Long Bogeymen Poems

ETHREE

Witch
Sneering
Bubbly
A pimply nose
To be feared by all
So Halloween friendly

More terrifying than ghosts
Placing eye of newt in cauldrons
Pure evil in our fantasy books
Horribly foul and mean in faerie tales.
A frozen heart places children in ovens

Crones of...

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Home is Where

Home is where
your first and lost loves linger
the scent of Cusson’s Imperial Leather
and lavender, like a silken scarf
curls and twines around your head, 
her marshmallow touch,
teasing your memory.

Home is where
fresh baked bread and apple...

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All was dark and quiet in the house as I got up to pee
Not a sound from a mouse, but I could hear my hammering heart inside me
I was so scared of the dark and...

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My country is the beautiful sun
My country is not the hard winter
My country is an often green Eden
Always languid and tropical at dawn.

It’s a country where the crowing of roosters
Revives everybody every morning
It’s a country...

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My country is full of fun
My country is heated by the sun
All day and night long
My country is a tropical song.

My country has the best alarm clocks
The roosters start singing at four in the morning
And...

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Happy Halloween

Ghosts
Ghouls
Goblins
Spirits
Wines
Pumpkins and their spices
Jackolaterns and their flickering candles lights
Scarecrows
Spiders and their webs
Skulls
Bats
Rats
Black Cats
Crows
Skeletons
Undead
Witches their spells and witchcraft
Warlocks their spells and witchcraft
Necromancers dead-talking
Divinations
Ancestors
Rituals
Rites
Vampires
Werewolves
Mummies
Shapeshifters
Gargoyles
Bogeymen
Monsters
Creatures
Creepy Crawlers
Grim Reapers
Devils
Cemeteries
Tombstones
Crosses
pentagrams
pentacles
tricks or treats
truths or dares
haunted houses
haunted hayrides
Netherworlds
Paranormal
Macabre
Weird
Ghastly
Gorey
Creepy
Cute
Nerdy
Sexy
costumes
Food
Harvest
Candy
Festivities
Beautiful Decay of Nature
Full Moons
Thinnest...

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What do children dream of when they go to sleep at night
and do their hearts beat faster when the world is out of sight
do they dream of Christmas or a birthday yet to come
of happy...

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It's ok to cry
If you feel dead inside
And you have run out of hiding places 
That can lift and warm your pride
From the swings and slides
That use to be fairground rides
Way back when you where...

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More than a pot of gold awaits beyond the rainbow’s end;
Leprechaun’s are of the faerie clan and they play tricks.
The clever little bugger’s are sure, your mind to send;
on fascinating journeys that’ll leave you in...

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Fundamentally, we cannot change who we are at our core.
The only option allotted us,
is how we choose to live in the here and now.
We can meld with the darkness under a cloak of lies
or embrace...

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Hush now, my sweet angel,
you needn't fear the dark.
Let mommy tuck you in
as you dream of the park.

No more silly stories
of being scared at night.
It's merely a bad dream
everything is all right.

There are no bogeymen
what...

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There's more than golf balls on the moon, 
More than stars and stripes, 
More than lunar rover tracks, 
And two subsatellites. 
Four hundred thousand pounds of junk 
Contaminate the place. 
It's sad to think our...

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Memories
fuel nostalgic dreams
tethered to
family
and innocence; lost to time...
when I was a child.

Bogeymen,
back then, were pretend...
I'd stay out
all summer,
playing till it was too dark
to see anything.

Supper was
served at the table,
mum would cook
a hot meal
and we kids...

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