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Noah Thall asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Can you help with a title for this poem that doesn't give away the ending?

they scurry at night

i hear them

not real footsteps just

faint scrabbling sounds

on low pile carpets

they hide from me

somewhere under the furniture

unseen

i see movement

out of the corner of my eye

was it them or just

a twitch of the dog's tail

i don't see anything now

and the dog is

nowhere in sight

imagined

quiet nights i could swear

i hear giggles

from under the recliner

where i am reading

i stop to listen

was it imagined

or is it them mocking me

nothing

they escape all efforts

at detection

but i know they are there

those minutes of life

that add up to hours

then days and then years

they are the last ones left

escaping

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    phantasmagoria. its a fancy term used for words like grim, dark, mysterious or eerie. it fits perfect in my opinion.

    Source(s): poet.
  • 1 decade ago

    I as thinking Gremlin or There's a rat in the kitchen what am I going to do ...

    I'm not a poet sorry :)

    Interesting poem I thought thank you :)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    something like "listen" or "in the night"

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    'Grains of Sand'

    as those from an hour glass.

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