Halloween Poetry Contest

Annie Avery

2010-10-29T16:15:00.000-07:00

MINE FOREVER

Dressed in white skin and
Blood stained lips

The profound click of his heels
Circle me
He whispers
"A beautiful death will come upon thee."

My ghost
Slips into his soul

Bury Dubya BushBama

2010-10-29T16:10:00.001-07:00

PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FOOL

Arrogance of power
Corrupts absolutely.
Monsters behind masks
Not equal to the tasks.
Welfare for rich,
Welfare for poor,
Can we afford it
Any more?
Scary monsters chase away
Election Day....

Patrick Thomas Jeffries

2010-10-27T20:18:00.000-07:00

TRICK OR TREAT?

Breezing breathing being
Ravenous revenge
Scarecrow terror timid taken
Torturous end
Vicious vacuity pumping pouring streams
Torrid tempestuous seas
Horrific trick sweet treat
Rising past psychic
Defeating deceit
Relishing Victorious Beat

Dr. A. C. Ula

2010-10-26T23:38:00.001-07:00

LOVE VAMPYRE

Twilight disentombment
Midnight rendezvous
Bedchamber violation
Bloodlusting domination.
One sanguinary kiss
Enslaves to wife,
Your living death
Wins me eternal life.
Engorged with blood I rise
Within you pulses my prize....

Linda Amundson

2010-10-25T18:32:00.001-07:00

THE HORROR!

Creepiness clings
perverts her smile
causes goose bumps
and glandular lumps
I will not shriek
when I hear her name
vilest ever there was
maggots cringe
whenever Debbie
comes to town

Dr. Seymour Butz

2010-10-24T21:28:00.000-07:00

THE COLONOSCOPY

Proctology is fun!
IV needle in your arm,
I won't do you any harm....
Technological Incubus.
Inside, upside, transverse, down.
Rectum, colon,
Look around.
Biopsy polyps, cauterize,
Unconscious patient
Traumatize...bill!

Eileen Zhao

2010-10-24T21:12:00.000-07:00

THE BABY MONSTER

Doctor Destructo
Making noise
Playfully destroys
An army of toys.
Spilling some milk
He wipes out a town
Without a frown.
The baby monster
Leaves his diaper behind
Makes his getaway.

Nathan Zhao

2010-10-24T21:11:00.000-07:00

VAMPIRES BORED ON HALLOWEEN

Vampires bored on Halloween
Sick of sucking blood
Decided to be mean.
Stole kid’s candy
Took over houses
Threw people out.
Searching targets
Enjoying fun
Smirking scary faces
Haunting my dreams.

Eleanor Higgins

2010-10-24T14:49:00.001-07:00

SERIAL KILLER

wrinkled thumbs
wrap an ivory throat
chest rising she flails
he loosens his grip
she heaves coughs
allowed another breath
she leaps
raises a gun
chooses death,
but now . . . or later?

Radomir Vojtech Luza

2010-10-24T05:42:00.001-07:00

DOOMED DARWIN DREADLOCK DRACULA LOVE

black ebony eyes
luging an entrail
female falcon clawing
skin scab dark
beauty bares beast
elvira has nothing
on this devil doll
i kinda love
the mad minx
married muse mrs.

Richard Gozzinia

2010-10-22T15:47:00.000-07:00

ZOMBIE VAMPIRE WEREWOLF MONSTER GUVMINT

Blood-sucking parasitic Poli-Ticks
Kleptoplutocratic fascist statistmatic
BushBamaTon RepubliCratic
Pied Piper’s zombie charismatic
Tricky treatment.
Bend over, take it, pay the tax
They’ll take everything.
Big Brother’s coming.
Guvmint sucks
Your bucks.

Carl Harmon

2010-10-21T18:07:00.001-07:00

DEPRESSION (NOT SO GREAT)

Quantitative easing
Abyss creating troubles
Voodoo economics
Witch’s brewing bubbles
Currencies collapsing
Financial Armageddon
Pry out gold
Buy bread or be dead
Who’s afraid of the big bad world
We made?

Wanda VanHoy Smith

2010-10-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

REALITY HORROR SHOW

Alice Cooper's Theater of Death
Rocky Horror Show.
Neither as terrible
as the funeral
of Peter Lorre.
Vincent Price
reads reality eulogy
to hovering spirits.
Bela Lugosi creeps
Boris Karloff weeps.

Janine Trudell

2010-10-20T15:56:00.001-07:00

Forever Halloween:

Doorbell chimes, hoodlums rhyme
“trick'r treat” voices raspy.

Eyes glow red, breath of death
flash of black sharp fangs connect.

Hot blood trickles down my neck
ageless souls chase immortal echoes.

Tim Tipton

2010-10-06T20:45:00.001-07:00

AFTER ALL THE CANDY’S BEEN PASSED OUT

Nicole pulls
the sheets
over her head
and logs on to You Tube’s
ZOMBIE-THON!

“Who needs a man,”
she tells the cat.
“I’ve got the undead
to suck my brains out!”

Announcing the 2010 Halloween Poetry Contest...

2010-10-06T16:34:00.000-07:00

...that's write! This is the "by-popular-demand" RETURN OF THE HALLOWEEN POETRY CONTEST...now that's scary!! Rules to enter are below right. Poems from last year's contest are posted below. And, as entries come in for the 2010 HPC, they will be placed above this message...SPOOKY!!! Vote for your favorite entry to win by commenting.

Richard Gozzinia

2009-10-11T00:10:00.002-07:00

LOVE MONSTER

Amber eyes glowing lustful
Prosthetic organ stitched on
Transplanted prairie oysters swollen
Synthetic testosterone.
Electrical shock stimulates
Throbbing love muscle.
Frankenstein's bride
Prostrate on slab.
Maniacal reanimated creature
Rises to occasion.

Charles Harmon

2009-10-11T00:10:00.001-07:00

MONSTERS OF ENERGY (Tricked Out Treats)

Headlights blazing yellow
Gulping oxygen, puking pollution
Tricked out pimpmobile ride--
Violence Escalades.
Hell, Hell,
The gang's all here.
Drunk, stoned
Driveby Halloween partiers.
"Damn! I just hit
My little brother!"

Nathan Zhao

2009-10-11T00:09:00.001-07:00

MONSTERS BORED ON HALLOWEEN

Monsters bored on Halloween
Big ones
Small ones
And every size in between.
They don't want candy
No chocolate
No caramel
No sweets.
What they want is bloody...
THEY WANT MEAT!

Eileen Zhao

2009-10-11T00:08:00.000-07:00

THE WITCH IS GREEN

It's Halloween
The witch is green
Scariest thing
I've ever seen
Because she ate
Too many beans
On Halloween
So she turned green
She disappeared
And was found in my dream.

Jessica Joy Reveles

2009-10-11T00:03:00.000-07:00

HEAVY FRUIT

our pumpkin
deteriorates:

tendrils turn brown, large lobed
leaves twist, fall away

we wound its weathered skin;
our cantaloupe-colored gourd –
thick rind, edible flesh, many seeds –
lies in a stinking heap.

Karen Greenbaum-Maya

2009-10-10T21:28:00.001-07:00

UNTITLED

Harsh air
brings my breath up short.
Candle-roasted pumpkins
or canyon’s burning bushes?
Child-spirits prowling,
or choking, fleeing?
One gasp:
then I know
whose soft dark breath
is near.

Dan Kasten

2009-10-10T07:00:00.000-07:00

THE EXCHANGER OF SOULS

Deep inside my storefront cemetery
you scribble your last

will upon my walls

I then grab your most prized possession…
pocketing it

knowing that your soul
won't need it much longer.

Peggy Woodruff

2009-10-09T16:09:00.001-07:00

UNTITLED

Yahoo-yuk-yoggy
Little insecure
bored Junior
tugged/moved/pulled
mouth from pumpkin
made it frown, not smile.
"Whyja do that? Little Sweet son!"
"Cause care. Nutton else t'do."
"You're Cutest thing seen
for Halloween."

Eleanor Higgins

2009-10-08T21:44:00.001-07:00

AT MY DOOR

Hannah Montana/Miley Cirus
Buzz Lightyear
Freaky Friday mom/daughter
Snow White, one of the dwarfs
Mickey or a mouse..ka..teer
*Cinderella*
PRINCESS with a diary . . .
Halloween might be s c a r y
Without
W a l t

Eleanor Higgins

2009-10-08T21:43:00.000-07:00

WARM FIRE

doorbell rings cheerfully
I grab pumpkin bowl
add Hershey kisses
near the door,
realize I didn't see hear
anyone coming
I unlatch, squeak door open
Knife glints!
I s-c-r-e-a-m
then . . . d a r k n e s s.

Mina V. Kirby

2009-10-08T18:41:00.001-07:00

ON ALL-HALLOWS EVE

hideous hobgoblins howl
across abominous apparitions
leering lighted lanterns
lie lasciviously lurking
ominous occult ogres
watch weird werewolves
eerie exorcists emerge
eying evil epitaphs
noxious nightmares nag
only on ten thirty-one

Michelle Angelini

2009-10-06T16:23:00.000-07:00

DEATH SCREAM

on a moonless tonight
through ghostly woods
comes fearful
terrifying wraith
a childhood legend
visits those who hear
her eerie scream
no one is safe
when banshee picks
someone for dying

CaLokie

2009-10-04T17:09:00.001-07:00

KING OF TERROR

Fossil shit from asses
of underground Tyranosaurus Rexes
oozes to plate tectonic top
Then fumes
387
parts per million
CO2 up to atmosphere
Need reduction to
350
or may not survive

James Gabriel

2009-10-01T19:14:00.001-07:00

I, ZOMBIE

images of gangrenous hands
fetid teeth,
my gurgling throat shooting blood
ravenous awakened shamble…
I eat…brains!
juicy flesh from once alive, some still… screaming
animals
people
soft children
tender babies

Katerina Canyon

2009-10-01T18:44:00.001-07:00

UNTITLED

I was a black cat prancing
along splintered sidewalks

where masquerade houses pressed
against a fireworks sky.

I missed my costume's irony
as I dashed across streets

before fast moving cars.

Bruce Niedt

2009-09-29T08:26:00.000-07:00

NICE MASK (a 10-line limerick)

"A Halloween full moon
is neat,"
thought the werewolf,
"I'll go trick-or-treat!
They'll think
it's a mask,
so they won't
even ask--
I'll come home
with a bag full of meat!"

Luis Campos

2009-09-26T21:16:00.001-07:00

HELP!

I'm my own prisoner
inside a
mental dungeon,
guarded by a two-headed monster:
Puke and Vomit.

Please! Let me go
before his sister
Nausea and Diarrhea,
returns from Califartnia.

Sample 10-31 poem by moi

2009-09-23T20:24:00.000-07:00

SCARY

I was born into this
world in the middle

of a night. All Hallows
Eve, on the ninth floor

of a now closed hospital.
Delivering doctor chuckled

"Here's your little spook."