Second collection of contest submissions

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2 great poems, and then there’s mine (it’s in the middle). 🙂

Writer's Treasure Chest

We proudly present the second collection of contest submissions for the
1st Halloween-poem contest.

Picture courtesy of: http://preventioncdnndg.org/eco-quartier/eco-tips-for-halloween/ Picture courtesy of: http://preventioncdnndg.org/eco-quartier/eco-tips-for-halloween/

End Time Constrictor
Riding her broomstick o’er damned gabled slough
Flash lightning, roar thunder shrieks white-eyed pain
Where bats dwell and crows line bare lime bough
Cawing or cleaning beaks in bloody rain.
She seeks one handy with his scythe to spare
None.  Soul mower, Hell’s harvester of sins,
Sod slicer riffing frantic flight: despair
Red gules lit by jack-o-lantern grins.
She waves her gnarled hand as moonrise mocks
Blind children’s laughter punctuating raves
Birth pangs drawn from death’s cool reckoning knocks.
Between marks lies silence of yawning graves.
With soughing sound and broad blade whistling slow
She smiles grim greeting. He swings.  It’s time to go.
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(by “FloridaBorne”)

Deep in the Northern Florida woods

away from prying eyes

The spindly pine and sickly oak

hide from the crying skies.

“C’mon inside,” the ghostly moan

and gnarled finger smile

to anyone…

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