Spooked Mr Johnson
Old Mr. Johnson, with broom in one hand,
Told his sweet granddaughter, “Sleep, not grandstand!”
Her room was empty, the air grew cold—
Only the Ouija sat silent and bold.
He muttered and shivered, “No time to wait,”
Grabbed his truck keys and zipped past the gate.
The cemetery whispered secrets
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Categories:
spooked, cool, crazy, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
spooked by a Hoot
As a child at night, tucked up into bed
counting sheep would never work for me
counting only up to three
then drifting from my head
An imagination Big enough
self-sabotaging dread
a shadowed figurine
with glowing eyes instead
whistling gusts of wind
the creepy creaking shed
What if something hungry lurked outside
looking to be fed
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Categories:
spooked, halloween, imagination, scary, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Leticia Gets Spooked
We all knew how spooked our cousin Leticia gets.
We knew when she saw the skull she would pitch fits.
Should we warn her? Asked my Aunt Little Bits.
No way! We kids yelled. That would be the pits!
The skull was sitting about sixteen feet away.
I was afraid Leticia might not see it today.
I motioned past her, in
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Categories:
spooked, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Getting Spooked
The sun set slowly this eve
As the moon seemed to tip toe
Upon the distant horizon
As the handoff of day to night ensued
The sounds of laughing children
Filled the air on this Halloween
A chill fell upon the trick-or-treaters
With hopes costumes would protect
From the oncoming cold night
Little protection, though
Against the hunting and haunting spirits
That wish to walk the
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Categories:
spooked, candy, children, halloween,
Form: Free verse
I Once Got Spooked
i once got spooked
on Spooky Hollow road
smack dab
in middle of headless horseman country
almost lost my head
it was very dark
lanterns belong to city dwellers
my station wagon spun crazy eights
as i imagined, the dawn of the dead,
a recently watched horror fest
any moment he’d materialize
head hanging off shoulder
green as pea soup
or Dracula, leaning on a cane
white teeth hanging
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Categories:
spooked, dark, humor, lost,
Form: Light Verse
Well and Truly Spooked
We were four tough teens and one day at school we were dared
To spend a night in Hangman's Woods to prove we weren't scared,
We'd set up camp for the night then heard loud wailing and a moan
Sheer blind terror overcame us when we realised we weren't alone,
We ran as fast as our legs could carry
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Categories:
spooked, humor, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Spooked
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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Categories:
spooked, dark, gothic, halloween, moon,
Form: Free verse
Spooked
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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Categories:
spooked, anxiety, relationship,
Form: Limerick
Spooked
"Another 150 Illinoisans have lost their lives in the last 24 hours
May each of their memories be for a blessing
2,240 residents have tested positive for the virus
Another 365 new hospitalizations were recorded
730 people are on ventilators...
"These are real people, who have and had
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Categories:
spooked, bullying, fear, health, how
Form: Free verse
Spooked
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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Categories:
spooked, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Spooked
SPOOKED
i snuffed
out candlelight -
suddenly spooky dark.
forgotten sound, resounds, in length
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Categories:
spooked, dark,
Form: Verse
Spooked
I follow you around everywhere you goI speak to you when the wind blowsYou can hear something but you cannot hear meI listen to you complaining all the time about meI come up to you and blow into your earAnd all you do is flap your hands around your ears in fearYou run from me
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Categories:
spooked, anxiety, psychological, visionary,
Form: Epic
Spooked
Spooked
Driving along on my scooter seeing the familiar
landscape there was a time disturbance
the landscape was the same but the trees small
and there were fewer ploughed fields.
mystical shadows and a murmur of voices sounded
as an echo and I felt spooked.
I stopped and waited perhaps I had a funny turn
slowly the warp panned
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Categories:
spooked, absence, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Spooked
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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Categories:
spooked, poems, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Acrostic
Spooked By Lightning
yes, spooked
by lightning
while
the
scarecrow starts singing
the titled song,
“Bring Him Home”
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Categories:
spooked, imagination,
Form: Free verse
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