Halloween Imagism Poems

Costuming Halloween

Masque my visage fast!
…So my eyes bulge out, drunken red, and give me
    purpled, hairy lips and cheeks to complete 
My...

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The darkness reveals 
Shadows on the wall
There are two shadows
The first shadow seen
A hallway with stairs
Then a skeleton
Staring at the darkness
In the hallway on the...

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Cool crisp air blows wildly 

The cool air causing shivers to run down those who are brave enough to venture out into the cold

From afar...

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laundry lines
wooden clothespins
white sheets 
flapping...
ghosts of my
imagination...
like Halloween 
this year
disappeared...

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Hovering spirits in the nights obsidian sky, 
avoid the moons lemony light.
Grinning ghouls leer at costumed children trick and treating from, behind every skeletal tree...

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I'm stuck in this confusion of probability
Assuming a character to play my role in reality
Just playing an ideal identity
My life feels like a dress up
Living...

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Deep into the forgotten land, where all your Nightmares becomes a reality. 
The little light given to see was the full moons, 
The hunting sounds...

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Haunted and motionless sounds. 
Creaking sounds of the wooden door, 
Howling of the wolf's 
Haunted sounds of mysterious creatures 
Dry and thirsty for human blood...

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through a mud stained field
and thickets galore
mountaintops blue in the haze
walked through hayfield stubble
with a damp, faithful dog

I am anticipating Halloween
but thoughts dissolve quickly
in fields...

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Away in the night on All Hallow Eve 
	we thought we saw the shadow of a thief.
Away in the night I saw a black cat
	being...

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(Faculty X)


Cricket

Cricket cricket 

Cricket cricket cricket

Cricket cricket cricket cricket

Cricket

(Silence)


Cricket cricket

Silence....

Silence....

Silence....

(There's somebody behind you...... )

(footsteps....)


FADE TO BLACK.....








**Experimental in the spirit of Halloween**...

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Tables groaned with the weight of food
What a sight to behold, slimy eyeballs
floating around in green lizard soup

Skewered brains covered with dragons
blood and snakes venom...

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INTO THE NIGHT 

Go not into the night 
For the darkness is the ward
Of hade’s most tempestuous soul

Wander not into this godless realm
Where angels fear...

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Written by Gail DeBole

My laughing paintbrush
Amuses the canvas with
Many mornings and tickles
Two half-polished pumpkins.

Cobwebs of cornstalk
Casually poise on the
Pumpkins and branch into
The air like pick-up...

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it,s halloween
my canteen is full of caffeine
my cuisine is green jelly beans  filled with vaccine
i,m a alien queen trying to fit  into earth,s,s...

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