Halloween Introspection 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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Halloween night
with
a
bright orange jack-a-lantern moon
hanging in the spooky sky 
while
chills running
up and down
our spines
as
we 
walked and whistled gently
pass the graveyard still...

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Once upon a night so bleak,
frozen silent laid the creek --
air of death, pushed, swore
and swore...as if were fists
pounded the frail, wood door;

shutters noised, bolting...

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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Despite what some folks say about it
Seasonal depression is not a fantasy.
It's that overwhelming feeling of dread
That one might not make it through
Another unbearably cold...

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Scattered images flicker,
   as an evening passes:                ...

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They're gathering their broomsticks
and clastic lunar hats
Sohrgetting all their toads and frogs
for what we've known as spats

And delving down a one way crete
for wicked tracious...

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There is fear
when the loss 
perceived 
greater…
my example
the ego
of youth;

not to be 
measured
in quantities
but by frailties--
a small hole
can sink
a ship;

so early-on
we learn
and don armor,
make distances…
strength...

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upon waking from a splendid plunge 
   into the depths of deep dreamy restful sleep
anchors away set adrift this body electric, 
 ...

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Everybody has secrets they don't want anyone to know
Everyone has a facade that they put on to show
Nobodys life is troublefree only varying degrees
Its so...

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Amidst the fine feetle of veggies in the garden of truth 
Stands a monstrous scarecrow.  
Of a fungoid parched face and a half baked...

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Goethe’s Emissary
 
Mephisto-Hereistoo
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust on the Brocken summit
Go our own sweet way for show.

Walpurgis Nacht’s spirit of perversity 
Mephistophelian 
Time now for your...

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SCORNED BY  BLIND FAITH
WE SOUGHT, FOUGHT!
CON TEMP TABLE I N
EVER Y  OU T  H ATE FUL
TREASONOUS RIVALRY SOLIPSISTIC ENMITY
HOSTILE GALENTRY
PREDICTABLE VOCABULARYS
SCORN AND...

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13
riding out the night 
searching for that solar storm
instead, up ahead
columns of wind 
breach the scene
green trees clobber the place 
as bedlam pulls out the...

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