Urban Legend Poetically

Updated on December 5, 2017
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Ralph Schwartz
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Pagan Poetry is a specialty of mine - I have a website called TheGypsyThread with more of my work.

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A Single Car on Lover's Lane

Moonlight Murders

Scratching Sounds

Of a Hook Hand


New Orleans Night Doctors

Black Bottle Men

Make the Living Dead

Maniacal Medicine


Cropsey's Axe

Underground on Staten Island

Willowbrook Woes

Missing children


A Strange Face in the Mirror

Reflection or Someone Else

Bloody Mary

She's Waiting


Babysitter

Have You Checked the Children

Don't Answer the Phone

He Knows You're Alone


Bunnyman

Under the Clifton Bridge

Bodies Hanging

No Suspect Found


Featureless and White

What You Fear the Most

Answer His Question

Slender Man


Evening Revelry

Blacking Out

Bathtub Full of Ice

Kidney Missing


Fact or Fiction

Does it Matter?

Risk it All

Urban Legends


Urban Legends

Each stanza of this poem comes from a different urban legend. Some have roots that seem to lend credibility to the stories, but in the end, most are considered false or fictional....or are they?

Can you name them all?

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    • Gypsy Rose Lee profile image

      Gypsy Rose Lee 

      11 months ago from Riga, Latvia

      Oh, I really loved this.

    • RJ Schwartz profile imageAUTHOR

      Ralph Schwartz 

      11 months ago from Idaho Falls, Idaho

      These are all American urban legends - most have a backstory which can help you discover their origins

    • manatita44 profile image

      manatita44 

      11 months ago from london

      Don't know, Bro. Probably all American. That does not necessarily mean I shouldn't know. Interesting poetry.

    • pstraubie48 profile image

      Patricia Scott 

      11 months ago from sunny Florida

      No I cannot name them all...but you showcased these well. Are there such things a rural legends of the haunting kind ?

      Well there must be as we had several in the small area in Virginia where I grew up.

      Well done...

      Angels are on the way to you this morning ps

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