All Hollows Eve

Gravestones in the park
Scary place when its dark
Empty plots marked by string
Morbid figures trying to sing
Pretty flowers dead or trying
Grace the path on which their lying
Scripted rocks with glowing paints
Must not be read if hearts are faint

withered corpses dance around
acting like their little clowns
comical yet scary too
watching the dead say goodbye to you
creepy vermin upon the plot
waiting for the next corpse to drop

swirls of fog blocking view
keeps you wondering what corpses do
so entranced by the game they play
leaves you lost, yet afraid to say


digging shovels stand erect
positioned so as to protect
mounds of dirt piled 6ft high
to bury the corpses when they die
because wild wolves like tasty bones
and drag corpse souls far from home

so as we know and always will
unburied bones are never still

Halloween  Challenge Poetry Contest
Emile Pinet
11/02/2020
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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November 2, 2020 at 7:30 AM
Dark and spooky poem Lorraine..
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November 2, 2020 at 5:21 AM
Lorraine, this is great! Love it! Dark, morbid, nearly cute unless you are in their sights! ;) Fave!
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