Horror Poetry Set #017



THE BLUE MAN (21/05/2021)
The Blue man circles
Invisibly in a pool,
Choking lone swimmers

THE BLUE MAN APPEARS (21/05/2021)
The Blue Man appears
As if from now to drag
A woman to her death.

THE BLUE MAN DIVING (21/05/2021)
Diving down the throat
Of a beautiful bather,
Drowning her quickly.

THE BLUE MAN DROWNING (21/05/2021)
The Blue Man drowning
Everyone he encounters,
In a public pool.

THE DARKLING SPREADING (21/05/2021)
The darkling spreading
Fear and chaos worldwide,
Feeding his evil thirst.

THE EVIL PIPER (21/05/2021)
An evil piper
Playing his songs of madness,
Driving all insane.

THE GREEN MAN (21/05/2021)
Made of grass and vines
The Green Man strangles prey,
Leeches their fluids out.

THE GREEN MAN BLENDING (21/05/2021)
Blending into grass
Hiding within hedges,
The Green Man can't be caught.

THE GREEN MAN COILING (21/05/2021)
Coiling like a snake
Through the unmown grasses,
Around a country town.

THE GREEN MAN SAFE (22/05/2021)
Ivy vines rippling
The Green Man hides within,
Safe from the angry hordes.

THE GREEN MERMAID REAL (22/05/2021)
People stop and stare
Wondering if the mermaid,
Could be truly real?

THE GREEN MERMAID TOO CLOSE (22/05/2021)
Ignoring warnings
Sometimes people get too close,
Then they may vanish.

THE GREEN MERMAID OUTSIDE (22/05/2021)
Outside of water
Her true form is revealed,
Too horrid to consider.

THE GREEN MERMAID OUTSIDE (22/05/2021)
All lethal sharp spines
Teeth as long as carving knives,
The Mermaid's true form.

THE GREEN MERMAID UGLY (22/05/2021)
Legs green and scaly
No green beauty now in sight,
Only ugliness.

THE ICE MAN APPEARS (21/05/2021)
Oceans become ice
Deserts become oceans as,
The Ice Man appears.

INFERNO SPREADS FEAR (21/05/2021)
Inferno spreads fear
Through the town and country,
Burning people to ash.

THE LILYWHITE BOYS (21/05/2021)
Sand, cement, water
Go to make living demons,
The Lilywhite Boys.

THE LILYWHITE BOYS RISE UP (21/05/2021)
Like living mortar
The Lilywhite Boys rise up,
Straight from the footpath.

THE LILYWHITE BOYS GRAB YOU (21/05/2021)
Flowing like water
Concrete lets the Lilywhites,
Rise up to grab you.

THE MAD PAINTER (21/05/2021)
Lovecraftean fiends
Brought to life through images,
By the mad Painter.

THE MAN-OF-IRON (21/05/2021)
Manlike metal thing
Thunders through an old building,
Killing all it finds.

THE MAN-OF-IRON COMES (21/05/2021)
Clanking old metal
Like an ancient robot,
The Man-Of-Iron Comes.

THE MAN-OF-IRON CRIPPLING (21/05/2021)
Hands like steel vices
Crippling or killing anyone,
Who invades his home.

THE MAN-OF-IRON CRUNCHING (21/05/2021)
Guillotine-like mouth
Crunching through metal or bone,
Protecting his home.

THE PAINTER (21/05/2021)
Hippogryphs, vampires
Werewolf, zombies, and ghouls,
The Painter brings to Life.

THE PAINTER PAINTING (21/05/2021)
The Painter painting
A lullaby of despair,
No hope remaining.

THE PAINTER PAINTS (21/05/2021)
The Painter paints
A portrait that brings madness,
To anyone who sees it.

THE PIPER (21/05/2021)
Playing evil tunes
The Piper brings death with him,
To a small village.

THE PIPER'S COMING (21/05/2021)
The Piper's coming
Playing a tune of chaos.
Spreading fear around.

THE PIPER BRINGING DEATH (21/05/2021)
Melodious tunes
Wafting into a small down,
Piper bringing death.

THE PUPPETEER'S FUN (22/05/2021)
Dolls and puppets live
Humans reduced to puppets,
The Puppeteer's fun.

THE PUPPETEER LAUGHS (22/05/2021)
Living dolls amok
Through a frightened village,
The Puppeteer laughs.

THE PUPPETEER IN TOWN (22/05/2021)
Strung up like villains
Once living people dance
The Puppeteer in town.

TAR BABIES (21/05/2021)
Tar Babies crawling
Out of La Brea's pits, luring
Human's to their doom

TAR BABIES BEGUILING (21/05/2021)
Beguiling people
To follow them to their death,
Tar Babies cooing.

TAR BABIES COAX (21/05/2021)
Slick with oily tar
Tar Babies coax victims,
To follow to their death.

THAT IS THE VERDILLAC (22/05/2021)
Lethal eagle's beak
Upon a ratlike face,
That is the verdillac.

UPON THE PAINTER'S WALLS (21/05/2021)
Evil pictures hang
Upon the Painter's walls,
Loosing sundry terrors.

THE VERDILLAC FLIES (22/05/2021)
With legs like steel bands
Its wings tipped in evil claws,
The Verdillac flies.

THE VERDILLAC OVERHEAD (22/05/2021)
Like a monstrous bat
The Verdillac overhead,
Watching children play.

THE VERDILLAC PREHISTORIC? (22/05/2021)
Scales instead of feathers
Like some flying reptile,
Prehistoric beast?

THE WRITER (21/05/2021)
The writer is here
Spreading chaos and terror,
Across the planet.

THE WRITER HAS WRIT (21/05/2021)
The writer has writ
An awful tale, of monsters
Which soon come to life.

THE WRITER LOVES DESPAIR (21/05/2021)
Dreadful tales of doom
Leaping right off the page,
The Writer Loves despair.

THE WRITER TAKES JOY (21/05/2021)
The Writer takes joy
From bringing legends to life,
Terrifying people.

THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on May 21, 2021

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Text too long
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 4,699
Words 750
Stanzas 47
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3

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