The Spooks Family Halloween Party

It was quite a party at the old Spooks house,
to a spooktactular Samba they bobbed and bounced.
with skeletons banging their big ox-bone drums,
and the pumpkins all sang as the witches hummed.

Black cats did dine on tuna eyeball stew;
wicked Wilma brought her green bat-wing brew.
In the attic was held a wondrous broom race
and out back was a terrifying zombie maze.

Pirates and scarecrows arrived well dressed;
judges couldn’t decide whose costume was best.
Pumpkin ghouls climbed and played in the trees;
giant spiders spun silk and swung there with ease.

Greedy young goblins stuffed pockets with snacks
as children came by trick-or-treating with sacks.
The ghosts did a tango beneath a bright moon
and everyone knew it would all end too soon.

Just as the moon bid them all nighty-nite,
the sun it ascended giving vampires a fright.
Home they all flew to their dark coffin beds
‘cause you know, sunlight’s fatal to the undead.

Then the party disbanded with bellies all full
as among eerie nimbus pranced Taurus the bull.
Wilma flew off to the Witches Head nebula;
a scarecrow hitched a ride on the broom of Bella.

As little Spooks bedded down for the day,
hungry skeletons finished off the pumpkin flambé.
The bats all fluttered to their bat boxes, high
as grandpa Spook waved saying, “Next year, black tie!”

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020



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Date: 11/3/2021 7:40:00 PM
BOO!!! Such a hard poem to write. Would have liked to be there! I need the recipe for pumpkin flambe. :-)
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Date: 10/25/2020 5:47:00 PM
I agree with Jennifer. This really is POTD quality all the way. Perhaps it will be POTW! A FAVE for me, for sure! :) gw
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M. L. Kiser
Date: 10/29/2020 5:01:00 PM
Thanks so much, Gershon.
Date: 10/25/2020 9:32:00 AM
This I think will get POTD - extraordinarily beautiful and scary - very well penned my friend. Hugs and blessings, Jennifer.
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M. L. Kiser
Date: 10/29/2020 5:01:00 PM
Thank you Jennifer.
Date: 10/25/2020 9:20:00 AM
This is so prance-y and dance-y, she went straight to my fave list.
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M. L. Kiser
Date: 10/29/2020 5:02:00 PM
Tee-Hee, I'll bet you did a little dance to it, too.
Date: 10/21/2020 1:34:00 PM
Well done, but 2021 must be a great year to warrant black tie! Aloha! Rico
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M. L. Kiser
Date: 10/23/2020 10:54:00 AM
Even the ugliest ghouls and goblins want to look good at a party...teehee. Thanks.
Date: 10/21/2020 6:38:00 AM
Great storytelling..
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M. L. Kiser
Date: 10/23/2020 10:55:00 AM
Thanks so much.
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