Shiral

Shiral
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Mountain View, California, United States
Birthday
February 05
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I was born the same year Kennedy was assassinated. My parents got divorced during the Summer of Love ('67) I'm not a journalist, I'm just a dedicated Democratic Library Assistant with a lot of bottled-up rants. But I'll try to be amusing when possible. _________________________ My Late Friend Kim would agree with this: "Nobody should die because they can't afford Health Insurance. Nobody should go broke because they get sick." Teddy, Greg and Roger, I'm SO with you on this one. And also with everyone else displaying this

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Salon.com
OCTOBER 31, 2009 1:08PM

Samhain Poetry

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Ghost on Stairs 

 Age Doesn’t Matter, Anymore 

I died in 1348 of the Black Plague.

You,in the Hundred Years’ War.

I lived in Rome and you in London

We would not have met in life.

 

Isn’t it wonderful that death renders

 life’s barriers vague,

And that our age difference

Truly doesn’t matter anymore?  

 

Your Personal Ad was Far Too Modest 

Your stringy gray hair, 
Your greenish complexion and yellowed teeth,
Your rusty gate voice, and fierce yellow eyes;
Your classic, spider-infested dilapidated Victorian,
High on an isolated hill, a town full of frightened children beneath.

 Squid tentacles writhe in your witches brew

I’m enchanted by its toxic fumes!

Your silhouette is classic as you fly on your broom

 Against the silver full moon. 

But there is one thing I do not understand about you;

Witch of my dreams,

why is it thatIn your personal ad, you did not

Mention that classic whiskered wart

At the end of your long, bony nose?  

Lugosi Dracula  

Get Your Vampire Lore Straight 

Sunlight? No, thank you

 Dust into dust I shall be,

Snug dark coffin, please 

 

Mummy 

 

It Was A While Ago 

But don’t think I have

Forgotten you, who entered

My Pyramid, then.

 

 

 

Three Witches 

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Poor witches, always getting a bad rap. Personally I've met tons of them and found them to be very wart free and quite nice. Well, one had a wart, but not on her nose and the doc took care of it rather quickly.
Ooh - nice and creepy, Shiral! Happy Halloween!
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Very clever Halloween poems, but the first--wow, I thought that was really touching to think about.
death comes like a pie in the face.

comic to the one delivering it.

tragic to the one receiving it.
The ghouls are out this week!
Poor Glen Beck even gets the Halloween hex! Me thinks he is goulishly misunderstood! Hah!
wow, this is excellent!!! creepy and also amusing. wow. love love love
What At home Pilgrim said. I thought that first one was stunning.
Glad I finally got a chance to read this. I loved the first poem. It has some very interesting implications.

Monte
I can't describe great poetry, but I know it when I see it. This is terrific.