Horror Is Less Horrible than Life

November 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Halloween, which was celebrated on October 31.

Today’s poem is a Halloween poem about horror as a useful emotional exercise.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Horror is less horrible than life.

At least for most of us, it's an escape.

Let the nightmares out! Let squealers quake!

Let them safely fear the fictive knife!

Open up the Hell of undreamt dreams!

Wake the monsters lurking in the heart!

Exercise our fantasies through art,

Else dormant in a world of in-betweens,

Necessary nostrum of extremes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/horro2.html. For more Halloween poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/halloweenpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Halloween

October 30: Witches, Werewolves, Ghosts, and Ghouls

October 31: Hobnob with the Hobgoblins

November 1: Hell Has Little Hope of Happiness

November 2: Have Witches Gone the Way of Wonders

November 3: Harbingers of Unimagined Horrors

November 4: Happiness, All Snug, Lies Fast Asleep

November 5: Horror Is Less Horrible than Life