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clinging desperately
a lone leaf
on an autumn branch,
enduring the cold winds that blow--
the breath of winter,
the darkened skies,
the bare branches of skeleton trees.
one more push and it will fall,
swoop down in all poetic glory,
to paraphrase life's forgotten misfit ideals--
no matter the tenacity of the leaf,
how strong its stem holds,
falling is fate,
and rotting is
inevitable.
slowly slowly slowly dying
Evan Hayes Nov 2014
In the graveyard
I've come to hear your voice
and I'm all alone again
I've brought my toys

You're going to burn
I'm making sure
You're going to love
What I've got in store

It's 6 am
and I'm coming for you
it's 6 am
You're way past due

Choke again
You're not my friend
Choke again
Let's play pretend

I'll be the demon
and you'll be me
Lets swap sides
It's all I need

I'm not like you
but i can fool
My board
Torment the ghoul

I'm glad you're gone
Burning with fun
I've got my gun
I hope you can run
A bit darker than most of my others
Mangled bodies from the grave
Chase you with avenge
Their destroyed faces rave
As they come for gruesome revenge

The cackling grows louder
As the close up on you
Wanting you to cower
As their chase you through

The spell of death in in the air
Crumpled candy under feet
Dread and fear everywhere
Turning people white as a sheet

The graveyard horrors stomping feet
What happens next is unforeseen
The gouls and goblins yell trick or treat
On this perfect night of halloween
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Hope you like my special Halloween poem just for today! If you do please like or repost and if u don't feel free to still like or repost.

Hope everyone had a great halloween and no matter how old u are you are never to old for dressing up in an awsome costume and eating some delicious candy even if u just bought it at a store!
mark john junor Oct 2014
fragile heart she lay ruptured in my lounge chair
grey faced i mumble a few parting words over her
before i lay out the finest bone china
all the makings of tea and biscuits
all the fixings of ******
with the sounds of the snapping of necks
sharp wet sound fresh on the air
she was here to mourn her lover-boy
gone astray
i was here to see the deed done

i was the grey faced hangman
come to get his pennys
in my song you can hear the rope snap
in my heart you can feel the fall from the gallows
and my hangman's noose swinging in breeze
has its own peculiar creaking sound that sounds
like love to me
i was the grey faced hangman
that knows no sympathy
come now you wicked ones
sing my song with me

grey faced i lead the procession
up the graveyard road
the overgrown and thick summer feel to it
claws at the senses
but i keep walking stiffly
with the sound
of snapping necks ringing in my ears
its my song

he had cried like a child as they carried him to the gallows
he had begged and wailed
but my hangman's noose had claimed him
cold comfort awaits
to the tomb they cried out with joy
to the tomb with the scoundrel
while she lay weeping her lost lover-boy
and while grey faced i cleansed the world
of scoundrels like him
while grey faced i silently mourned
for i had run out of rope
(a little halloween for you)
Clindballe Oct 2014
In a graveyard of memories I find myself digging.
Searching for something.
For us.
Seeing your skeleton holding mine hurts.
A teardrop lands on our skeletons and they collapse.
That is why I burried us.
I got tired of cleaning up the mess.
*let us stay 6 feet under the ground
Written: October 1. - 2014
20something Jul 2014
If you understand that beneath my skin,
there is more then blood running through my veins;
scars have tattooed every inch of  me
and now I barely have room left to breathe.
My rhythm is a little off beat,
and like leaves in autumn,
my branches sometimes lose their leaves to the return of colder weather.
In the graveyard behind my eyes,
there lies the memories I've begged my mind to forget.
As long as you know that i can't stand to be looked at for too long;
gasoline to the burning flame of stares
that I can feel from behind the safe haven of my hair,
and sometimes when you touch me I may flinch,
but the tenderness blooming from your fingertips
is a serendipity that my senses are not accustomed to.
Give me time.
And in return I'll give you my sleepless nights.
Hopefully,
you'll still want me in the morning.
donovan Jul 2014
the hardest lesson i ever learned
was never to dig a shallow grave.

i learned as a boy
young and teary eyed
scrapes on both knees
knee deep in mud,
too weak to lift the shovel.

i dropped your body in
left your corpse
in a shallow pit.

at a tender age
it was all i could do.

i didn't prepare for the flood
didn't see it coming
so when the rains hit
your body turned lazarus.

old haunts and dreams better off dead
drug their familiar names in my skin
and i aged decades in heartbeats.

the hardest lesson i learned
was that corpses stay dead
no matter how many prayers you send.

you are a corpse
of a forgotten promise
reeking of obsolescence.

don't you dare forget

that i buried you
once
twice
three times

that you still rose to
haunt me in the quiet hours
of a morning too heavy with dew to begin
of a sun too weary to start again
of a moon too proud to dip
below my horizons

that i walked away
left my scar
of an unrequited kiss
upon the skin of the earth.

the hardest lesson i ever learned
was how deep to dig a grave
for a memory turned corpse.
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