Frightening Poems

Frightening

Frightening...
The night is heavy, thick with dread,
whispers slither through the air,
calling voices long since dead.

Frightening...
A knock—too soft, too slow, too light,
no one should be at your door,
not at this ungodly night.

Frightening...
The mirror shifts, yet you stay still,
a shadow moves that is not yours,
a shape that bends against your will.

Frightening...
The floorboards creak—too close this time,
your breath

Brightening Frightening Neurology

Spectral light resounding arcs
healing theistic justice
positively bow toward resonant 
pantheistic patterned peace
and negatively bend
against dissonant monodramatic trauma.

So too,
wealthy sounding polyphonic cadence
can feel drawn
toward deeply panentheistic
meaning-fullness

Despite no healthy polypathic narrative
that seems widely polymathic
democratic speed of inspiraling light 
and fractal-powered purpose

When justice shows up
You don't have to solve my world,
resolve my mind to body
shows just cadence up
maybe

Frightening Ring

It's so frightening
Singing in a big audience
In a boxing ring.

Frightening Halloween Night

The mother could not stop screaming after her daughter was snatched.
Her son ran to their spaceship and locked himself inside the hatch.
Father ran after daughter, and skull creature took them both into the skies.
Frightening Halloween night; as ghoulish weirdos sharpen up their knives.

frightening barn owl masks

I have seen masks that give me a fright
But the barn owl masks are truly not right
They turn the warriors into crying babies.
Running away as if we all have rabies.

The barn owl masks are spooky for sure.
They have scared the Trojans and Aztecs pure.
We think this is why the Mayans ran away.
Have you seen them?

Frightening Path On Halloween Night

silhouette of winding gnarly trees, a scary sight
outline that bodes familiarity on Halloween night
the frightening path enticing me, stirring my blood.
my pounding heart is a thud, I feel like a faker, a dud.

I always brag that I am afraid of nothing, right?
but here I am, facing this demented terrifying sight.
the clairaudient part of me can

Weather They'Re Right Or Not

A storm blew over, brightening
the town with fast, white, lightening. 
Their weatherman was wrong
the “clear skies” were gone.
All in all, it was quite frightening.

Blessed

Rest is no cure for tiredness, the more you rest, that expands double the score                         
Dull, steady, boring bulge weary every second more and more      

Frightening Poker Game

I am afraid of clowns someone said.
No one laughed.
It was a serious poker game.
Chuckie glared in my direction.

I had not noticed Freddie or Jason yet.
Concentrating so hard on my cards.
When I looked up I tried to bow out.
But I was held in place.

An invisible force controlled me.
A dementor was here!
I was his puppet.
I wished I

The Last Destiny

The last destiny
A secret place to go
A mysterious journey 
And a frightening experience indeed
For finding out any more
And before one go
One must leave behind all the belongings
Money, properties,knowledge and 
experiences
Hatred and love
Friends,family and the loved ones
One'll find that one has a lot
But all the time one said 
One has a little
One's greed has betrayed oneself
Like

The Fire That We Call Human

Most frightening of all the fires, is the fire that we call Human
It burns down the whole wide world, and Humanity also not forsaken
This fire that we call Human, is now the greatest creation of that kind
Where flowers never bloom in hearts, and love never gets awoken.

(09.24.2020)

Shark

skeleton cartilage
seven gill slits on head
supreme power symbol
stalks prey up to six miles
sense of smell amazing
species are small or large
sudden seashore scary

SECOND PLACE WINNER
written March 10, 2022
especially for "In Search of Prey" poetry contest
sponsored by Joseph May
syllables checked with HMS and PS

Beware the Goblins

Beware the goblins that hang out with gloom,
That send little children screaming in fright
The werewolves that spell a sudden doom.

Sudden noises like mushroom clouds boom
At your front door on Halloween night,
Beware the goblins that hang out with gloom.

Likely the little witches will carry their broom
They yell “Trick or Treat” and run out of sight,
The werewolves

Da Mouse

The Mouse

I was going to bed,
after the trip to the med.
But then I saw something,
It looked frightening.

It squealed terrible shrieks,
from what looked Like beaks.
It was small,
with a creepy claw.

It frightened me,
It was so creepy!
But as soon as I ran out of the house,
I found out it was just a mouse.

A Frightening Squall Is Descending To Earth

Do clouds rapidly flee chased by icy gulls?
Is something more horrifying about to happen?
A frightening squall is descending to Earth,
the airways are free of fowls and raptors,
mothers rescue their kids from the captor,
their safety is a ritual since the dawn of Man;
shivering and unprotected is that grizzly bear
climbing the redwood tree for his cubs' mirth!

Sand

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