Mystery Murder Poems

*Murder most foul. Rod Serling, Stephen King or Ellery Queen?


Picturesque place on the edge of nowhere, small town American life.
Suddenly subject to media glare, reports...

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Scratching Fanny in Cock Lane, a true tale
The year1762 a tale of murder or mystery they boast
 A teenage girl, a drunken parish clerk, and...

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The vasectominator. 

His name is the vasectominator, and he’s as dangerous as an alligator. 

Daytime he’ll perform your vasectomy, and night-time he’s you’re worst enemy....

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The rain it pelts
The lightning crashes
A shadowy figure
Through streetlight dashes

The strangers meet
The wine is poured
To infiltrate
The secrets stored 

The army man
The cook, the nurse
Field questions...

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He got buried six feet under
No eyes to see the thunder
He has no heart to feel sorry
He has no soul to feel any worry
He simply...

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In love and war, they say all is fair,
But once, when I took the marriage dare
Feelings, dark as night,
Burdened me, an angry fight.
While I rested...

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Dead End Street

He is waiting in the dark
In the smoky dark under the railway sidings.
He is nervous in the black
In the black of the black...

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This is the tale of Sarah Pike
Who lived in a cottage at Hangman’s Dyke,
Twixt Preston and old Burnblack town
She walked the byways up and down.
Travellers...

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It seems like the darkness,
Risking tears, - erasing the prayers
So sensitive, kissing away all the fears
Dancing through the leaves, enchantment
Like winds, collecting all the light
In...

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My friend, don’t struggle so
Not much longer to go
No more working for the all-mighty buck
No more lusting after the…
Ahhh your dirty mind 
Will be the...

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A movie about horror
Characters playing with mirror
Reflecting images of furor
Dissecting with knives of terror

Villains of phantasm
Heels of sarcasm
Viewers of spasm
Breaking apart like chasm

Stories of apparition
Product...

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The bar door is ajar only fading voices
echo into the void, from nowhere...and afar!

Here n there, trash drifts
ghosts in flickering neon 

Broken floating bloated 
dead...

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Lurching out of the door into darkness 
A street full of people, bodies pass n collide

Plunging from dark to light!

Not looking at or thinking of...

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A Parlor Game

"No whodunnit has one clue as to who really done it."
-- Reality clued in  
  
*   *  ...

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I met a lonely man,
While riding on the train.
He spoke of many things,
From happiness to pain.

He shared his views on life,
And people that he met.
But...

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