Child Horror Poems

[Fiction Out West]


A mining town, among others, had been shut down the longest. Long before the mines closed, and all the towns followed. As the...

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Nicola was naughty,
She wasn’t very nice,
She bit her mother,
And ate her white mice,
But Nicola’s brothers knew,
Exactly what to do,
They took her to the woodshed,
And sawed...

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          the loss of a child 
    defies the law of nature;
 ...

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The melodic tinkle of the music box moved her.
She arose with her pretty tresses and floor length silk
toward the shadows that possess treasures of death.
Like...

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Last weekend was “Parent’s” weekend at Yale. A time when parents are formally invited to visit. They have receptions and other events - but no...

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I don't want to hurt others with this thought
But my work can hurt others besides myself

I'm spinning, I don't know what to do
Like the ocean...

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Pronoun?

A pronoun no longer describes all
How you are born doesn’t count
A misguided child, backed to the hilt
A young soul, changed on a whim
Acted upon by...

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The Lynching

Oh how it is, to be an oak tree, 
one time a nut and now mighty. 
One time blooming in the bright sunlight, 
now...

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MockingBird

  Mockingbird can't fly,
  Mockingbird can't sing,
  She's not allowed to do anything.
  Cold naked, all alone, 
  in dark...

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Let me tell you the exact time you broke me
Left alone in a place so strange
Bullied me to the death of me 
Turn upside down...

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or  

The Prejudice Most Precious

"Mothers are the most maniacal of mass murderers."
-- not yours the child killed
by a teenage mass school shooter  

*...

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What's hiding in my bedroom?
Dark evil spirits of the night.
Always lurking in the shadows, 
Forbidden to breach the light.

Constant whispering while I sleep,
Ever tormenting restless...

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It was Christmas Day and a horrible incident was about to unfold.
When it happened, I was only four years old.
It was Mom's last Christmas, she'd...

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Vines curved around the thin pillars,
 Which supported the house that once held a family of three, 
And was now merely inhabited by insects and...

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No one prepared me for what I found
The fear 
Alive 
Suffocating 
Alone I stood 
An enemy without a face
A child I was 
Though only a...

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