Short Frights Poems

Halloween is here,
a costume and candy cheer,
frights and scares are near....

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Edgar Allen Poe
Shocked the world with darkened prose.
To form in minds the various frights 
And keep them waking through the nights....

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Black as the darkest of nights
Haunting beneath city lights
A stray to bring chills
To those who get thrills
From eerie cats causing frights...

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The dark of night intensifies 
People’s frights

The dawn of light illuminates 
People’s sights

The twilight of vesper lights
Divides the wrong from the right...

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sleepless nights
with no frights

yesterday's battles
caused some rattles

payment is made
poems won't fade

so the light will always shine
making my life very fine...

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peace like the river~

        waves of sea~

calls to the very heart of me~

       still of the night~

       calming my frights~

washes over me in the dead

        of the night~...

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Pitch black in the morning and night
Time for a time change daylight's taken flight
Worst time of the year
Could cause peril I fear 
Humans need sunlight to avoid spooky frights...

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Apparition 

Eerie 
Dreary, 
Leery, 
Scary, 
Rebel rousing ghost, eerie, dreary, kook, 
Spreader of frights, leery, scary spook—
    

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 17, 2010
Poetic form: Tyburn...

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Scrolling

Endlessly

They look more like witches than saints
Smiles cruel and angelic

I'm allergic to their bared teeth

There are more phantoms than people
And we're all celebrating the ghosts
Hands together
A technological seance...

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Newlyweds experience such happiness and bliss

But once the newness wears off, they notice something's amiss

Hassling over financial frights and dealing with meddling mothers

The once joyous couple may prefer the company of Insignificant others...

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You think you know me, but you ne'er will


                    These hells plunge leagues too deep to fill


                              Such horrors and frights are mine to earn


          And warrant no flesh but this ... will burn....

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Halloween frights creep ever nearer,
their mask-less faces are peeping,
squinting in the daylight.

The children are restless
they tug at invisible hands
pulling us away from what we fear.

Hours are bewitching the sun.
Monsters roam Party Shops
haunted by our bad dreams....

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A passionate embrace of last reserve
Steel tracks taking their twisted curves
Harrowing frights dark of hue
Speed demons singing the blues
Over and over they are off the rail
Careen the cliff and off she sails
Top notch is their deadly reserve
Drops of pain the only preserves
Let the games begin...

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There's people who want to think for you
There's people who think it's right
There's people who haven't any sense
and still think you're their's to fight

So who would you ask for any sense
when asking yourself what's right
When all of your troubles are in expense
of learning from other's frights...

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A mother strives to love her child,
To shield it from the woes and cares,
The strife and hardship man endures.

The world is full of traps and snares
That Mother always frights away,
The evil beast that haunts our dreams.

We run to her in times of need
But turn away when she needs us. 

March 1984...

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I sit in the dark, electricity gone
pondering options, will we have lights by dawn?
storm has taken out power, pink electricity in the sky
a monsoon-like shower, cannot help wondering why.

other people have lights;
we have not had ours for hours
this blackness gives me frights
where is our electric power?...

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Am I losing my grip on Reality?
Or is Reality losing it's hold on me?
To see the things that I can see,
stuff that simply shouldn't be!
Wondrous delights and disturbing frights,
all the creatures that move in the night.
Visions of the Divine,with the Devil entwined,
are all things I see in My mind!

©John-Ovan.P.Hull...

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The dagger has no name 
Hater knows no shame 
The purge is underway 
Bloody showers rivaling the rain
Terrified frights, rattling the bone 
Come one, come all
Many watch as the suspenseful white woman is bound to fall
The night is all but through
More violent neighbors whom you never knew
Time is the enemy
Killing became its remedy...

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As long as there has been photography,
there has also been pornography. 
Dirty pictures fill whole magazines. 
The photos depicts sexy scenes.
Digital shots are found on internet sites.
What can be seen may cause frights.
Some folks get kicks looking at what is shown. 
All I have to say is "to each his own".

Inspired by another member's poem....

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With the presence of gravity
We seem to move on flat surfaces
Instead of curve surfaces
And we have no danger of 
Falling out and disappeared into space
A parental love
Is just like the force of gravity
Drawing us heartily close and tight
Freeing us from
Frights and nervousness
Tensions and pressures
Helplessness and disappointments...

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Beware
the frights

Hollow
night calls

Chilling
Blood screams

Silent 
heart cries

Weary
beings...


Ghoulish
tears stream...

Crimson,
cut-throats...
  
Come see
heads roll....

Ka-thunk,
Ka-thunk...

Evil's
a--foot!

Oh No ~
must Go...





This Halloween piece is written for Donna Golden's Footle Fright Contest...

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Here among pillows and blankets,
I lay waiting for dreams,
To be taken away by the night
To a place that's seldom seen.

Will I dance and play,
And sing songs in the night?
Or shall the darkness take me,
And show me all that frights?

Who knows for sure; 'cause I don't.
I just have to brave the plane;
Of astral life and demons dark
And pray there is no pain....

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WHAT WILL I SAY?
THAT WOULD BE HEARD.....
WHY DO THEY THINK I LIED?
WHEN MY HEART HURTS
ALL YET IN SCRAMBLED NATURE
I BUT STILL SPEAK
OH TEARS ALARMING FILL MY EYES
MY WHOLE BODY BRUISED WITH FEARS!
OF CEASELESS BITES AHEAD
OH HAVE MERCY
ON MY FAST BEATING HEART
PANTING FROM THNE FRIGHTS
THAT INFLICTED ON IT
ALL LAID TO REST IN PIECES
MY LONELY AND SCRAMBLED HEART....

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Tangled shackles ,
finite spaces.
From life to end,
One hope in the eyes,
To meet infinite ways.
The needs and the breads.....
We only care.
Who constantly stare....
Seeking liberation.
Times facing nastiest sunlights
And the human who frights!.....
Me,you,is we all stand accountable.
Will take a lot grit!
To free the spirit...
The day will come....
The day will come....

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Portentous sky before the plum daybreak.
Just as night frights vanish, fading away.
Portentous sky before the plum daybreak.
The beauty and awe of a fresh day sake
What does it matter if you snooze or wake?
Such grace from an endless danger display
Portentous sky before the plum daybreak.
Just as night frights vanish, fading away

Written: April 26, 2023...

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