Slate skies
Stinging rain
No rainbows today.
Wicked laughter
from darkened houses
terrifies.
Defenestrated neighbors
Swing from ragged ropes
Tattered clothing
Exposes inhuman things
Soulless creatures
Skulk and lurk
patiently waiting
for beating hearts
Broken gravestones
hide terrified children
clutching iPads.
Fading light in a dark, dark
world
Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014 at 11:53 AM UTC
Slate skies
Stinging rain
No rainbows today.
Wicked laughter
from darkened houses
terrifies.
Defenestrated neighbors
Swing from ragged ropes
Tattered clothing
Exposes inhuman things
Soulless creatures
Skulk and lurk
patiently waiting
for beating hearts
Broken gravestones
hide terrified children
clutching iPads.
Fading light in a dark, dark
world
The product of a poetry challenge laid down by 6th grade English students. They gave me the words Thursday, rainbow, donkey, defenestrate, and iPad and I was challenged to write a creepy poem incorporating those words.
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