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Haunting Nights

Streets awash with mewling cats and surly swashbuckling pirates. Somber skies with swirling bats, and ghastly goblins chasing rats. Wicked witches’ evil glare, grisly ghouls' ghostly stare, taunting with a double-dare. All in fun to give a scare. Haunted houses with darkened walls; afraid to walk spell-bound halls. Toffee apples, popcorn balls; eating brains and toad eyeballs. Trick-or-treating door-to-door. Treats too tasty to ignore. Harmless tricks more smile than roar, kept us giggling for much more. Parents, neighbors joined the fun. Scary ghost stories spookily spun. Fortune tellers’ crystal balls to shun. Homemade costumes unique to one. Creamy fudge and devil’s food cake, all wrapped up for us to take. Mom's scratch treats, nothing fake. She took all day long to bake. Bewitching hour over, fun now done, to our homes we’d quickly run. Goodie bags that weighed a ton. We would share with everyone. Playing games and laughing out loud, good times again next year we vowed!

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 10/7/2020 8:45:00 PM

So many wonderful lines! Those treats sound yummy! You’re a fantastic writer!

Linda Alice Fowler
Date: 10/8/2020 5:45:00 AM

Oh Kim. You say the nicest things! Thanks! I think I'll bake today. ;) Linda

Susan Ashley

Date: 10/7/2020 12:19:00 PM

My imagination and heart were captured in your fun, fantastic poem Halloween poem, Linda. An exceptional rhyme with just the right balance of tricks and treats. A piece that brings back many great memories of how it once was. Warmest wishes.. ~Susan

Linda Alice Fowler
Date: 10/7/2020 12:31:00 PM

Hi Susan. I'm so glad this poem sang to you. I really got hungry as I was writing it. :) Remember all the wonderful homemade treats all the moms would create. Yum! Many thanks for the nice compliments, Linda

Rico Leffanta

Date: 10/7/2020 11:42:00 AM

And then along came Trump! Aloha! Rico

Linda Alice Fowler
Date: 10/7/2020 12:10:00 PM

Then came candy companies, cheap imported costumes, and transient families :) Aloha, Linda

Jenna Logan

Date: 10/7/2020 11:34:00 AM

You've captured every aspect of the night, Linda. Now, to feast on the booty.

Linda Alice Fowler
Date: 10/7/2020 11:36:00 AM

I hope you get lots and lots of chocolate this year Jenna ;) Thanks, Linda

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 10/7/2020 11:09:00 AM

- When I was a child no one had heard of Halloween in Norway :) - A wonderful and entertaining poem, Linda :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Linda Alice Fowler
Date: 10/7/2020 11:26:00 AM

Aww, Anne-Lise. A piece of Americana (and others) you've missed. I hope you've since remedied that! Our neighborhoods were typically very family-oriented and each looked out for the other. Linda

Gershon Wolf

Date: 10/7/2020 10:50:00 AM

Thanks for the memories. I remember actually being pretty scared on Halloween. There were some pretty ghoulish teenagers out there back then, bent on intimidating the younger kids. Happy Halloween, Linda! ~ gw

Linda Alice Fowler
Date: 10/7/2020 11:23:00 AM

Ah, the big kids in our neighborhood were too busy looking out for younger siblings. I'm not sure what they did once we younger ones had to go home...I wonder? Thanks gw, laf

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 10/7/2020 10:50:00 AM

Lovely Halloween poem. It began ghastly enough but soon turn to pure fun. ~~

Linda Alice Fowler
Date: 10/7/2020 11:21:00 AM

A little dark, a little light - it all balances out in the end. ;) Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! Linda