Halloween War Poems

This land of entitlement 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping 
clutching 
scraping this infernal sky!

Arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunted like...

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Pallbearers filled the bus
 
Off to funerals in an angry rush
 
It’s the wicked; they say who have no peace

 That’s why the Pallbearers get...

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Roads covered by dark night,
Thou there is plenty of orange light.

Samhain has arrived,
Remplir your bags to strived.

Headstone on the left,
Don’t worry, toffees won’t be theft.

Trick...

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SUCKERS WERE NEEDED 
TO KEEP THE GAME ALIVE.

HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS
OF INNOCENT DIED.

THOSE IN CHARGE 
CONTINUED TO LIE.

THOSE WHO SUFFERED
BROKE DOWN AND CRIED.

A MAN MADE VIRUS
THAT...

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West Saint John has many ghosts,
As many ghosts as people.
They move in mist where shadows twist,
And scrutinize church steeples.

Martello Tower proudly sits
Upon the Carleton Heights.
A...

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Filch sweet treasure
Filch my cache
Cache in gut now
cache your hide
Hide dear brother
hide your skull 
skull so empty
skull obtuse 
obtuse to pain
Obtuse maneuver
Maneuver wisely
maneuver quickly
Quickly dodge
Quickly...

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At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch

That night, 
at Tintagel, 
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery, 
and the unholy thundering of the...

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Deep in the earth, a crypt of rock
slumber guarded by casket locked
Lips grope silence ‘ever more
 rasping thought, remembers whispered lore
Outstretched palms the roots do...

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Looming Doom
Horrendous Horror
Coming for me
Chasing after me
I take one step 
It takes eight
I cannot out run it
I must fight
Fight this suffocating fear
With an Iron Will
I...

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Its your Halloween rave, having your mascaraed
With all your best friends from back in the day
Liz Lauren and Blake and while they're dressed like skanks
I'm...

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On this Halloween night
A stranger came to my home
My parents invited him in
From his cold nightly roam
 
I hear them talking
As he comes every year
My...

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