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

Happiness, All Snug, Lies Fast Asleep

November 4, 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 addressed to the spirits who wander the night.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness, all snug, lies fast asleep

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,

Let loose upon the Earth till it be light,

Laughing revelers, whom death doth keep.

O spirits lost, who wail but cannot weep,

Wanton worshippers of rage and spite,

Each the unknown author of its plight,

Equal in the pain you sow and reap,

Now come to us from out your vasty deep!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happi9.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

Harbingers of Unimagined Horrors

November 3, 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 summons the spirits for Halloween.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Harbingers of unimagined horrors,

Avatars of those who rule the night,

Lurking in the shallows of our shadows

Like fish that lack the lungs to breathe the light;

Omens from an almanac of sorrows

Written on a midnight long ago,

Etched into the mirrors of our marrows,

Ever masks for what we dare not know:

Now revel with us till the cocks thrice crow!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/harbi2.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

Have Witches Gone the Way of Wonders

November 2, 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 the role of superstition now and in the past.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Have witches gone the way of wonders,

Asterisks of yesterday?

Life restores what reason sunders,

Lest we lose our mind for play.

Once we knew that what we knew

Was like a ship upon a sea.

Evil spirits wandered through

Eternity, and what was true

Never tainted what might be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/havewi.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

Hell Has Little Hope of Happiness

November 1, 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 last night, October 31.

Today’s poem is a Halloween poem about devils as a lesson in morality.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hell has little hope of happiness.

A devil is eternally on fire,

Locked within unquenchable desire,

Longing with hatred for lost holiness.

On Halloween the devils and the dead

Wander through the world as though to warn

Each soul of an eternity forlorn,

Evangelists condemned to speak through dread,

Nightmares that must preach through pain till dawn.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/hellha.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

Hobnob with the Hobgoblins

October 31, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about letting out a little fear on Halloween.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hobnob with the hobgoblins

And gather with the ghouls!

Let the monsters in your heart

Loose to run with wolves!

Open up your happy Hell,

Window on your weir!

Even as you know quite well

Each demon from your dungeon will

Not ravish long your fear.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/hobnob.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

Witches, Werewolves, Ghosts, and Ghouls

October 30, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a poem for children about being frightened on Halloween.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Witches, werewolves, ghosts, and ghouls

Love to frighten little fools.

I'm not frightened! No, not me!

Is that a ghost behind that tree?

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/witch2.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