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Dr.Moose1
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0 posted 2003-10-28 01:58 PM


A host of former occupants await the Witching hour.
The darkened halls reverberate with echoes from the tower
that houses in it's highest peak, the clock whose telling hands,
approach the apex of this night, that ghosts will soon command.

Their presence even now I feel, an eerie chill befalls,
it seems almost to emanate from within these mouldered walls.
The faint sound of machinery that drives the pendulum
is joined by ululations, now the Witching hour has come.

Within this haunt of phantasms the jibber jabber grows.
It shrieks across the chasm, speaks of things which no one knows,
from a time that's long forgotten with the grimness of the grave,
does the jibber jabber fill my ears until, at last, I rave...

from the depths of my delusion onto your computer screens,
having come to the conclusion that it must be Halloween.



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1 posted 2003-10-28 02:01 PM


Oh I loved it!  Can't wait to read this over the phone to a little girl who is loving the coming of Halloween, thank you!

Try to make time to listen to
someone who talks with their heart.

Carpe' Diem

Seymour Tabin
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2 posted 2003-10-28 02:30 PM


Dr.Moose1
An excellent write, enjoyed the read very much.

Tim
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3 posted 2003-10-28 11:56 PM


It is a fine poem you have graced us with. Enjoyed the read.
SharaRose
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4 posted 2003-10-29 12:02 PM


Wow I could just hear this spooky music in my thoughts. Good one for Halloween.
Love,
Terri~

serenity blaze
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5 posted 2003-10-29 12:12 PM


You are always good, Doc.

You write this as though you have known a few witches in your time.

I thoroughly enjoyed the flow and the skill of writing which makes your work read with such ease. (although I confess at the present time I can't say "ululations" to save my life) Must be the merlot.

Cheers, doc!

ice
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6 posted 2003-10-29 06:36 AM


Doc:
Is the Jibber Jabber related to the Jabberwock? I think only Lewis Carrol would know the answer to that..I also think he would have liked this poem, as I do..
Thanks for sharing....ice/ford

littlewing
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7 posted 2003-10-29 09:03 AM


*smile*

just the prescription I needed today
I adore this
xxoo

Dr.Moose1
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8 posted 2003-10-29 07:20 PM


Mysteria,
Thank you so much, I'd be honored.
Doc
Sy,
Happy halloween my friend, I'm glad you liked.
Doc
Tim,
From deep within his bag of tricks he pulls a tasty treat, to accolades of such as this that ring the more so sweet. Thanks.
Doc
Terri,
Thanks. Like a big kid with a new toy, I enjoy this very much.
Doc
Serenity,
I have no former knowledge of this thing you have proposed. But, then again when meeting them it's possible I dozed, under their spell
so who can tell what's real and what's not,
so I'll just tell you this my friend, and that is, thanks alot.
Doc
Ice,
I do believe they may be related, perhaps distant cousins ( it's so hard to keep these things straight now-a-days). In any event I am grateful to even have this piece.
mentioned in the same sentence.
Doc
littlewing,
So glad to be of service, Thank you!
Doc

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