Short Gargoyles Poems

lazy city stroll
gargoyles monitor our steps
Paris streets enchant...

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red-carpet sunset
takes evening by her cold hand —
crows adorn the eaves...

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Sepulchral shadows
Like gargoyles laughing madly
Haunt the painted walls....

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The hammer of Zeus
Thrust thy nail in Hades’ coffin
Gargoyles hoist thy sails...

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Gargoyles
Water Spitters
Seething, Guarding, Vexing
Warding Off Near Evil Spirits
Legends...

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King fisher nestled                  					        
picturesque frozen blue brook	 					 
cold steam gargoyles lap...

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Brownies, goblins and gargoyles too
Entered the laces of a good girl’s shoe
She danced up a storm
With my cousin Norm
At the end, she had plenty of woo....

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Five ghostly cats rose from the bowels of Jack
Appeared silently with no clatter or clack.
How did that jack-o-lantern create those ghoulish cats?
Wondered gargoyles, ghouls and ebony bats....

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I had seen crazy gargoyles before
Anyway, I thought I had
I thought I had

But this guy was something else
With his wolf-like chin
And his oversized smile

He was grinning like he had just had a lobotomy
Perhaps he had
Perhaps he had…....

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Frightening witches are scary, ghost and ghouls are all a wreck.
Horrible gargoyles and vampires will bite your little neck.
My four-year-old nephew shushed me. I thought what the heck?
You are scaring the jack-o-lanterns," He said. “Stop Uncle Beck!"...

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Religious votives
light a somber lair.
A hole I fathered
with rhinestones of doubt
and swatches of fault.

Sentinels loom -
vapid gargoyles
crouch in ghostly
contemplation

ogling my
handiwork.
Poised to pounce

when the
flames die

out....

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Zeus fought the elves and the gargoyles for Stonehenge picnicking rights
Stonehenge laughed at this, thinking Zeus was insane
And of course he might have been but who in their right mind
will tell that to a god?
Even if it is a little god
not the big one....

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Sunflower faerie exited the field, heading toward a new meadow
Hundreds of sunflower heads turned and watched her go
Lost another one, two of them said sadly.
They could not keep a faerie after she turned thirteen.
The age when faeries and girls turn into ogres and gargoyles....

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ghostly nuances
haunted houses galore
madcap witches

trick or treaters
giggling with gusto
hoping to be scared

dracula howls
terrifyingly real
vampire sandwich

ghoulish gargoyles
hiding among princesses
going house to house

dance of the weirdos
octobers insanity
no masks needed...

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She masquerades by candle light
hope unparaded
triumphs
Lady Eleanor will you dream tonight
waiting for the stone gargoyles
by the wayside
by someones achilles heel
you are the slayer
akin to something sinister
you walk to the tower
where you can see enlarge
your designs
by the misty morning



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Poetry is a sumo wrestler in honey 
throwing chickens into the mouth of a tornado
Poetry is a magic pen that slams words down hard onto a page, 
Intriguing a mind
Who has no idea from whence she came 
Poetry is an entity with a mind of its own, 
playing with faeries and gargoyles.
Poetry is my pirate queen...

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flaking paint
on peeling buildings
throws
clock fingers
through the last plumes of yesterday
Argus stained waiters
Gargoyles chewing on cigars
Smile till swede
Worshiping the harlequins
Sailors with denim eyes
velvet dolls with braided  smiles
worshiping the dreams of night
and the Serpentine dulls grey, disowned...

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gargoyles and ginseng
    ukeleles and eucharists
  poinsettias and pancreases
    Thracians and Thermopylaes

  all of the above, some of the above
    one of the above, none of the above ~
  everything, something, one thing, no
    thing in common with Brahman
      Brahmin
       Bar Man
           or
        Bra-Man...

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I will build my own garrison
With gargoyles a plenty
My troops led by Harrison
Who has the confidence of many

You cannot stop me, Mom.
I am on a mission from God.
Ice cream? It’s the bomb.
Garrison can wait he says with a nod.

After the sweet treat
He climbs up in his bed
To dream of his own army
He is three, our young Ted....

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Welcome me not for
"I" have been here before
That strong luminence only 
ancient night's recall
From my lofty throne angels soar
bleakly-shining they bring you more

Welcome me not for 
all other god's will concour
When the sun chose to rule dayly;
gargoyles, vampires, wolverines and all
bowed to me for they saw-
"I" only could give them more...

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When I was splashing in the lane,
The colors of the rain
Were ribboning my April sky
Bright hues of years gone by.

Too soon, the boy became
A gambler in a game
Of  crushing odds and devil-loaded dice,
The weather weeping ice.

Maturity.  I damn the dice that roll
And dare not probe my soul
Where equilibrium is reaved in half,
Where perching gargoyles laugh....

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carved jack-o-lanterns 
a sentinel of pumpkins
vegetable gargoyles

an ebony cat
a marble gravestone scratchpad
feline familiar

wolves howl at the moon
bat wings whisper in the dark
creatures of the night

monsters in costume
banging on neighborhood doors
shouts of trick-or-treat

Halloween; conjures the dead;
fueling feelings of dread....

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One night, I stumbled impetuously in what seems like a market
Where gargoyles and gangrenes were sold in secret and hidden places
I watched the seller closely and a gelded man! I saw signs of
Pity,  I felt for him until he started hinting at shooting cupid's arrow at me
What an irony! I said to myself until I found out that I was lost in the market of gargoyles and gelded men!!!...

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There survives a burg, strangled by,

A fume as thick as thieves,

Where soaring glass stalagmites screen,

The adroit aggrieved.

Skyscrapers and broad avenues,

Where vast trains shunt and squall,

Where soaring glass stalagmites screen,

The vestige’s caterwaul.

Where night tide is perennial,

The gargoyles chill and ward,

Aged curves and finials resist,

Thick gnarling walls contort....

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Side stepping love's starfish sun bathing about, time's shores....
While amoeboid parasites these sponges in resilient, take up residence
Atop her capital hill; residuum's resonant evil kismet's, true, liverwort lobbyist 
Waterspout gargoyles autism's algae tortuous angleworms this, immoral's realities ?
Shuttered truths antipodes their view; his shad's tenement tete-a-tete's, voodoo virtuosity....

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