Nature Horror Poems

The resonance of the old vampire’s voice
holds the soul of the French Quarter;
Thick as a rich pot of red beans and rice 
just waiting to...

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"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. There is a...

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who then rings
thy solitary bell
whose voice cuts through
the mist

and lowly darkness
winter’s eve
there far off 
screaming fox

when unseen eyes
then look upon
from trees that hide
in cloak

and footsteps
cast...

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From a comet’s tail, like pepper on a meal
sprinkling down on the land
upon the earth, the contagious death
the cleansing of God’s hand

Genocide made, from a...

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there’s a blackness
and she’s a corvid
through a hag stone’s eye
I know she has them
but I cannot feel them

  feathers

  behind me






...

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Earth Eulogy

By Mark D. Stucky
She was a good planet,
put to death in her prime
by a pandemic of people.
Homo-sapiens was a disease
with mutating and metastasizing
technological and...

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Travel once on a haunted train,
a taste may make you lose your mind;
Railroad tracks leave the world behind 
dismantled boxcars keep rolling;
Phantom mouths continue screaming,
they...

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

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She was ensnared within her gardens,
Amid a tempest of roses,
Entangled in the mournful whispers of… 
Weeping willows,
From noon till night.

Within her bustling haven, 
the envy...

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The night comes like a thief, 
We shudder like a leaf, 
We're afraid of its early arrival, 
What it usually brings is not anything trivial....

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In shadows deep where darkness hides
There lies a bag of eight-legged horror
A bag of spiders where dread resides
Creeping and crawling, causing sorrow

With nimble legs they...

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"We can now destroy or we can cherish - the choice is ours" David Attenborough

in the darkness, voices are crying
earth aches but no oath is...

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caught in frigid traps
seals struggle against the sea…
population culls

*Strong waves hurled seals against rock walls, killing some....

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The war was fought.
But the warriors thought it wise
to change  sides
time and again....

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Today I went for a hike up a rocky desert hill
A jackrabbit crossed my trail
Peacefully hopping through his daily routine
I saw partridge birds
Consorting about over...

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