Halloween Hoedown

Satanic styles soar over the setting sun

Demon dances devour the dark

Chaney's Chopping Charleston

Carradine's Cannibal Can-Can

Karloff's Killer Kabuki

Lugosi's Lacerating Lambada

Cushing's Cutting Cha-Cha-Cha

Rathbone's Rotting Rumba

Price's Petrifying Polka

Lee's Lament Locking

Which will you allow

to take possession

of your soul

as you flow like blood

through the full moon's light

October 31, 2020

Day 31 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Lon Chaney Sr/Lon Chaney Jr

John Carradine

Boris Karloff

Bela Lugosi

Peter Cushing

Basil Rathbone

Vincent Price

Christopher Lee

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Survival Adaptability

 

A new password needed

just to patter with a pal

Lost in a URL forest

you've been through before

because new trees

sprung up with a refresh

The web tangles

the net tightens

and access to the world begins to disappear

with a bit taken here

and a byte taken there

If survival depends

on adapting well to change

my time is crashing

for my hardware

seems to grow too old

for the software

of an always moving hard drive

as my sites grow darker

October 30, 2020

Day 30 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Soon

 

It'll blow over

with a calming pulse

and neither

the girl

nor him

will be able

to point a finger

at what

brought their blood

to a burn

in the first place

October 29, 2020

Day 29 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: blow, finger, girl, him, their.

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All The Cliches

 

It's abstract at first

like a nipple on death

leaking time

No one wants to investigate

no one even wants to approach

But there will

come a time

for every girl

and every boy

when those descriptives

no longer apply

And you know

all the memes

all the cliches

are coming true

written across your skin

October 28, 2020

Day 28 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: abstract, approach, come, girl, boy, investigate, nipple, you.

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An Obsession Of Wax

 

It's ferocious

this lust

If I had an aura

it would burn

like a jetpack on fire

And I would wrap

one delicious

porcelain thigh

after another

around me

and fly

into the sun

October 27, 2020

Day 27 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: aura, delicious, ferocious, jetpack, porcelain, thigh.

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Wish

 

I will compress

and crush

my inner critic

I will attune myself

and lift out

a champion

I will

sing

in this silence

October 26, 2020

Day 26 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: attune, champion, compress, life, silence, sing, wish.

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The Last

 

The storm

carves a hell

in any language

through any wall

In comes

that beast of mine

on a trolley of light

and I

in a gown of marble

believe this

is a dream

the fantasy of a sleeping fuckwad

even as death

rattles in my throat

October 25, 2020

Day 25 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: beast, believe, dream, fuckwad, gown, hell, language, light, marble, storm, trolley walk.

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Holding On To A Lightning Bolt

 

There's a time

a moment

short or long

that's often not recognized

for what it 

is

until it's what

was

When you are

you

and your life is

yours

true and free

Fire burns out

light fades away

the beautiful storm passes

your streak across the sky is over

you're grounded

October 24, 2020

Day 24 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Dark Side Of The Mind

 

The fist that fights

the fist that betrays

The heels that tempt

the heel on the throat

The ring on a finger

ringing someone's neck

Out on the dance floor

dancing on a grave

Chocolate heart

heart of stone

Ruler to all surveyed

servant to all seen

Hot bed

cold grave

It all lives

it all dies

it all haunts each of us

from the dark side

of the mind

October 23, 2020

Day 23 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Nothing But The Night

 Money in my purse

the curse of want

the reality of need

fades

The events of the day

turn into the memories

of recent past

disappearing

The beats of the heart

the throb of the loins

slip away

The sun takes it all down

burns it all

until only

all that you

are

aren't

fear

and love

leaving

You alone

surrounded

by everything

and nothing

but the night

October 22, 2020

Day 22 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Pulling From The Jar

 

The words of

an Original Poet

a spell-casting Pagan

a Zen Goddess

mixed with 

the British Wishes of an Artist

a Little Box Of Sin

some F Words

and X marks

the Erotic

the Horror

the Sci-Fi

the Fantasy

All magnetic

and I get lost in the stars

October 21, 2020

Day 21 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry

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Eating Ink

 

Wrapping watery words in leaves

and filling my face

Trying to gorge

on imagination

Stuffing myself

with stanzas

All the bitter bats, buts, and boys

the sweet sashays, simplicities, and sex

Picking through a salad

of colors and topics

Impaling with my pen

veggies of veritable verbs

and savory meats of nouns

Cooking a plate

full of poetry

October 20, 2020

Day 20 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Pixelating

 Colors dropping

youth

energy

the picture blurs

dreams

ideals

light smears

hopes

goals

life out of focus

October 19, 2020

Day 19 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Everest Et Al

Don't climb a mountain to conquer it

that's hubris

Don't climb a mountain to conquer yourself

that's nonsense

Why climb more than one mountain

Why have sex more than once

Of course there are dangers

diseases, abusive partners, earthquakes, avalanches

We take precautions

We don't stop

We climb a mountain to experience the mountain

We climb mountains to experience the world

and sometimes the cost of that experience

is the world

October 18, 2020

Day 18 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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The Fit

 

Looking for inspiration

looking for prompts

inside

and out

from strangers

from images

from the past

from an imagined future

everyone

and everything

No matter where one pulls the words from

one's always trying to make them fit

Tailoring a suit of stanzas

that fits the read

of one 

and many

October 17, 2020

Day 17 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Children Of Daedalus

 

Rivets

instead of wax

Steel

instead of feathers

Not to attain freedom

but to celebrate freedom

Daedalus's descendants

know not to fly

toward the sun

but under it

Risen apes

become angels

in the blue sky

October 16, 2020

Day 16 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

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The Call Of Real Fiction

 

I know what I should be doing

and it is what I want to do

want to do

and yet

and

yet

My fabricated friends

do call to me

always there

always true

always

the same

My companions

made of light

Do I

carve on a dead tree

with black blood

or

do

I

beam up

or

take any road to Rome

or

ride into Deadwood

or

Dexter dive

or

go to Hell

October 15, 2020

Day 15 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

beam up = Star Trek, Star Trek The Next Generation

Deadwood

Dexter

go to Hell = Lucifer

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I Can't Shake My Words At 6am

 

Warmth around me

floating

peace

yes, peace

Then the light

always finds a way

and the peace

slides away

and the body

feels again

The brain begins to fire

skin begins to bump

I rise

barely rise

Feet to floor

I slog thru

morning preparations

for the day

Pen to paper

isn't even

a thing

when I

can barely 

have a thought

October 14, 2020

Day 14 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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The Edge Of The End

 

There's no blood

with the moon

the skin thins

tears

and gravity comes

for the flesh

pulling it down

down

toward the grave

that will not long

be as empty

as an unused womb

October 13, 2020

Day 13 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Paper Planets

 

Keystroke down

to the left

to the right

create a word

create a world

palaces

and

planets

jungles

and

gyms

There is nothing to stop

your Big Bang

except an imagination

empty of building blocks

or

a power outage

October 12, 2020

Day 12 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

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Starkers

 

In a sea of 

sweat and hormones

desire and dopamine

there is no confusion

We know we are bare

Lick at every pulse point

eat away at every fantasy

say the naked words

of who we are

and what we want

until

we are full

and exposed

unprotected

and sated

October 11, 2020

Day 11 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: confusion, eat, full, lick, sea, starkers.

Dopamine: a type of neurotransmitter, that the nervous system uses to send messages between nerve cells, it plays a role in how we feel pleasure, and is a part of our unique human ability to think and plan.

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Blooming Worry

You're a hard worry, boy

caramel cool

enormous and sweet

My brain begins to pant

conversing with you

and

always

behind everything

I wonder

if I'm the flower

whose petals

you're going

to want

to bloom

around you

October 10, 2020

Day 10 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: boy, caramel, cool, enormous, flower, hard, pant, worry.

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Starlike Image

I have a secret

a scheme

to surround you

to be

inside you

to do things

to you

only hinted at

in Sci-Fi

You're like

a quasar I want to grab

by the hips

and pull your energy

into me

We'll light up the night sky

October 9, 2020

Day 9 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: inside, scheme, Sci-Fi, secret, surround, quasar.

Quasar: a massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope (it has been suggested that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of some galaxies).

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Gonna

 

I'm gonna put a garland of flowers

on my head

and one of vines

around my inner critic

My ego's gonna

dance across the floor

My hips are gonna trace

a Rune of ecstasy

across your sheets

I'm gonna kill large

I'm gonna kill it quietly

except

when I'm gonna

make you scream

October 8, 2020

Day 8 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: ego, garland, kill, large, Rune.

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Display Your Wares

 

When your bed

is not the seat

of the little death

but an empty tomb

When there's

steam in your belly

and your brain's

gone dumb

When you understand

you don't want

to be L.O.O.

and part of 

the Sidewalk Sale

When you know it's time

to hit the cliches

up your game

dress to impress

and find yourself

Mr. Right

although a 

Mr. RightNow

will certainly 

do

October 7, 2020

Day 7 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: belly, loo, steam, tomb, understand.

L.O.O. = Last One Out (of the pub at closing time).

Sidewalk Sale = singles on the sidewalk in front of a pub after closing.

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Phantasmagoria

 

Of all the areas

in my mind

it's Lot 665

that I both

love and fear

It's a field 

of dark bits and bobs

sharp edges

blades and diamonds

A crypt of dead memories

watched over by a raven

screeching an eternally tight haunting

or in repose

tranquil

at rest

If toss 

brings it on

then why

cannot turn

send it off

October 6, 2020

Day 6 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: bits and bobs, crypt, field, lot, raven, tight, tranquil.

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Rise

I had an idea

to take the ape

and freak him up

to infect his life

with a higher form

of mind

Now he is on the precipice

oblivion

existence

Will he regain his balance

Will he create peace

Or will he fall

October 5, 2020

Day 5 of 31

October Poetry Writing Month 2020

Magnetic Poetry pull prompt: ape, freak, him, idea, life mind, peace.

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