General Poetry posted November 10, 2024

Debi Pick Marquette

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I started writing poetry when I was 8 years old. In third grade I was inspired by Joyce Kilmer's poem called, "Trees."

Then when I married & started my family, I still loved to write, - more...

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He's not your average monster

Cornfield Frankenstein

by Debi Pick Marquette

Pantoum Poem Contest Contest Winner



I've never felt this eerie feeling in my bones before

He wears a tall tan hat and vest, and he has hollow eyes

Instead of scaring them, he makes the crows all dance and soar

A Michael Jackson Thriller face is part of his disguise



He wears a tall tan hat and vest, and he has hollow eyes 

His head will turn to give a wicked smile and evil glance

A Michael Jackson Thriller face is part of his disguise

A morbid feel is in the air by the crows screeching rants



His head will turn to give a wicked smile and evil glance

And in his boots, the mystery scarecrow is standing guard 

A morbid feel is in the air by the crows screeching rants

It's obvious the dog is spooked, that's barking in the yard



And in his boots, the mystery scarecrow is standing guard

He walks the rows all day, technology's brought him to life

It's obvious the dog is spooked, that's barking in the yard

Up closer it looks like his face has been under the knife



He walks the rows all day, technology's brought him to life

His moon-lit silhouette will send cold shivers down your spine

Up closer it looks like his face has been under the knife

He looks more like a modern-day and Cornfield Frankenstein

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Writing Prompt
The topic for this poetry contest is: HAUNTED SCARECROW

*This contest is brought to you by "The Little Workshop of Horrors" club*
Write a Pantoum poem with a minimum of four stanzas. No maximum. Your topic is a haunted scarecrow.
A pantoum is a poem that is made up of quatrains. In a pantoum the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next stanza. No required meter. Rhyme scheme is ABAB

EXAMPLE:
The Stranger

Who is that stranger looking back at me
with head atilt and wonder in her eyes?
She mimics all my movements perfectly,
she's hard to recognize in her disguise.

With head atilt and wonder in her eyes, Repeated
she seems familiar in a strange, weird way.
She's hard to recognize in her disguise, Repeated
is she a friend I knew well yesterday?

She seems familiar in a strange, weird way. Repeated
She's older far than me, or so it seems.
Is she a friend I knew well yesterday? Repeated
Perhaps I met her somewhere in my dreams.

She's older far than me, or so it seems. Repeated
She mimics all my movements perfectly.
Perhaps I met her somewhere in my dreams, Repeated
who is that stranger looking back at me?
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He's not your average monster

Cornfield Frankenstein

by Debi Pick Marquette

Pantoum Poem Contest Contest Winner

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