2nd Halloween Poem Contest – Third group of submitted poems

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Your Animal Side by Angela Kay

I hear everyone has an animal side.

What is yours?

What is mine?

No one can really know for sure.

Could it be repulsive in the dark, silent night?

Save me from this frightening thought.

I saw a creature enter my room last night.

Could it be what I think?

This is not a story because I saw it.

As horrifying as it is, I believe I saw your animal side.

It’s not ordinary.

Do you want to know what it is?

I saw a big shadow on the wall.

The eyes were blood red in the mirror.

I saw gruesome fangs.

The creature howled at the round moon

And tore into my soft, clean flesh.

I fought back, teeth sharp and hungry

Our animal side has gotten the better of us.

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Written by Kevin Morris

Walking through the churchyard on Halloween.

A peaceful scene

With only my dog and the dead

(the latter inspire no dread),

To provide company as I stroll home

Alone?

 

A russle in the bushes.

My heart rushes,

It’s irregular beat

Out of time with my feet.

I would be a fool

To conjure up some ghoul

Would I not?

Yet this is a graveyard plot …

 

My pace quickens

As the darkness thickens.

Soon

The moon

Will disappear.

My home is near.

Why this fear

Of shadows of the mind?

 

I can find

No logical reason

For my brain’s treason.

It is our own kind

Not the rotten dead

That should ingender dread

In the rational man’s head.

With all that said

I long to be alone

In my brightly lit  home …   

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