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Spookily Poems - Poems about Spookily

PAINTBRUSH

...PAINTBRUSH 

Fingertips the bristles of a 
pagan paintbrush 
painting a Tree of Life
on pacified cheekbones 
instead of in liver
from whence it sprung
now it burns to feed
HeartSpace with wi...

Categories: spookily, allegory, art, body, color,
Form: Alliteration

Poetry, Profound

...Spookily  Bookily
Dramatic apogee
Edgar A. Poe's verses
Death from curses

Quite artistically
characteristically
His poems were renowned
to be profound 

Gloomily  Doomily
So methodically
...

Categories: spookily, poetry,
Form: Double Dactyl

Home Thoughts

...I've walked the floors six times before,
and may yet walk them a few times more.
The pencil marks on the door frame here,
show the growth of my kids year on year.
Ghostly echoes reverberate now,
...

Categories: spookily, family, home, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Haunting Nights

...Streets awash with mewling cats
and surly swashbuckling pirates.
Somber skies with swirling bats,
and ghastly goblins chasing rats.

Wicked witches’ evil glare,
grisly ghouls' ghostly stare,
t...

Categories: spookily, autumn, candy, celebration, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Basest Traitorous Titan

...I fought one piggish Titan and I won
As if that devious Leech existed not; 
Sealing the very firy nose of his gun
With ball-like rags to sap every shot.

A long-lionized mogul of giant name
Sle...

Categories: spookily, allegory, angel, anger, anti
Form: Ballad

Avatar

...New age hurdy gurdy on the fiddle,
lotus pose squatter spookily enthrals,
Sultan nail tip sky diver of the fretboard...

Categories: spookily, appreciation, art, beauty, dedication,
Form: Tanka

Shall Rise

...Night's dull dark imbued with horrid angst
Its coldness biting the clenched skin
Seas and oceans as silent as a feather floating in the wind
Trees sway grotesquely; impenetrable ghosts 
Wind whis...

Categories: spookily, hope, night,
Form: Free verse

Two Days After

...Two Days Later

Silent Sunday beckons
No traffic noises railing. 
Only silence speaking 
Of the need for human exhaling.

Stoves are spookily still,
Leftovers quietly cold for lunch,
Far awa...

Categories: spookily, recovery from, solitude, thanksgiving,
Form: Light Verse

The Tale of the Wobbly Bog

...On the subject of an unwanted water feature...

Water, water, everywhere
In rushing rivers down the wall
As loud as grand Niagara’s Fall
In to the Wobbly Bog
Pouring, pouring, endlessly
Insist...

Categories: spookily, angst, community, humor, nursery
Form: Verse

Ghost Hunt

...Castle grounds at midnight
Spookily lit by moonlight

Black clouds were lowering
Ghost Hunters together hoping
Their collective thoughts emoting
Came greenish haze glowing
Tinged by ectoplasm ...

Categories: spookily, gothic, night,
Form: Rhyme

The Gift

...My family had always told me
About ‘our gift’ since I was a small girl
That allowed us to feel the spiritual,
And see things not of this world

I ignored them until, at the age of sixteen
I’d g...

Categories: spookily, mystery
Form: Quatrain