Short Specters Poems

slowly erupting 
beautiful woodland specters
beware Death Angels...

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Lights emanating
from the grim candelabras.
Specters are coming..
is it just a phantasm?
No, 'tis but some foliage....

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Fearing ghosts is not foolish if they are ghoulish
for evil specters might haunt you Halloween night...

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nodding in sky
a blue flower moon-
month’s treasure

specters dance
swirling spirals-
equinox 

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I am not enough.
I have no time. Delightful
excuses: specters
who will wander in my tomb
and sing the songs of regrets.
...

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From the cemetery no specters arose
Why the teens then took flight, they did not disclose
What had incurred
Not seen, but heard
Discovered, because of the caws of the crows!...

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All Hallows' Eve
Ghastly, Macabre
Haunting, Shivering, Bewitching
Specters, Shadows, Saints, Seraphs
Praying, Glorifying, Rejoicing
Holy, Divine
All Saints' Day...

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Puffballs ring the forest evergreens;
In the peripheral they dance;
Flickering energy lights
Bobbing magic specters
Woodland fairies work
Their magic with
Delightful
Mystic
Ease.
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I can't function.
Can't think.
Can barely breathe.
I'm so tired, but sleep is gone.
It comes, and I am haunted by phantoms and specters.  

Useless
Unimportant 
Guilty
Blameful
Sinful 
Small

Restless....

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a carnelian 
crystal flow reflects sunset
blanket of white peace

woody specters dot
painted skies on horizon
icy riverbank

crayola color
blending in duplicity 
harmonic nature

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over and over they tumble, colorful specters playing

the dying leaves of autumn have one last chase, before passing.

they will sleep in painted canvas ground, recycling themselves by spring.

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A mute cacophony rings between my ears.
The silent dungeonous din of the pelting stone past.

And in that roaring, the hauntings come 
and the black dog, waiting, salivating, silently saunters alongside the 
specters and, heavy, blankets me in darkness....

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He heard the train

A distant sound in dark of night

He heard the train

A lonely cry, a sad refrain

Like ghostly specters taking flight
Invisible to human sight

He heard the train


written by Steven Mossburg 7-21-11
For Rondelet Contest...

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October evening, gold and gray
Storm clouds gather up above
Winds will whisper, trees will sway
With barn owls and with mourning doves

October evening, gray and gold
Soon the lantern shall be lit
And hoards of specters, young and old
Like moths, will all be drawn to it....

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Far away in time in space
Watching blindly from a long dead place
Phantom light millennia old
Shining through emptiness and endless cold
Sparkling as brightly in the night sky
As a twinkling tear from an ancient cry
Gracing, with diamonds, the celestial sphere
Specters of life from far off frontiers...

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When bread
is this good
a morsel

will suffice
and when wine
is this good

a sip is enough
for the wraiths
and specters

coming toward 
the altar now
on crutches

walkers
in wheel chairs
celebrating  

the last Easter 
some of them 
will know 

as they await  
a resurrection
of their own.

 
Donal Mahoney...

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It's  rough 
          and tumble,
life's frenetic 
          race,
we stumble 
          and struggle
to outrun 
          a whirlwind,
leaving moments
          as specters
of the past,
          grasping
at shadows
          and chasing 
fading dreams
          upriver
in time's 
          relentless 
stream.
...

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 Skeletal fingers of the past
reach to grab my psyche;
childhood specters enmeshed
in the shadows that
probe my inner child’s
nightmares.

Strains of melancholy
impress upon the page,
a lost youth.

Time’s acrimonious
stampede has
trampled beloved memories,
I thought I’d locked away
in my mind-attic.


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Specters of the night,
Come in the shadows to creep
Across my walls, hovering
In empty black air;
How they terrorize my nights;
Expanding, contracting spooks…
Shape shifting ghouls who,
Contort as if they appear,
In wavy fun house mirrors.
I must put a stop,
To their vile and twisted dance;
I must avoid watching news!
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From a gape arose, a rose divine
The waves whipped the beach sands bare 
Bones bleached and unhinged 		
Combine-
The flesh and shell, the fish and spine
Electrons changing orbitals
four tons absorbed
specters educe an infinite line 
A gape arose, a rose divine
And with one ray of light did grow 
A quantum with each fraction of time
From a gape arose, a rose divine...

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Rusted iron crosses 
Bled by ocean spray
Fascism’s fury rages
Churning ruptured remains
Haunted by steel specters
Drenched in frigid light
Waves of ruddy soldiers
Toppling tyranny’s tide
Machine gun masses
Deafening and fortified
Ricocheted cries crawling
Over fleshy speckled mines
Limbs of solidarity 
Buried on foreign shores
Blood brothers of freedom
Veterans of world wars...

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We search for the one moment of life
A prelude to joy…….

Calm sea
And    rower
In an immensity of silence
Dipping steadily

………………………………………
EXPECTATIONS

I cut me out a perfect babe
Of tissue    very thin
And    then    before a cry was heard
Released it to the wind

………………………………………..

THE OLD CHEST

Up lid!
And a hundred musty specters cry out
With memories for one only...

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A Fictitious Dream
Miracle Man
2/27/2022

Nights were littered with specters in dreams,
I saw their faces and heard their screams.
From all around I saw flames lapping,
should I get up, or continue cat-napping.

The sky was made up of crimson dyes,
I couldn’t escape when I closed my eyes.
Mind molded images into an unknown shape, 
the alarm clock brought to me my escape.
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There are many guys online 
Each of them comes for purpose 
Either simply for having fun
Or seriously for living curious

Someone as me are just viewers 
Wandering online for kill-time 
Either for sunrise or sunset to come 
We are standing-by as specters 
 

Looking nothing for particular 
We are living in a special status 
Having rattling beliefs and ideas 
And appealing for world being safer...

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Pale specters flit across the walls 
Afraid, I shiver as they leer
Moonlight dances down the halls
This time I might just disappear 

My ghosts move to the rhythm 
Of unheard music 
Sometimes I begin to sway with them
In this blank place I’ve become a ruin

They lock me in my padded room
Where I hug myself and cry in fear 
And in the corners the shadows loom
There is no recovery to be found here...

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