|
For Marsha on the occasion of her wearing a Victorian hat with billowing tulle
|
|
A limerick for a Halloween smile
|
|
Just a little limerick for Halloween
|
|
A tiny scare for Halloween
|
|
As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away."
- Hughes
Mearns
Sta..
|
|
Sad to say this is not really original. I heard something like this years ago and have re-created it.
|
|
I climb, unlighted, through the dark
secure. I know above what I will
find.
Ascending softly, borne by hope,
my heart a-thump and scarcely in
..
|
|
I know the eyeless ever-clawing scream
Dragged out from in the heart of my own mind
That fills the haunting starless nights of dream.
The blankness..
|
|
The goddess-w***e whose flying, flaming hair impales my heart with every strand yields and in surrender vanquishes me. Green eyes, the drowning-pool o..
|
|
In the dark and in the cold,
my spirit goes where the monsters go.
Through the cracks in the wall,
between the boards in the floor,
even through gaps..
|
|
|