Dark Ride Poems

[mclunatic4evr]

Castle Dracula

Oh great Boardwalk Castle
Thou once stood proudly in the Heartland
The great count watched and waited
Perhaps knowing his fate all along
Years Past...
Bell bottoms gave way to VHS
And there was much rejoice
Then flames were everywhere
And the hooligans ran
And it all burned
It burned in the great tradition of all Wildwood legends
And then came trampolines
And then went trampolines
and now... Perhaps more trampolines (haunted ones)

Dante's Inferno

Blasting out of hell Dante prevailed
Three headed dragons not far behind
Abandom hope all ye who enter here
For there are plastic skeletons and scary drawings
Scenes of hell inspire fear and anticipation
But whereith have all thy props gone?
Dante's Dungeon? Bah! Humbug...

Castle Frankenstein

Damn, more haunted rides
Twus before me time
It appears as a relic of Amusement
But...

"Well now, everything dies, baby, thats a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in atlantic city"- Bruce Springsteen

More to come...

[clnancy50]

Your point? Is this a tribute or sarcasm?

[mclunatic4evr]

Yes

[robert]

Oh, yeah, Castle Frankenstein, I remember that. It had this huge Castle Frankenstein sign on the front and a huge Frankenstein statue. I believe it was the summer of 1982 when I saw it. Anthony has a more complete article about it with rare shots of the front. I guess I was too scared to go in it, I was only 8 y/o at the time. The Lost World ride on the same pier scared me enough, and the Crazy House funhouse was really wacky with the tilted room, slide and barrel. This summer in Canada I did the House of Frankenstein twice that was a great attraction. Also there's a Castle Dracula, too that was great. Also the Haunted House but no actors unlike the others. And the falls are really powerful. I guess I'll take any dark ride today good or bad in today's world of disappearing dark rides.

[clnancy50]

First of all----Yes, what?? And robert, have you ever gone into Ripley's Believe it or Not in Ocean City, Maryland? They have some REALLY wierd things in there; like illusions, I tunnel that looks like it's moving and you can hardly walk a straight line.

[mclunatic4evr]

There poems.

[clnancy50]

Sonates would probably be a better word.

[mclunatic4evr]

Great Dark Ride

Into doors of unknown does the little cart with visitors in it
Crickity crackity goes thou noise
And then terror is fairer
For at last do ghouls and ghosts serve their posts
And then terror grips one
The room is spinning, only not really
One panics, and tries to escape, and does
Into a horror world one runs
First off a totom poll of terror is in your way
And the emergency exits a man eating dragon
You run out the emergency door and you're in Hades
Satan slouches against his red 82' Camaro Z28
Their is a gift shop across the lake
But for now one must begin filling out forms

[clnancy50]

Uh, what must you fill out forms for? This sounds like "the -end-of-the-line dark ride; one, which I doubt I'll be on.

[mclunatic4evr]

One must fill out forms for the same reason a dog will walk in three circles before it sleeps, and that reason be tradition. And trampolines.

[mclunatic4evr]

The Exorcist Ride

To the best of me knowledge such a ride did exist
And I am awareith that a reenactment of the exorcism scene was played
Demons dance atop a young robots gaze
Act after act perfects action
Paints of boardwalk colors grab thou eye
Screams echo and beckon
The Exorcism failed
For it is not demon nor devil that possesses thee
But a Tasmanian Devil not much different from the cartoons

Jersey Junkyard

Oh what a Sh*t hole dark ride to leave Fun Pier with
Out of all the glory to pass thru the great piers
How could thou survive the likes of our times?
The time has come for dark rides
But not this one
Although the artwork is not bad on the outside
I liked Dark river more

[clnancy50]

"It is not so much what a man is descened from that matters as what he will descend to."