Rose Halloween Poems

The gathered, outside my house, lingered long,
As if it were Halloween night -
A rogue's gallery of goblins and ghouls,
They were an unwanted sight.

Their faces had...

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Faerie queen was debating about her metamorphous now
She wanted to be a butterfly, but could not figure out how
Just relax and let nature do what...

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“‘til death do us part” the vampire once said
 to his pallid bride, her throat blushing red.
 The guests grew squeamish at what they just...

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As I Rose From Purple Slumberland, My Heart Red Aflame

As I rose from purple slumberland, my heart red aflame
There within crackling old bones was an...

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Five ghostly cats rose from the bowels of Jack
Appeared silently with no clatter or clack.
How did that jack-o-lantern create those ghoulish cats?
Wondered gargoyles, ghouls and...

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In the gloom of the night came the screams from the scree
from the foot of the mountain, from inside the cave.
Are they human or animal…...

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From the memoirs
he smiled
laughing evil
might his cohorts
agree
an evil smile
upon his burlapped
face he opened
his eyes to see
he offered
Crabgrass and Brier wreaths
with ragweed pollen as gifts
I am...

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Green was her face and ebon her hair,
features young, body withered sinew.
Her enormous eyes gave me a scare.
And, from one nostril, a ruby grew.

I stayed...

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Upon this twilight eve a full moon-lite night appeared,
Crackling leaves with mounds of bags and children jumping with glee.
As graves flew open with ghostly sights...

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HALLOWEEN NIGHTMARE
I was walking through the churchyard at the dead of night.
I had often used the short cut and never had a fright.
But this time...

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From soil and filth and death we rose
One eve to feast under the moon
Lurk in decay with flesh necrose
Take caution, you are not immune 

We...

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Slowly the long tiring day ended and the night fell,
A gloomy darkness spread as the clock struck twelve. 
The graveyard looked eerie in the dim...

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I could not see her face,
She was completely ensconced,
Head to foot in silky white,
Rose-adorned chantilly lace.

The lace was light and airy
lit up and shining from...

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“Forever”



When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the 
labyrinthine trail...

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