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Tricks Today

I wonder what the tricks are now For once, they used to be Some splattered eggs or toilet paper Draped around a tree. Another one was sidewalk chalk All crushed within a sock Which then was bashed against a stoop, Much to the owner’s shock. The treats are much the same these days, Though home-made ones are gone, Yet are there any people left To play those tricks upon? For candy-holding-backers Will pretend they aren’t there Or else the consequences might Be more than just a scare.

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Maurice Rigoler

Date: 11/1/2018 7:35:00 PM

I confess we boys did not bad things when treats were withheld – like waxing car windows, cutting clothes lines, and smashing pumkins on porch steps. Your comment on my poem about the last line being the first and the rest of the poem built on it is incorrect. The last line came like a flash after much thinking! / M

Ilene Bauer
Date: 11/1/2018 7:54:00 PM

Ha! I stand corrected! Sometimes I come up with a great ending line and build the poem around it, so that's what I thought you did. Thanks for the comment - your pranks sound worse than the ones I remember...

Chris Green

Date: 10/31/2018 4:56:00 PM

Things do change as years go by. It is not what I remember Halloween being but your poem sure does remind me of the good old days. : ) Really nice Ilene.