Halloween Poetry Poems

The yard felt evil,
I could not explain it
Until I turned
And saw the clowns
On a tiny ferris wheel
Turning slowly

They were chanting
In a monotone kind of way
It...

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iv.
By Thanksgiving, their machinations no longer discreet,
Voices from the walls and vents, betrayed their deceit.
My family revealed as demons in flesh-and-blood guise,
Christmas Day was the...

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i.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse.
My wife and son lay silent, all tucked...

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Do you remember the way Christmas was,
when we gathered with our family and friends.
Cutting down a tree from out in the woods,
and hot chocolate never...

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Skeletal feet clickity clack,
a zombie child chewing bubble gum
giggles.

I have set a cackling witch at my door
but none are sacred tonight,
yet the cold hand of...

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Winter bones are rattling.
A late autumn wind is burying the fallen.
Frost stipples the light of dawn.

Storm gulls and hawks
have chased the songbirds away.
My black coat...

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I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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This land of entitlement 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping 
clutching 
scraping this infernal sky!

Arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunted like...

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Poetry Journals
Poetry's a way of writing a journal
Of things joyful, sad or controversial 
Poets write of friendship and memoirs shared
Or despair at end of a...

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Love is most busy when 
It's  at dutiful play 
Carelessly In the rays 

Thy Great father shall notify
You as to the ways in which...

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I knew a cat once named Peaches. He was an all-black cat, but not one of those that could be described like a “shadow”, never...

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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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From colors of dresses to colors in diversity ,
From colors of food  to colors in mehndi ,
Togetherness is the key !

Whether it’s Dusshera ,...

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We are giddy,
witches wear fish-net stocking
and black garters

or dress up
as naughty female devils
our minds run after.

Party shops are
sexualizing fantasy
nighty gowns
and ruby
high-heeled slippers.

Halloween’s a dirty dream
for...

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