Waiting Seasons creep up on youyou take the long blearylook out across summerspy that blood red leafand think you know about fallUntil the air bites with a chillat your neck and the clinging leavescircle your anklesThe darkness descendsand the line betweennight and day slithers awayJack’s lanterns appearon stoops their ghoulish smilestarry ’til nighttimeDid you know they … Continue reading Halloween Guest Feature- dancelilli
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Halloween Guest Feature- Bartholomew Barker
Halloween, Age 15 The full moon roselike the Great Pumpkinmy little brotherwent begging as a hobo I bullied candysnuck out to meetsome fellow teenage boysunder that same moon High in the sky lightingour swath of destructionthrough the neighborhooda late autumn tornado I still revel in that glorious sightof toilet papered trees in the moonlight Bartholomew … Continue reading Halloween Guest Feature- Bartholomew Barker
Halloween Guest Feature- Bilocalalia
Seasons change With ghoulish glee we scan the aislesfor scarlet glints of streaming blood,count down the hours with wicked smiles,with chortles await the annual flood. The clocks strike twelve as shelf by shelfeach Jack-o-Lantern becomes an elf,the sweetmeats change from orange to green,and candy canes come on the scene. From coast to coast the stockers … Continue reading Halloween Guest Feature- Bilocalalia
Halloween Guest Feature- s.s
Halloween ~ a haibun Like winter mist that rises, blurring the eye just as much as reality, letting shadows make shapes and stories in your minds, disquiet unsettling the illusion of power, senses heightened in fear of the unknown creeping up your spine, so the gateway between life and death breathes sometimes, inhaling wisps of heaven, … Continue reading Halloween Guest Feature- s.s
Halloween Guest Feature- V Healing
KILLER TIME Dark clouds shadowed the realm, as demons crept into a fiery hell. Entering a forbidden crypt door, I’d not seen anything like it before. Havoc, evil, pestilence and plagues, mudslides dripping from the graves. Blood, skeletons, witches and gore, sinister faces swung from the walls. Swaying from cellar, holy men sipped, nuns writhed, … Continue reading Halloween Guest Feature- V Healing
Halloween Guest Feature- Lynn White
All The Devils Were There I used to dress in bakers whiteand take a basket of breadto Halloween parties.I never found many takers.Spiced pumpkin,apple cakesand candywere always more popular.So I had a re-think.Now I take a basket of babies.They can’t get enough of themall of those devils out there,even those who come as angelsgather round … Continue reading Halloween Guest Feature- Lynn White
Dance of the Gravestones- Michael Erickson
Why am I drawn to such dark lines and paths? Where cold damp soaks into feet quite bare. I’ll catch my death wallowing between these dead leaves, As I look upon these smooth faces of stone. But my hands are tied about with thoughts, They torment my already trouble soul. And so I find myself … Continue reading Dance of the Gravestones- Michael Erickson
Pandora’s Box- Michael Erickson
**Fair warning this is is a Halloween post. It’s definitely not like my other peaceful nature posts.** Grasping hands in the dark, Broken nails scrape across rough metal. Screams abound in this darkest of places, As we howl for our freedom. Seared by sun and slick with sweat, Our bodies writhe in this pitch of … Continue reading Pandora’s Box- Michael Erickson
Witch’s Flight- Michael Erickson
Call upon a forgotten kiss, And walk with slumbering minds. Lilt with the drifting oak leaves, Tosses to and fro upon the road. Autumn has extended its hooks, And I a fool come falling. Catch me upon these drifting lands, Where I may burry my madness. For I am gone upon the burning world, Marked … Continue reading Witch’s Flight- Michael Erickson
Rising Death- Michael Erickson
I will not be forgotten, As those of drifting dust. Bones resting within their crypts, Beneath layers of peace unending. This will not be how I go, Words to be forgotten upon new fallen snow. I call upon my darkest parts, And touch these names of stone. In deepest graves so carefully laid, With Fire … Continue reading Rising Death- Michael Erickson