War Halloween Poems

"Mythic"

Overseeing the savages,
the gods watch from their war room above,
pinning their voodoo dolls on the table

Federations of strange angels
about to cut through 
the silver lining...

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"PreOccupation"

spiced

cut up poetry
divides 
numbers 

intentional 
drivel moved 
to the side

on a blank page
into neat lines
sucked up

a much loved 
addiction 
novel and short

Pre Occupation 
of all...

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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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Enemy Mine


An enemy imagined is greater than an enemy that is real. For a real enemy can be killed, but an imagined enemy is invincible....

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big eyed owl
all puffed up
tormented by wind
whistling tree branches
tick tock of clock tower
dog wolfs himself up

identical black cat howlers
tug of war
puffing
spurting
spitting
sneaky skeleton ticks and tocks

clicky...

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The reading witch is unaware
She is being given a mean cat stare
Her book is open; the words are keen.
She is excited to devour this on...

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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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BLACK AS WINTER'S COMING FIRE
ETERNAL THERMOFROST
OCTOBER'S INFINITE INFERNO
THE EVE OF THE HALLOW SON
COMETH AT MIDNIGHT
JACK O’ LANTERN SCREAMS
CHAOS WILL COVER YOU
DARKENING YOUR SOUL
BLANKET YOUR EYES
STEEL...

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Pallbearers filled the bus
 
Off to funerals in an angry rush
 
It’s the wicked; they say who have no peace

 That’s why the Pallbearers get...

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Roads covered by dark night,
Thou there is plenty of orange light.

Samhain has arrived,
Remplir your bags to strived.

Headstone on the left,
Don’t worry, toffees won’t be theft.

Trick...

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No One
by Michael R. Burch

No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses...

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This year's Halloween edition....





"Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines"



There approaches 
One

Light bringer
rides a dead pony

albino 
red eyed, no gun

or so 
the story goes

pale 
as death

hear...

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He was tall and lanky and belonged on an Illinois farm.
We called him Abe. He was simple but did no harm.
He spent many an afternoon...

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Is the Devil real? Who really rules the world?


Some say the Devil is just the evil inside each of us. If that is true then...

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SUCKERS WERE NEEDED 
TO KEEP THE GAME ALIVE.

HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS
OF INNOCENT DIED.

THOSE IN CHARGE 
CONTINUED TO LIE.

THOSE WHO SUFFERED
BROKE DOWN AND CRIED.

A MAN MADE VIRUS
THAT...

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