Short Spooked Poems

Vanishing mid-chomp,
kicking up a fluff of snow,
spooked somehow away....

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deer season's over 
spooked deer run across roadway 
light covers broken...

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yes, spooked 
by lightning
while
the 
scarecrow starts singing
the titled song, 
“Bring Him Home”...

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Blue-gray dragon smoke clouds and 
Fresh orange flames spooked and
Tickled every edge of 
Terry Town...

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There was a girl named Bridget
who fell in love with a midget.
They got along fine
'cept at loving time
the best he could do was fidget....

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SPOOKED 

i snuffed
     out candlelight -
          suddenly spooky dark.

forgotten sound, resounds, in length
                                                           of chains.

9/7/2017...

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I am a crow
Who circles camps
Of spiritual claims.

Sometimes seeing something shiny,
I light for that moment
Of inclusion.

Then, spooked by certain noise,
I fly back to the safe perch
Of overview....

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Souls filing down Heaven’s hall;
People walk among us all.
One or two in a crowd can, see them;
Others are blind, to their own fellow men
Keep your mortal
Eyes closed at night, in bed;
Dark rooms may reveal the non-dead....

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With spooked nerves' dead of night woe
This horror show
Morns and fogged, quaking on through.
Eves and fogged, back.

A bony figure's stiffness
And lifelessness
Treed, which its leading part plays.
Treed, with star's knack....

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Stiff covid lockdown
Spouse craves cheek to cheek waltzes 
Disco moves grab me

Bump-bump grind chorus
Spooked by variant madness
We walk on egg shells















Senryu revised: January 19, 2022
A Brian Strand Contest (1055)...

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searching for feelings
  in tune with my soul
harmony is nice

  deafening
the music explodes
my body taut, chest
  heaving,
  spooked

sitting down to dinner
  we how-was-your-day it
not much
  yeah, same old

staring into our mugs
  brimming with
    pretend...

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feel as though im morphing
evil i can feel is coursing 
through my veins i feel the pain
i know i sound so insane
but i ain't got no pretty little dane
to help keep me restrained
now im forced in this corner
backed up in this corner
with no corner to turn
like a spooked horse 
i morph...

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Who is knocking on my empty stump
on this cold and dreary night?
I glanced at my friend, but she was snoring away, 
her usual evening sight.

I went to the door with my loaded acorn, 
ready to shoot me some bear.
But believe it or not, no one was around, 
not a soul even there....

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You are spooked, but you are also doing the spooking.
You talk about hearts,
And who can be forgiven.
Or you stand,
Or sit and wonder
On a floating platform believing 
You are creating things,
And maybe you are,
Maybe you are always creating things.
But what is it that you are creating?...

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Her pillow's stained with tears and fears
Her sheets are spooked; they leer and sneer
And plunder sleep with fright severe
Her pillow's stained with tears and fears
The fears attack her every night
The tears reveal her tragic plight
Her pillow's stained with tears and fears
Her sheets are spooked; they leer and sneer...

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the sky is crystal blue
Lake Michigan the same
down the Eagle flew
to catch his game

he dropped his fish dinner 
upon the riverbank
sea gulls flocked near the winner
for any scrap he did not take

as we gort a closer look
he was spooked and flew away
he perched upon the knotty Jackpine 
and watched us play
...

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My wife was a spook ,she lived in a  secret little nook
                 She spooked all the old houses of Thomasville Oak Brook
                               She loved to cook crispy batwings
                                And tied me to her apron strings
                 One night in frenzy of love she ate me up with a fluke...

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Full moon beams
a foreboding light
hanging in a
twilit sky;
shadows of cobalt
soon blackened loom,
as witches stir
their cauldron brews.
A distant howl
in the night;
skeletal fingers
click so light.
The graveyard stirs
in amorphous view.



10-12-2020
Halloween Fright Poetry Contest
Carolyn Devonshire...

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Good eye for butterfly
He got closer
No one knows why
The butterfly got spooked
Flew way up high in the sky
The nature lover began to cry

Good eye for a turtle now
He got down in the weeds, where doggies chow
Looked for turtles but found a snake
Then a brook, finally a lake
Nature lover was satisfied
Followed the lake to a river wide....

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The backyard squirrels are spooked,
there's a hawk around.
A cat creeps up on them
just as slow and quiet as a snail.

The squirrels are no dopes,
they see the hawk and the cat,
they understand that danger
is a kind of fun.

Looking for nuts and squirrelly sex,
are not all there is to life in the wild.

Unfortunately
the cat and the hawk know this as well....

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Fantastical notes of gloom filled the orchestra pit
Who was playing? No one was here. Except Paul.
He felt spooked after searching for the source.
A gremlin band, a ghost trio, a zombie orchestra?

The music was deliberate, harsh, off beat, nonharmonic
The hair on the back of Paul’s neck rose almost an inch
He felt threatened, for he knew he was alone here.
Or was he?...

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I gave she snatched I asked she 
sassed
I shared she stole I begged she 
snarled
I smiled she spit I came she split
My turn she skipped I caught but 
she sliped
I agreed she'd shift I saved she 
spent
I stared she snubed I lead she 
shoved
I touched she spooked I rose she 
stooped
I liked she sulked I'd hide she 
snooped
I errored she saw I'm quiet she 
squaked...

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After the organic death
of soaked breast,
I put up tiny islands of eyes
in spooked water.

The dead were coming back
to live on the terrace
amidst the roses
of roof-garden.

I talk to flowers to end
the war. The light was waiting
behind the hills and
birds were ready to sail.

Were you afraid of mother
earth or roaring sky ?
The corpses are standing in row
to receive the mighty wrath.   


Satish Verma...

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Remember all those rebel poets
    and their bizarre ways
  How they spooked their stodgy elders
    with contra-poetic displays

  Dispensing with meter and flow, accent and rhyme
    penning metaphor-less, image-free lines
  Treating verse as a curse and a sonnet much worse
    vulgarities popping up like landmines..

  Well, it's gotten worse instead of better
    ~ Just read a poem without letters...

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Listen to poem:

Today, I saw a grackle
(fam. Icteridae) -- a common sight --
braving the wind atop a post
among parked (and moving) cars.

Feathers ruffled in the gusty air,
it was not spooked
by movement, engine noise,
or human presence.

It seemed to me to make a show
of avian bravado; but, in truth,
it could not ever know
what mischief might be wrought,
purposely or not, upon such creatures
by other creatures (such as us.)...

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