Teen Halloween Poems

It’s a hippo!
It’s a flying boy!
It’s a teen!
Someone hollers with joy.

It’s smartly dressed.
It is so well groomed!
It is flying high.
Without a plane or broom.

You can...

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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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We’re on Fall break this week and Peter’s favorite aunt - Lita - is visiting. Lita’s a tall, slim woman (eek! A guess), in her...

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She was a lithe and lively flexible acrobatic cat.
She was doing exercises when her bench went splat. 
It’s a worn-out pumpkin, it was time, said...

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Sometimes I’ll rouse, in darkest night, to a twilit form, bending over me, so closely we’re sharing the same still air. I never startle, I...

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I remember the day Frankenstein was made,                  ...

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Soft light plays on
my shameless, lipstick rouged
lips - it's a party.

I hear OverDoz
advocating a “last kiss”
somewhere in the night.

Some faces always 
find a favorable light
-...

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the Horror
by Michael R. Burch

the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads

the Horror...

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I see them in reflections - the orange juice glass at breakfast or my iPhone where they can pop, like notifications - I keep my...

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Beside midnight's minting bare branches
   Dead fingered messages on bedroom pane scratches 
          ...

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Witches who snitch were caught slipping eye-of-newt
Into sandwiches of dog es but at first it did not compute.
What kind of a Halloween party is this?...

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

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Here sitting are my Poetry Soup Peeps,
Comfortably calm within their abode…
Don’t stare too long for they’ll give you the creeps,
Plus one of them may pass...

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She was the type who dressed only in darks,
a ‘non-conformist’ teen who bathed in snark,
in black lipstick her smile did hide,
row of piercings ran above...

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Encore, home, I hear a bang while entering the garage door
Indoor, my spouse is shaking, standing next to the drawer 
Unsure why she is possessing...

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