Categories:
frankenstein, future,
Form: Rhyme
Frankenstein, or Just The Monster
I feel nothing, and everything.
An empty echo.
Trapped, screaming but yawning.
I go unheard.
There is a spark,
A promise of reanimation
In endless pools of blue.
I can die and live
A thousand lifetimes
In an interlocked gaze…
But what happens
When the jolt
No longer
Reanimates
The dead.
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Categories:
frankenstein, abuse, betrayal, corruption, depression,
Form: Free verse
Frankenstein Sinatra
You’ve really done it this time Frank.
You’ve made the worst mess ever seen -
A monster, hideous and rank,
A disaster, vile and obscene.
For yourself, what d’ya have to say?
Well, says Frank, “I did it my way”.
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Categories:
frankenstein, music, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Frankenstein or His Monster?
We know the dire story of Jekyll and Hyde
Where a man’s potion made his nature divide.
In real life, it’s not easy to separate
Ourselves like eggs and potatoes on a plate.
If man is made in God’s image, then it’s fate
That God has some evil, and men replicate.
Everyone, everywhere, has a bit of both -
There’s evil in
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Categories:
frankenstein, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
My Electric Caress
I never trashed my convictions
She told me what I wanted to hear
To conceal and concede
People say take 2nd place
I can't watch a player take my roll
Settle for atrophic friend
happy to be at the beginning of the book called If I had a wish
Was I head over or over my head who knew
Did I
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Categories:
frankenstein, allusion, creation, freedom, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Happy Valloween!
Roses are red, goblins are green
Just like my buddy, Frankenstein
Well, it’s February fourteenth
And I don’t have a valentine
So let’s declare it Valloween
And now, my love, won’t you be mine?
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Categories:
frankenstein, halloween, humorous, romantic, valentines
Form: Rhyme
Frankenstein's Monster
Take the dead;
use their parts
to make a wretch,
this morbid art—
Frankenstein, Frankenstein!
You are to blame
for the deadness
in your heart.
Great scientists
applaud you,
what— because you
play a god!
Frankenstein, Frankenstein!
Broad paths
are better
left untrod.
Look in the mirror;
See the true beast!
You are the nightmare
stealing your sleep!
Oh, Frankenstein;
The self is the
monster that haunts
you—haunts me.
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Categories:
frankenstein, allegory, creation, humanity, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Welcome To the Club Frankenstein
On Halloween beneath the full moon
Both the Wolfman and Dracula drools
The fun will begin when the Witches drop in
It's another night out with the Ghouls
You'll find a host of dancing Demons
Followed by Ghosts and Goblins galore
There'll be flesh to dine at Club Frankenstein
You just pick what you want off the floor
All the drinks comes straight
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Categories:
frankenstein, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
The Wrath of Frankenstein
It was the eve of Halloween,
In a mansion on Haunted Hills.
The yearly gathering of Ghouls,
For poker and a couple of chills.
The Mummy was first to arrive,
Then the Wolfman and Frankenstein.
All were guests of Count Dracula,
Who offered each a glass of wine.
They all sat down at the table,
A game of stud poker began.
The Count drew a
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Categories:
frankenstein, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Frankenstein
They call me the poetic master
a genius storyteller
writing poetry
channels the inner Frankenstein in me
with a simple press of a key
in each rhyme and stanza:
I can craft a lucid love story
into a dynamic Romeo and Juliet tale!
I can craft a smooth nature poem
into an oil painting of figurative language!
I can craft a facile poem of Bahamian
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Categories:
frankenstein, art, creation, imagination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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