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Trick Or Treat

Careless stepping 
over the sole 
onto the tongue 
taking foothold

tingling the leg crawl

bravery perhaps
unwise direction
the venomous creep
dreadful little faces
with large vengeance
fire-ants the masks
their own

next one’s privates
the thought

covered and bare
we all have them
both – denial no 
protection

ring the ominous
and painfully dance, or flee
be called 
chicken of the season

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Curie Stark Date: 9/9/2023 1:01:00 AM Nostalgically beautiful Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/9/2023 7:08:00 AM Thank you, Curie; the old days -- when everything wasn't a sin irredeemable...and children had Safe Spaces to experiment and grow, mentally and spiritually. Blessings my friend.

Speaks Volumes Date: 9/8/2023 1:24:00 AM Do I laugh applaud or hand you the insect repellant? Good one Joe. We don't trick or treat here in Aussie land. No halloweening :( Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/8/2023 7:33:00 AM Tears actually would be appropriate. It's a once fun, creepy ritual really not practiced in the US anymore...no parent in his or her right mind would allow a child out ringing doorbells -- far too dangerous. Most people sleep with a baseball bat or gun at their bedside. That's how bad it has gotten.

Paulette Calasibetta Date: 9/7/2023 8:01:00 AM Trick or treat....your poem defines the season.....behind masks the little gremlins creep. Paulette Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/7/2023 10:27:00 AM Thank you so much Paulette -- did a lot of Trick Or Treating when I was a kid -- fun, safe back then. Blessings.

Tom Woody Date: 9/7/2023 6:40:00 AM Bawk bawk. I don't participate so I'm out Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/7/2023 10:28:00 AM We need our sane, practical members of the community also:) Blessings my friend.

Victor Buhagiar Date: 9/7/2023 5:52:00 AM Best of Halloween. The trick works perfectly. Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/7/2023 5:56:00 AM Hi Victor; thank you so much. Just some seasonal fun. Blessings my friend.

Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 9/7/2023 5:46:00 AM - No one wants to be the chicken of the season ... :) - Trick Or Treat - Put on the mask with large vengeance, Joe :))) - Love it :) - hugs Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/7/2023 5:52:00 AM Thank you, Lise; we are only an ocean apart -- love your poetry. Blessings my friend. Have a beautiful day. Keep writing. Yours is not the ordinary. Greatly gifted.