October's Finale

October’s Finale October sets the stage for ghostly goblins – frost on pumpkins; Black cats yowl on top of fences arching, upstage the moonlight; Floating apparitions of wraiths soliloquies in mid-flight fright; Full moons cast eerie – shadows lost in howling ghost light winds. Echoes of shame like bare skeleton bones, rattle in chains Specters of spirits roam through crumbling haunted castles Ghost trains run again then again, over broken gobo trestles Spooky whispers of forgotten lines in hair raising rains! A possessed chorus line of leering pumpkins faces night Tells a hair raising tale of a roaming headless horseman Breaking through fourth walls to ride in a spine tingling plan From the wings on a dark and stormy Halloween midnight Howling hounds wake vampires who escape from coffins – Hide from mirrors cloaked backstage with no reflection Bubbling cauldrons cook creepy spells upon prop inspections While spirits serenade in ad-lib on stringless mandolins. Brittle headstones speak in lines of green lichen slime Whispers blow out flickering lime lights of lantern candles Graveyards draped in flowing scenes of cobweb handles Heartbeats pound in monologues behind a scrim of fleeing time. Haunted theater creaks with unseen footsteps mystery - A playhouse podium for phantom encores - blocking bows - Until twelve bells closes shut this deathly stage door somehow - For November’s morning review that laughs at death’s lost victory. All Hallows Eve call time when spirit sightings seem to occur - Screeches of everlasting doom run rampant in audition - Find their final curtain ringing down on their perdition, Eternal life, the blessing seen, in the finale of October. 10-5-20 Contest: October Sponsor: Regina McIntosh