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12 October 2023
Contest : Spooky Halloween Sponsor: Tania Kitchin

Halloween Sidewalk borrows a little from

my upcoming poem

'Rum n Raisin 10 - Three Months Of Crazy'

as that poem was too long for the contest.

The world had gone mad, all the people had flipped I glared at a window where blood and gore dripped Folk wandered blindly, their eyes hanging out And bats big as rats seemed to flit all about Two nuns and a vicar with vampire fangs Lurked under the tree where a skeleton hangs A haggard old hunchback went lumbering by A rat riding high on the stake in his eye Green men with stitches and bolts through their necks Gargoyles enduring some terrible hex A madman was strutting the strut of the dead While clutching the arrow that’s right through his head A witch reached out for me and that’s when I fled I ran to my house and cried out, “They’re all dead!” The door opened wide and my dad’s hair was red “Look Son, I’ve got a big axe in my head.”

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 11/3/2023 4:55:00 PM

Ooh…running for safety and you find out you can’t go home! Congratulations on your scary write, Terry!

Terry Flood
Date: 11/3/2023 5:05:00 PM

Thanks, Kim. Appreciate your visit

Christina Bowring

Date: 11/2/2023 4:18:00 PM

Many congratulations on your first place win Terry! Hooray! Well deserved my friend. As soon as I read this delight, I knew it was a winner! Spooky but still got your great humour added to it as well! Well done! :):)

Terry Flood
Date: 11/2/2023 4:25:00 PM

Thanks, Christina. Chuffed with this win… I rarely do 16 lines : Ha ha!

Tania Kitchin

Date: 11/2/2023 3:50:00 PM

Terry, I enjoyed your spooky Halloween poem with a dash of humor, entertaining, congratulations on your first place win!

Terry Flood
Date: 11/2/2023 3:59:00 PM

Thanks, Kim. Appreciate the high placement.

Sam Kauffman

Date: 11/2/2023 11:28:00 AM

Hey Terry! Knew I was in for a Halloween treat, not a trick, when I saw your poem on the winners list!!! Was not disappointed! Wonderful, flowing rhymes and terrific, horrific images! Congrats and high fives for your win! Blessings and cheers! Time for ghosties and ghoulies to go back to bed for another year! Hope your dad recovered!

Terry Flood
Date: 11/2/2023 3:45:00 PM

Thankyou, Sam, glad you enjoyed. Your comments are very much appreciated. Terry

Beryl Edmonds

Date: 10/27/2023 2:14:00 PM

A horror story indeed, an incredible read…. Belle

Terry Flood
Date: 11/2/2023 3:46:00 PM

Thanks, Belle. ‘Incredible’ suits me ;-)

Christina Bowring

Date: 10/23/2023 2:17:00 PM

I love your style Terry - you are so clever! A great storyteller with an abundance of humour. Perfect! All your poems flow so well with great rhyming. So, so entertaining. This is such a fun Halloween read with so much in it - all aspects covered. The last two lines made me laugh. Well done! I’m thinking a daily dose of Terry’s poetry will keep the blues away :) I better start now… Good luck in the contest. :):)

Terry Flood
Date: 10/24/2023 3:09:00 PM

Thank you, Christina. One of my more restrained poems (word-count wise). Only a week to go and I can release it’s ‘parent poem’, hope it won’t be an anticlimax. ;-)

Gary Radice

Date: 10/15/2023 8:14:00 AM

This. Is. A. Scream. ..and reminds me of saturday nights where I live. Nice one Terry! Cheers - Gary

Terry Flood
Date: 10/24/2023 3:11:00 PM

Oh! THAT’S where you live! Ha Ha… glad you enjoyed, Gary.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/15/2023 1:38:00 AM

oh my you did an excellent job here , Terry.

Terry Flood
Date: 10/24/2023 3:13:00 PM

Thank you, Andrea. Sorry for my tardy reply… been struggling with a lengthy write, which I finally completed today. Glad you enjoyed. Terry

Gershon Wolf

Date: 10/12/2023 7:53:00 PM

Fantabulousmarvelisticincredibleostic creation, Terry. Pure hilarity. Thanks! ~ Gershon

Terry Flood
Date: 10/24/2023 3:16:00 PM

If you can find a perfect rhyme for that first word… you’ll win the donut! Always glad to give you a giggle, GW. ;-)

Sara Etgen-Baker

Date: 10/12/2023 3:27:00 PM

hilarious Halloween creation. I've I'd witnessed what you'd seen I would've run to my house too believing that the walking dead had taken over the earth or at least my neighborhood. smiles...and thanks for the humor, Sara

Terry Flood
Date: 10/12/2023 3:41:00 PM

Thanks, Sara. Hopefully, the original poem will still feel fresh when I set it free. Terry

Lin Lane

Date: 10/12/2023 8:52:00 AM

The world around us can go mad, Terry, in the insane manner, but if madness is responsible for your humor, stay insane!

Terry Flood
Date: 10/12/2023 3:36:00 PM

Thank you, Lin… I think! I decided to write ‘Rum n Raisin 10’ in honour of Halloween but finished it sooner than expected. I’m hoping to hang on to it til Halloween, but lines here and there seemed fitting for this contest. So I yanked them out, dumped the kittens (Awww!) and filled in the blanks. Glad you enjoyed. By the way… I haven’t been called ‘insane’ since I fell in that river in Paris.

Beryl Edmonds

Date: 10/11/2023 7:17:00 PM

On my word Terry, the poem is scary though hilarious, except of course the axe in dad’s head… Belle

Terry Flood
Date: 10/12/2023 8:23:00 AM

Thanks, Belle. The original poem made it clear that this was all faux gore… alas the contest has a line limit so I hoped I’d inferred that message in the final line. ;-)