Autumn Murder Poems

Shadows stretch out across this lost highway. 
Cool winds dance dying leaves as the sunsets cast.

At the edge of sky, hues of gold and Crimson...

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Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Odd objects frolic within
Strange dominions for
It's all Hallow's Eve.
The night of souls;
looking for lost lives...
While children play merrily
In the chilly tinged air,
Of winters coming Dead.
It...

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1.
Highest frigid mount
For a private, odd god walks
betrayed by the ghost

2.
Frosty timberland
A female, great Panther swims
in spite of the frost

3.
A snowy autumn
when a wooden, tall...

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Earth black
ancient lands
red skies orange 
sands jagged jaded 
two tower stands stand
reaching 
into a dark sky 
storm horizons ride 
the edge of shadows 
Blacken earth
Ruined...

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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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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass

Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

These skies
are...

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I am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
         ...

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Today is Enough

The morning came early. 
In fact I was up all night. 
I watched the coming and going…
of the stars.

God’s work ever at hand,...

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11:59pm Halloween Eve 
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black clouds hang lifeless
along the sleepy hollow 
a dark shadow drifts
peering from her balcony 
her tiny voice shrieks murder

thick air rising fast
gasping...

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"50 Words for Poe: Foxglove"



What goes through the mind 
of Winter, when you are Autumn
just past Spring
Sometimes you’d squeeze IT
in the hot spaces left-of-centre
with the...

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Twenty four dead roses
Heat waves and reposes
No one knows what never was
Autumn breezes sing in melancholy hues

Flowers dance around paupers grave
Buried now yet never saved
From...

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Why can't you love a poet?

Why can't you love a soul that wanders, 

they're best when they're alone.

Does she scare you with her names, 

and...

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Kill me


Evil creeps here and there
All around, and in the dank misty air

I can taste the blood on my lips
I shiver, at the thrill of...

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Two to start
hidden getaway planned
hooded by woods
secretly intimate
a silent motor
black search began
waiting with accompaniment
tap - tap - tap
drowsy state triumphs
a starred awakening
sirens blaring, lights flashing
escorted...

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