Halloween Muse Poems

"PreOccupation"

spiced

cut up poetry
divides 
numbers 

intentional 
drivel moved 
to the side

on a blank page
into neat lines
sucked up

a much loved 
addiction 
novel and short

Pre Occupation 
of all...

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"The Real World"

what you gonna do
when your world 
is wrapped up in love

and all you've loved
taken away from you,
a hollow heart remains

an empty vacuum 
the...

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“Chameleons”

Chameleons
many shades 
of blue 

pretty beautiful
things given time
change their colours

not so 
delphinium
belladonna blue

Blue sky 
hypnotises
blooms 

face to the sun 
smiling to
wave Apollo in 

subtle fragrance...

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"Pluto’s Dark Abode" 

they say you can feel her 
walking through you 
it only happens when 
the frost and mist is about 
where hidden wild...

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"The-Were-Never-There" 


Corrections serve
their superiority 

a place of ere
sucked out 
by the vacuum 
of those in need
of love 
messages buried
remain watching 
far removed, undone

the possessive 
pronouns
cursed...

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"Small Mutinies"



So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps 
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky 
cashmere blankets 
of insecure insincerity
simple scribbles 
bleating from...

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in the dark of night…
beneath my confidante the moon
thoughts in and out wander 
no constraints and unguarded 
my heart on display without fear

  ...

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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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(*The Gift)
This here is a side trip, nothing more,
To our country home far and away.
Grandparents own one by the seashore,
This a gift, gramps in-law and...

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she wears her
imaginary
Halloween
costume
every day

it's not
scary 
she's
just an
ordinary

angel...

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halloween in
i mean in
western

pennsylvania
before there
was non

existent climate
change where
before now 

my eyes
yes suddenly
predictably on

my grandson stopped
about how hot
it was under

his costume so
i continued to
pull off his

face...

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your trick
is your
treat

what shall
we dress
as this

Hallowmas
Eve let's
be

masked as
opposites
so if you

are a mouse
then i'm
a cat

but if i'm
a dog
then

you're
a cat
just

like that
and if i
came

then 
you'd go 
so when...

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Halloween only haunts just once a year
But my muse haunts me each and everyday
Thoughts run though my mind
I cannot escape them my muse haunts me

Evil,...

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Charlie Brown got rocks
In his Halloween treat sack...
Snoopy made them friends...

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i celebrate having
met great poets 
David and especially
Maureen both from
way up north but
not in the sense of
north that Johnny
Horton sung about
because his song was
about Alaska...

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