Things that go bump in the night!

       While sitting at the table
       After finishing a meal
       I heard a little noise
       But I didn't think to squeal

       While watching TV later
       The cat pounced near the fire
       I pulled my feet onto my chair
       But I didn't quite expire

       Later in the kitchen
       Making a cup of tea
       A rattle in the teabags...
       A mouse stared right at me!

       EEEEKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!

Lady D
 
 
 
 
 

  Tired Poets

       If some of our friends don't go Bump here soon
       They are likely to get ostracised,
       Which can be unpalatably painful,
       I hope you've all realised.
       Bump, Bump, Bump.

       le fantôme-solitaire amical
 
 
 
 
 

     Bump Bump Bump

       Bump Bump Bump
       Please don't ostracise me!
       Thump Thump Thump
       And please do not capsize me!

       I went out on a boat
       In the middle of the night
       What I saw around me
       Gave me an awful fright

       A host of ghosts surrounded me
       Said "Go to Poet's Portaloo
       Quickly before it is too late!
       Or you'll meet your Waterloo!"

       So I paddled and paddled
       As fast as I could
       Away from the ghost
       That was wearing a hood

       And came to write about
       In Death's Valley
       Where black things were flying
       Around in the alley

       We didn't know what those things were
       Can you take a guess at that?
       Mesmerising as they were
       Not viewed by me before, the bat.

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  Bumpless

       Nothing went bump in the night, last night,
       Not even le fantôme,
       To waken me it would have taken
       Not less than a bomb!

       le fantôme-serein amical
 
 
 

  Wooooo-ooo-oo

       When you encounter an old banshee
       The blood in your veins will be iced
       But that will be nothing, compared with your fear,
       When attacked by a poltergeist!
 

       le fantôme-wooo-oo amical
 
 
 
 
 
 

  A BRIGHT IDEA

       "What's that creak?" the child cowers
       A sheltering pillow, buried for hours
       Peek not past the blanket edge
       Horror movies all re-dredge
       Until "Lightswitch!" a brain empowers

       Lady D
 
 
 

 Bump, Bump, me bum/p

      Rap, rap, I'm a ghost,
      I deviate from the theme,
      Because I don't Bump,
      I just rap and I scream.

      What's more, I do not
      Do it only at night,
      It means nothing to me
      When I give you a fright!

      For my amusement
      I'll lurk in your houses,
      Attired in a shroud
      Or, more likely, trousers.

      With my head on my neck
      Or under my arm
      I'll over-excite you
      But mean you no harm.

      le fantôme-croyable amical
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Replay from the day

      Lying in bed all cosy and warm
      I hear a sound that's not the norm
      A crashing frypan
      Voices murmur and....
      No one there when in I storm
 

      Lady D
 
 
 

 What's that Tapping?

      T'was a sound quite eerie
      on a night quite dreary
      a constant tapping at my door.
      "Please go away," I did implore.

      But it continued through the night
      causing me terrific fright.
      As dawn approached, I venured out
      fearing what I'd find, no doubt.

      I felt relief down to my core.
      T'was just a branch, and nothing more.

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 Wooooo-ooo-oo

      Things that go bump in the night
      And moanings that give you a fright;
      A spook with another to hector,
      And screaming chain-saw to bisect 'er,
      Howling away through the night,
      Then you all need the amiable spectre.

      le fantôme-scieur amical
 
 
 
 
 

 Was it a Bump?

      Twenty years ago
      I lived in Perth
      In a bottom level flat
      Close to the earth

      Every night
      This bumping sound
      Above my head
      Came to the ground

      Then a rolling noise
      Was heard
      Like ball bearings
      In a word

      I'll never know
      What that noise was
      My mind was boggling
      Over in Oz

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The Dark Hours

      We live in the country with no street lights
      So the house is as dark as pitch at nights
      When nature calls and I roam from bed
      I try to walk through walls instead

      Lady D
 
 
 
 
 

The Dark, Dark Hours

      I've been in Lady D's house in the dark,
      Arisen and done it, too.
      She should have night-lights along her hallway,
      Defining the track to the loo.

      le fantôme amical
 
 
 

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