Floorboards creak at night
Phantom footsteps in the room
Cold spots lingering
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Do you guys watch any of those ghost shows on TV?
I’m currently hooked on this one.
Real or fake, who knows? But it is interesting to watch.
First sip of coffee
Finally able to look
Upon the morning
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She looked in the room
Thick dark black shadows looming
Hiding the monster
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Look at the old house
Ghosts linger and walk its halls
Waiting for victims
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Yes, commit to me
He said as he held her tight
Exposing his fangs
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Light from a street lamp
Casting shadows on the wall
Childhood fears reborn
Standing in my room
Shape of a ghostly figure
Dressed in ancient clothes
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Walking home alone
Sound of approaching footsteps
Causes her to jump
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Night’s apparitions
Hunters and lethal killers
Feasting on crimson
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Inspired by this song
The woods were silent
She chose to run into them
Killer on her heels
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I always thought this would be a great song for a chase scene in a movie where the monster of that story is after someone. I can see the chase starting as the music begins and then as the music builds the chase intensifies.
Darkness strangles you
Pushes you down into fear
Where the monsters hide
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Screaming in silence
Killer stalks some teenagers
No place you can hide
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Watched the original “Halloween” last night and this morning I am watching “Friday the 13th: Part VI: Jason Lives” in order to get psyched up for Halloween. So, I thought I would write a Haiku to go along with the movies and the holiday (my favorite one). Always loved this Alice Cooper song that is in Jason Lives. Thought it might get you in the Halloween mood.
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Yellow tinted leaves
A sign of fall arriving
Winter nipping soon
For more prompts like “winter” go here: A PROMPT EACH DAY
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After the earthquake
Rotten zombies with old flesh
Crawl from earthen graves
For more prompts like after go here: HAIKU HORIZONS
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As a total out of the blue side bar, I have to share this one today. My 3-year-old son said he liked the song “Margaritaville” today without me prompting him first. A lot of times if he acts like he likes a song or hums to it or something like that (mostly kid’s songs), I will ask if he likes it. He will say something about it, but today out of the blue he just said he liked “Margaritaville” with no prompting first. He’s been listening to Buffett and “Margaritaville” since he was at least 3 months old, maybe earlier than that. Kind of nice to know that I might just be raising another Parrothead. He loves the salt, salt, salt part of this song. Enjoy.
In a field you hang
Upon this wood post you wait
For the night’s darkness
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This was inspired by this post: https://magicalmysticalteacher.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/scarecrow/. Click on over there and check out a great site for poetry and haiku.
Fresh from the cold grave
Life returned to frozen limbs
Flesh craving zombie
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Face on the window
Made up of liquid droplets
Staring back at me
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I’m hoping to re-publish this short story today – 6/26/2015.
Stay tuned for freebies and places to purchase it.
The wicked green witch
On her brown broomstick she rides
Laughing at their tears
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And a bit from Wicked.
Idina Menzel just amazing!
Short story re-writes
I wake in my warm soft bed
To answer the call
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I’ve been working on a collection of short stories that I hope to release before Halloween. I do have a pretty cool cover for it already that you may or may not have seen already.
James is the designer of the cover and his work can be found here: http://www.goonwrite.com/index.htm
Before I leave you, here are a couple of things related to the title of this Haiku.
This is a solid slasher movie from the Eighties – one I still own on DVD. Cheap, creepy, and a great score.
A great song from the mighty Judas Priest – this is a ballad by them.
A Poetry Journey 
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