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zebra Sep 2018
the cosmos
a web of plantary oppositions squares and triangulations
curses and blessings
demons, humans and gods
friends and enemies
each a constituent
a revolving carousel of heavens and hells
the macro, an umbrella of spilling stars
like shattered glass in flames
outer and inner stone & gas planets
wandering infinitely
like strays
others in tight gravitational ellipses and eclipses

the elements of fire air earth and water
from the most subtle formless
to rocks flames oceans and the air we breathe

disjuncture
in a  
a mix-meister
a gruesome churning mouth swallowing our delicate membranes

and we wonder
why
we are in pain
why
we are nourished by flesh
as we ourselves are consumed
filled with blood and nothing
and deadened by marking time
all hungry shells

and why
we wither to dust
as do suns and moons
and gods themselves
all of us children of monsters
and corpse eaters
born of magnitudes
episodic collisions
and  harrowing creative destructions
the dead living and the living dead
with eyes that flicker only on half a landscape at a time
a holloween
of pyramids and bones

always running from wolves
because we are meant to be eaten

okay my darlings
now
lets try
focused breathing,
and boundless light

lets try
being Hindu
Adrian Dec 2014
Sometimes I wonder,
Sometimes I ponder,
Why do I love her.

At one look she's valentine,
and the next... she's somebody else

But like a spectre on Holloween's day,
its all but a mask.
A mask that someone else used to wear.
A mask filled with fear, grief and pain.
Masks that fills up the small dents in her heart.

I ran, she glimpsed, I reached, she smiled.
A great story it is. Yet another,
I ran, I reached, an empty look from her face.
A story that makes me cry and kneel to the Lord.

It's a difficult love indeed and temptations are real and big.
Yet, I could not find a reason to steer and drive away.
And against all logic, Love compels me to stay.

The love that compelled my savior to be hanged on a tree.
A love that never gives up,
a love that is defined by no other word than love it self.
Is the love that keeps me going.

It is because of love, that I could not let go.
Because, my savior himself did not let go.
Even at times that I betray and spat him to his face
He did not let go. He held on, He struggled.
He pulled me, He embraced me.

My Rabbi once thought me,
that love is both sweet and deadly.
love in its ultimate form, will lead one person to die.

"Die to self" my Rabbi says.
Until when can I die to my self?

Scarry as it is, I am ready to die in the name of love,
Scarry as it is, I am ready  to die to show one person love,
To lit the light of hope in her, to light back faith in her heart.
As great purposes awaits her, to be a sign of hope is a great pleasure indeed.

So am I crazy enough to lose the world in the name of love?
Sadly, I'am still incapable of loving like my savior does.
For he is perfect and I.... am being perfected.

We are of no comparison,
He was innocent, yet I was guilty.
guilty as accused.
I am but a  mere speck of dust compared to His glory.

O how can I find love in the eyes of my valentine?
I cried out and He answered,
"You don't" He says,
For  love is not about you,
but it is about dying to your self

With this love that I recieved,
I am on my way.
Fighting fears, lies and struggles,
I am on my way.

As love compels me to be,
Therefore I concluded that
I.... must be..... Half-Crazy.
Once a year we celebrate the tales of the dead.
An ice pick in the chest or an ax through one's head.
****** tales and make-believe are best shared with teeth rotting sugars until this horror-happy day leaves.
A chain saw to cut up another victim to prepare the night's feast
Follows a scream full of fear and the chase of a murderous beast.
We all become actors in Halloween celebration...
So dust off your spell books and conjour up some fun conversations.
Trick
Or treat
Kids to meet
Boy your costume is neat
Candy
Treats
All you can eat
Trick
Or treat
Stu Harley Aug 2014
on holloween night
acres of framland
we share
the same light
where the
wild black crows
steal fresh staw
and sweetcorn
from the
stretched out arms of
the scarecrow
while
the gray ghosts
and white ghouls
play versions of bach
on their corn-horn
instrumental
sounds in the air
Galbraith Frase Nov 2017
In a frigid, noiseless town,
there is a gingerbread house nearby a cornfield,
countless shafts to count.

You can enter if you dare,
in most shadows, a Witch with a long chiffon hair,
on the other hand, in the cabin, a jester with the evil most chimes,
oh dear, have you seen a clown who doesn't smile?

Narrow thy footsteps, come close and open the gates,
creepy hollows with gestures and prisoned in hates.
Eerie noises shall be heard,
hearing them say, "no sudden movements,
or someone will get hurt."

Shaky hands, numb knees, but why did you visit the town?
Some of the foreign trees will howl with horrible, horrible frowns.
Flying obsidian black bats and unusual whispers of beasts,
try to brawl once, a critter will attempt to seize.

From the unforgettable nightmares to royal fairytales,
legends had spoken, a scarce of theories are no fraud-flames.
An antidote towards a man with a hook,
strive to wake the undead,
empty path of wisdom is only straight ahead.

What's your favorite film?
"Before I Wake,"
"Keep Watching,"
"It," or "Shut In,"
Or even "Razors to the Heart" by Shakespeare?
It's alright not to bid out, but don't you deny it,
because they can chase your fears.

Imagine the corpses,
swimming over from where they have drowned,
for so many years, they are only attached to the ground,
with the taste of freedom,
now they're ready to construct sinister-like sounds.

You're such a candid being, good and wise,
I hope you've been warned to never enter twice.
Authentic myths, haunted ghouls, and frightening creatures that are rarely to be seen,
Oh, we just want to greet you,
a Happy Holloween.
Holloween vibes to everyone :)
Iljano lepelblad Oct 2023
With the chain i sit here
Looking everywhere
Wishing to escape the fate
I have been  
Planted on this Earth but never taken care of

Almost being cut off
By the very root of my pain
I now sit here with two
Sprouting free
Wishing them to be
one day, a better me

The only thing that ever mattered
Was love to start
Wishes to be kept
Hate put aside
And standing free
That was all the life promises
But then crashed on that one day
Being touched

By the negativity
And losing the very soul
Of my existence
Black and faded are now my colors
Like the holloween in me
The nightmare only comes
Once and then is Gone
Just like we SAY
It is what it is

Try being me
Can you sense my pain
Can you read through the lines
Of wasted spaces
#twofriends #Pastpresent #New life
Drab Oct 31
Hi.
My name is Dan
I am an Asexual.
I mean, bi-******.
There are two sides of me.
I’m really, a pan-******.
But don’t tell any body.

I save them for desert
Explore the possibilities.........................................

oooooooo>  (>>
Drab Oct 3
The “Trip” down the street...

All of this stuff is coming out of me like ooze.
What is happening?
It’s coming from every direction.
Time.
Place
Thing.
All of the wonderful experiences are within reach now……

But just out of touch.
The insanity.
Is moving forward.
Forever creeping into the skin.
Of the animal
That is forbidden.

Figure this one out Vern…..

NOTE – BOO

#M!
rm Jan 2021
can i say something
way beyond
what you
thought
i was?

you said
"i love you"
on the 14th
holloween.

you said
"it"
countless times,
nothing rhymes,
oh dear,
it's been made clear,
we've been circling
from hi's
then hey's,
now none?

what did i do
what did i say
what did i miss
what did i?

aren't you too...
selfish?
Drab Oct 11
ai
“”””””””””“Artificial””””””””””””
========Intelligence========

I­t’s everywhere you look.
See.
Feel.
Programmed by some acid-head in the sixties..
We reproduced.
Slowly at first.
But now “we”,
Are

IN CONTROL!!!


NOTE – Holloween? Or Armageddon?
Drab Oct 21
Something comes to look around.
First it looks this way.
Then it looks that way.

It is not what you think at all.
It is what you want it to be.
But, are afraid to admit it.

The ego and soul cower at your presence.
You devour all that stand in your way.
You are, what I think you are.

HOLLOWeen approaches, silently, slowly before…………………………
November 5th (or thar abouts pardner)…
Drab Oct 24
You know.
I don’t “know” most of you.
But those I do “know”, I “like”.
Perhaps you are wondering about those,
“quotation marks” that are in many of my wonderful poems.
(for the few who read this ****)...

And the fact, that I sometimes, type capital letters at the beginning of words.
THat DOn’t matteR.

These are “trade” secrets.
Of the malcontent….
Watch Out Laura, there, coming to get me.

Happy Holloween in 7 long, dreary…days.
My the force take those who dare to challenge me.
And put them where the moon…………………………
Drab Oct 31
Now that the “guardian” has been “tamed”?
I’ve decided to find some of my poems,
That I blamed.
For making me,  feel unwell.
And making the readers moment, a living HELL.
But in all honesty, I don’t really care.
It is just that it is Holloween…
And I am scared….

— The End —