Halloween Teen Poems

I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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It’s Sunday morning, my watch shows that it’s 33° and 5:58 am. Surprisingly, half of us are up and motile. My excuse is that I’m...

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We’re on Fall break this week and Peter’s favorite aunt - Lita - is visiting. Lita’s a tall, slim woman (eek! A guess), in her...

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***A Parenting Tale***

He must’ve been
Just barely fourteen, but still off as
A ninja filling a pillowcase
   with chocolate on Halloween.
Although through all other days...

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Sometimes I’ll rouse, in darkest night, to a twilit form, bending over me, so closely we’re sharing the same still air. I never startle, I...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of...

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I remember the day Frankenstein was made,                  ...

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Soft light plays on
my shameless, lipstick rouged
lips - it's a party.

I hear OverDoz
advocating a “last kiss”
somewhere in the night.

Some faces always 
find a favorable light
-...

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I see them in reflections - the orange juice glass at breakfast or my iPhone where they can pop, like notifications - I keep my...

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Beside midnight's minting bare branches
   Dead fingered messages on bedroom pane scratches 
          ...

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As a child we think of masks and Halloween,                ...

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Scads of decades ago...

Metaphorical mama's yoyo
came undone, unleashing woe
doggone wizard of oz sought in toto
afore final picture show
would play staging pro
sic cuter determining
irrevocable fate oh...

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Zits!

Pus problems ... oozing wipe love,
has got them innocent bite fangs showing
That baby drac queen moon face turning
into a teenage mutant turtledove

Cold cream cyber hits

Another...

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She excitedly entered the house;
dry leaves and grass were fiddling
against each other in the night wind,
from behind her.

As she walked in the house,
the wooden floor...

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There was a teen ghoul named McDimple
Who thought scaring kids would be simple
He'd moan and he'd groan
Just like he was shown
But the children just stared...

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