"Hallowe'en Travels" (Entry 488)

Husky hushed whispers 

This vesper time. 

No song, this eve'n. 

Only tear-stained dusk. 

As it must. 

A deathly air caresses this twilight. 

Darktide stallions take flight. Beware!

For they're worse than nightmares. 

Allowed from their world, past 'in-between.'

They have the power on Hallowe'en. 

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Happy Hallowe'en!

🌜👻🎃👻🌛

"A Grave Tale" (Entry 487)

A grave expression was what was required

For this undertaking. 

Needed to be dead-pan, for this death's plan. 

Sober-sided at muddy-sided hole. 

The whole thing bleak and deep. 

Then the coughing started,

As the coffin started to descend. 

Disrupted proceedings at this fellow's end, no end. 

A funeral, no fun at all. 

"On Your Marks, Get Spooky!" (Entry 486)

Week of scares. 

Catch unawares. 

Hide in places

And watch their faces. 

All good fun

For everyone. 

Give a cheer,

Halloween is near!

"Wails about Gales" (Entry 485)

Doom and gloom 

Shouted the news. 

Armageddon's blowing down. 

Winds and rains,

Rattled at panes. 

Throughout the fields and the towns. 

Some destruction. 

Sadly deaths. 

Though most can tell the tale. 

Stormy night. 

Caused a fright. 

Onwards goes our time of gales. 

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My love and best wishes to all those affected by last night's/this morning's storms here in the UK.

"Blue Over Sky Box Setting" (Entry 484)

Dark nights schedules

Bringing forth

Many tears, drama 

And mirth. 

What to choose

and record? 

So much that I

Want to hoard. 

Problem is Sky Plus 

Almost full. 

What to red button?

What to pull?

Increase percentage,

Get on and watch. 

Can't delete programmes,

All top notch. 

Need to make the provision. 

Arrrggghhh! Now, there's a collision!

Change the times, what's my decision?

Of all this good stuff on the television. 

"Not This Little Girl!" (Entry 483)

Vampires and Demons, Their Hunters and Ghosts. 

Gods and Fairies and Star Trek Outposts. 

Sci-fi and Fantasy and All Types of History. 

Comedy and Drama and Geek Tech and Mystery. 

Numbers and Words and A Well-Written Book. 

Documentary and Theatre and TV with a Hook. 

Conspiracy Tale and UFO Story. 

Any of this, and I'm in my glory. 

TARDIS, the Doctor, Strictly Saturday and laughter. 

Friends and Kitties, Steampunk and Delving the Hereafter. 

Eclectic in rhythm with a rock gothy twist. 

Magical thinking, all Supernatural, is right on my list. 

So sugar 'n' spice, gets some girlies glowing. 

This what makes me me and gets this one going!

"Book Cooked Memories" (Entry 482)

I found a cook book on charity shelf. 

A throw-back to the time of my younger self. 

Full of recipes of decade gone past. 

70's vibe of meatloaf and corn beef hash. 

I scanned these pages as a child

and taste the moments they beguiled. 

A simple book full of memories flavour,

Now mine to own, remember and savour. 

"Sing Life's Song" (Entry 481)

I smile at jokes from distance times.  

Although I alone remember. 

Now the tears flow, I don't know why. 

My heart and soul are in embers. 

My laughter turns and anger burns. 

As the truth dissolves the fences. 

Though I yearn, it's you that spurned. 

Destroying all of my defences. 

But I'll grin against the hurt. 

Lifting chin up to the skies. 

There's a new hope to assert. 

I walk on with clearer eyes. 

I am strong, know where I belong. 

I have a future of which I'm proud. 

You were wrong, this is my song. 

It's my life and I'll sing it out loud. 

"A New Plague" (Entry 480)

Ring-a-ring the telephone. 

A pocket full o' Twitter. 

A text here. A message there. 

We all Facebook 'Like'!

"What Are You Wearing?" ( Entry 479)

What's in season?

What's in the stores?

Watch the trends turn. 

Seen all that before. 

Choose a shape, then

A favourite shade. 

Take to the street. 

Daily catwalk parade. 

Living the life

By cut and colour. 

Fashion's on show

By the pound and the dollar. 

By the time that you own it,

It's already old hat. 

What's the deal in a year?

'Cause I'm wearing that!

"Autumn Warrior" (Entry 478)

Autumn warrior

October's fighter in flight

Wasp wars on window 

"tides" (Entry 477)

tides rise and fall

but never turn -

just like you

will never learn

"The Reluctant Speaker" (Entry 476)

Breath caught and fought back. 

No time for an attack. 

Calm lungs, brain and throat. 

Can't do this! I'll grab my coat!

Stay focused and still. 

Turn-my? Now-me-kill!

Can't get in-order-words!

Gosh! This is so absurd!

It's only a five minute speech. 

Why does it feel outside my reach?

Too many faces staring my way. 

Can't I return another day?

Shuffle papers to shuffling feet. 

This is ridiculous! I can't compete. 

Force a smile, a pause, a cough and then first squeak. 

Five minutes pass... (applause, of course)

Thanks! I could come back next week?

"The You Forecast" (Entry 475)

There were rainbows once. 

Blue skies too. 

Now all is stormy. 

Without you. 

"A Deeper Pain" (Entry 474)

Shifted beneath unyielding pain,

I dug further to, in hope, that naught remain. 

But as I clawed into my mind. 

The deeper shafts, the more to find. 

Sifted through the depths deep to dwell. 

Only to discover my personal hell.

"Rhyme of Old Thyme" (Entry 473)

I rued the hour

You came to power

When I heard upon the tower

High above the town of Dover,

Where I used to run in clover, 

I knew that my life was over.

"Seasons Seasoning" (Entry 472)

a taste of summer

in autumn's rusty flavour

memories relish

"Nonsense. Non Such Perfect Poem" (Entry 471)

If only I'd known 

It at the time. 

I might have had a better rhyme. 

If only I knew 

And could have rehearsed. 

Maybe I'd write a cooler verse. 

If only then was now. 

Researched better so I'd know him. 

Then I could have written the perfect poem!

"Beyond Above" (Entry 470)

Drift away to special places. 

Filled with all familiar faces. 

Held in warmth, caressed with love. 

This must be Heaven above. 

"Used Five Minutes" (Entry 469)

They were somebody. 

'til life trended on 'shoddy'. 

Now brand moved to new scenes,

Left them rotting has-beens. 

Fallen from graces and their high tower. 

Champagne flutes turn notes sour. 

Five minutes of fame's so bizarre!

"Don't you know who we are?"

No, actually we don't. Not anymore. 

Get off your condescension, you're both such a bore!

"A Little Rain" (Entry 468)

Patter on, little rain. 

It's your job, every now and again. 

Pitter on the windowpane. 

I will watch, and here I'll remain. 

Until the time,

When your work is done. 

Then I will leave

To play in the sun. 

"Life Garden" (Entry 467)

The garden bloomed 

just as it should. 

The cycle of life, 

as I knew it would. 

"Beyond Sense" (Entry 466)

I drink of dance. 

I cry at clouds. 

I laugh at impossible dreams. 

I caress at thoughts. 

I listen to stars. 

I look beyond what it seems. 

I watch the whispers. 

I talk to mountains. 

I taste at new-formed ideas. 

I hear the shadows. 

I rush to closed doors. 

I know it is not as it appears. 

"Fashionista's Front" (Entry 465)

So proud and haughty. 

(And slightly naughty?)

Attempt at hiding the glimpse

Of emotions flair. 

Forcing down the twinkling imp. 

Pads on lacquer held in lap. 

Would a smile really sap

The veneer you harden?

So not to appear to beg the pardon 

Of the lower mortals, lesser classes

With laser eyes, these social unordered lasses. 

Crossed ankles, uncrossed vision. 

An upturned snout shows derision. 

What's behind the mannequin you wear?

Is it joyous, clever, or is nothing there?

That's what people expect, isn't it?

But I don't think that. Not one bit!

"A Ripped Memory" (Entry 464)

A hazy day amongst the grey

Reminds me of that rip

Half a life ago

When you were taken away. 

"Social and Content or Social Content?" (Entry 463)

Too content

To make my own content. 

Read than write. 

That can't be right. 

Can it?

Let's see what others think on Twitter,

YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and...

Oh, the nosedive my talent took!

Get creative. Social?

Time to ban it!

Then again maybe not... ;-)

"Empty Space" (Entry 462)

Where have you been?

Where do you go?

Missed from my life. 

Where? I didn't know. 

An empty place 

To my right. 

It felt all wrong. 

Alone in the night.

But now you're back. 

Where you should be. 

So 'fraid. I'll never ask. 

Trapped by my absentee. 

"Strip Off!" (Entry 461)

Strip off

Expose

Lay bare

The naked truth that's you. 

Lift up

Disrobe

Undress

Be rid of the mask. Be new!

Peel off

Tear away

Shed the skin

Show the real magic within. 

Unwrap

Reveal

Display 

Your love and heart within. 

"Dream Diagram" (Entry 460)

Dislocate the diagram

To discover the drama

Underneath. 

Delve into darkness

Find delight of the dream

So deep. 

"Silent Snores" (Entry 459)

Oh? I dream of silence. 

Past your noise. 

Of grunting and groaning

And snores and more. 

But when your pillows cold

And your rest in another place. 

I dream of your breath, your snuffles, your face. 

"Dance Encore!" (Entry 458)

Listen to the score. 

You don't dance anymore. 

I beseech and implore. 

Take to the floor

And not the door. 

Rhythmic galore!

Three step or four. 

Spin 'til feet are so sore. 

You know what's in store. 

The beat's never a chore. 

A new dance or times yore. 

Street moves or folklore. 

That sway all adore. 

It's my life and your 

if you only let it soar. 

From the oath which you roar. 

Let go, live, enjoy and pour

Out what's kept at soul's core. 

Call out dance encore! Encore!

More! More! More!

"Dreep Dinkly" (Entry 457)

Drink! Drink deeply!

Dreep Dinkly!

Drink! Drunk!

With joy. 

Deserve the nectar

In this moment. 

Feel the warmth it gives

And the light that shines

Within

And from your smile. 

It only appears once in ale while. 

"So, You've Gone" (Entry 456)

I wept once. 

When I heard you had gone. 

Not for you,

For those left behind. 

You hurt. 

You were worth-less and less. 

And yet. And yet. 

You destroyed more 

Than you ever gave. 

So I and we wave goodbye.

No more tears shed

On the life you lead. 

"Bring Back" (Entry 455)

Bring back the love

And sunshine dreams. 

Bring back new hope

And inspiration gleams.

Bring back laughter

And idea lightning beams. 

Give me life now

And all that it seems.

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Wow! Poem 455! 

That means only 100 to go!

Thank you so much for reading all my verses. 

Do you have a favourite? Please let me know in the comments. If you do post a message, I'll tweet your name on my twitter feed (please give me your twitter address, if you want to.)

Only 100 to go. I hope you'll stay with me.  Thank you again! 

"Breath Important" (Entry 454)

In and out. 

Out and in. 

With a pout,

In air that's thin. 

Breath emergent. 

So important. 

Always resurgent. 

Works divergent. 

Stuff of now. 

If this we vow. 

Breath allow. 

To live and how!