Horrify Poems

No Joyriders

...When parents tell their offspring 
the definition of a fling
they also include
the story that may sound crude
about the birds and the bees
and Tarzan from the trees.
Children claim that they ex...
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Categories: horrify, education, funny,
Form: Rhyme

not pretty

...Fat from bottom to top
Layers of ugly make up 
A scene to horrify and shock 
To laugh at and mock 
A terror tale 
Of a deformed female 

Thursday
12/12/2002
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Categories: horrify, eve,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberUnder the cemetery of falling stars, beneath veils of eternity

...Under the cemetery of falling stars, beneath veils of eternity,
The end of any affair is death. She is my sanctuary,
An evanescent eye, slipping through the magical veil,
Far from the tribe of my ...
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Categories: horrify, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe as Characters of Narratives

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Each of us is born the main persona
in the narrative of his or her own life.
Through ever-changing atmosphere, 
supporting characters and diversity of settings, 
we help to mold the rising acti...
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Categories: horrify, life, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberStrumpa Strumpa Crumpetta Crumpetta

...Cackles were heard from down under on a hill far away 
fifty little saucy spiders scurry helter skelter out to play
A hefty witch stirs her cauldron next to her Bagoon 
snake eyes spoon an evil mu...
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Categories: horrify, halloween,
Form: Rhyme


It Is Shared Out

...A dog's job is to foes terrify,
Actors of scary films horrify,
The police a rogue identify,
Insurance firms one indemnify...

Science would laymen's claims verify,
Panels rigged elections nulli...
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Categories: horrify, allusion, community, creation, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBeyond the Corn Maze

...Far beyond the moonlit corn maze 
the silence of true terror lies 
within the bonfire’s burning blaze; 

‘Urban legend’ isn’t just a paraphrase; 
In short it may bring about your demise, 
far b...
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Categories: horrify, fear, feelings, halloween, october,
Form: Villanelle

Deluge of Despair

...Invited to a wedding, loafing around in the crowd
Surrounded by laughter and compliments loud
All the handsome men enjoying enviable lives
Having adorable children and beautiful wives
Like a stra...
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Categories: horrify, anxiety, depression, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

A Villanelle On Fate

...A Villanelle on Fate

Why do I weep at acts of fate
And gnash, and claw and cry
She weeps not for me, nor can relate

Though I ache and long to consummate
She feels no need to amplify
Why do ...
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Categories: horrify, writing,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberWords Dive Bomb Me

...Words dive bombed my hands and my feet
Pelting me like missiles.
Needles going into my pores.
I screamed.
I could not fend them off.
It felt like acupuncture on speed.

The words were scary an...
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Categories: horrify, word play, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHuman Nature

...We're all seduced by beauty,
perennially tempted by greed.
Ashamed to be seen naked
literally and metaphorically speaking.
We're uncomfortable being closely 
watched and studied.

Much like el...
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Categories: horrify, people, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse

Ragas - Part2

...Gliding gracefully, “G” came into my life.
Tall, lean, studious, specky guy.
His attitude was just too high!
He would never look eye to eye.
In a few months, we were cutie pies.
He told me, “He ...
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Categories: horrify, 12th grade, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTen Flies For Fun

...solidify
dragonfly
mortify
horrify

glorify
amplify
beautify
simplify

demystify
intensify

butterfly
floating by...
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Categories: horrify, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: List

Like Sphinx Rise From Ashes

...On the cusp of stepping into your promised land
Listen to the little voice 
Enjoining you to cling, to hold on for dear life to the hand
Of God where your boundless choice

Lies in wait to reset...
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Categories: horrify, poems,
Form: Free verse

The Man With the Fanatic Spectacles

...His spectacles were fanatic,
The way his cool sea - blue eyes peered through them.
The way even they couldn’t help but gleam when he smiled.
The black frames brought more mystery to his beautiful ...
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Categories: horrify, crazy, dark, devotion, dream,
Form: Free verse

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