Rose Horror Poems

The gathered, outside my house, lingered long,
As if it were Halloween night -
A rogue's gallery of goblins and ghouls,
They were an unwanted sight.

Their faces had...

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I knowest there'd be rime aplenty,
forthwith I see frozed sea of many
unlearned sorts who'd unread apiece
of Dante's acclaimed centerpiece
for had they'd all, with certainty ......

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“‘til death do us part” the vampire once said
 to his pallid bride, her throat blushing red.
 The guests grew squeamish at what they just...

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Lure victims and collect scarlet stains,
her tissues turn red when she bleeds; 
Feather headpiece and cocktail gloves,
another smother as she slowly feeds;

Deceptive look head to...

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V.
He could hold his breath over a minute,
bullets hit water, didn’t penetrate it,
he’d used this trick before against his foes,
water stopped slugs fast, not many...

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Something inside me is calling
Some things are caught on thorny thoughts 
Sometimes I radiate and deviate as thoughts linger

I bleed icy dreams
Dark as ink, silent...

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Afterglow helio as the rose like the blood and the red shine on the earth allochromatic was so horrendous it was so wonderful as fire...

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IV.
Fronds whipped their faces, they dashed through the trees,
more shrill, raspy growls rose behind them,
creatures crashed through forest, giving them chase,
they weren’t that fast, but...

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..... SONG OF DEATH ......

Tick tok, Tick tok,
In the past, goes the clock,
Where there lived a girl...
In a cottage, white like pearl...

She used to sing...

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Oh, I remember...
A most painful anniversary. I'll never forget
Where I was that fateful September day.
I still vividly remember what I was doing
And exactly how I...

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...He remembered his childhood,
Cajun stories of the bayou,
and one of an old witch doctor,
they claimed he still practiced voodoo.

He had seen the man once or...

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So red the rose a crimson divinity 
Thorns sharp cruel dangerous  
Crush the petals so gently, so soft
Thorns are long, how they prick thee

A...

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I’m a dark, lonely night
With no hope in sight
As I sigh, “Leave me alone”
Tears streaming a path
With only fear to say,
“Leave me alone” …
Melancholy is...

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The Beast
It rose one dreary morning from 
the cavern where it slept
unfurled its wings and took to flight
across the countryside it swept.
With ghostly eyes and...

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Thunderheads tumble 
in from the north
the sky is 
Dull lead dark 
at its core a storm 
waiting to be born
Thunder clouds like
that of different deities...

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