This Poem was Submitted By: Drenda D. Cooper On Date: 2002-10-30 09:58:37 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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House of Horrors (slightly revised)

Outside the sounds and smells of death engulf you in their spell. The huckster's tinny, rasping, voice entices you to visit hell. You must go in to win a fiendish dare. You're drifting in and out of empty, airless, eerie tombs; On through dankest, deeply darkened, tunneled spider wombs Of staring cobwebbed eyeballs limp and cold.  You hear voices moaning, groaning, gasping in their spastic fits; Screaming, begging, coaxing you come down into their pits Of nauseous slippy slime and musty mold. You're dazed by lifeless, bloodless corpses filling every room; Then startled as a blaring, warty witch perched on a broom Enfolds you in her foul and fetid cape. You run as huge rats follow through the hollow halls with creaky floors; Twisting, writhing, hissing, snakes surround two huge red doors, The only ones that lead to your escape. On shaking, quaking, rubbery legs with racing heart you lurch outside. You quickly smooth your frizzled hair and soothe your frazzled pride. So grateful for the sunlight's golden glare.

Copyright © October 2002 Drenda D. Cooper

Additional Notes:
Well, folks, its Halloween tomorrow and I could not resist!!


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