Halloween Ballad Poems

We were small, innocence written all over..
Pulling plaits, dreaming of a new rover.
Crossed paths..when I picked my nose,
While you processed your identity of rose.
She lodged...

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Just give me a frozen river
So I could skate away
Then give me a minute more
Tell you how I feel today

I live here in a verdant...

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It was Hallowe’en all saints night then
When the spirits were about to frighten
And we dressed to scare right to the end
Walking the neighbourhood with friends

It...

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When the Autumn sun warms dying stalks
Of corn with unkempt tassel locks.
The earth turns from green to brown,
Candy corn comes to town.

A cackling witch stokes...

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Strobe lightning flashes
when midnight strikes home
Blades of grass whistling
signals the brutal winter wind
that follows harshly
Shady shallow creatures
crawl out of their shells of unfinished business
Growls of...

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THE CHENNAI FLOODS - SECOND PART


No food nor drinking water, those alive, pity
Faced chillness, starvation and panic in eyes
No medicines, no blankets and no clothes...

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THE CHENNAI FLOODS - FIRST PART

Firstly the rains came calling cool
It instantly brought hope and happiness
For people relished the Celsius dip down
And hoped for reservoirs...

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"Winter season"

Halloween and bonfire night have been and gone,
And Christmas is around the corner
The frost and snow still to come
And we will all be wishing...

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It Slithered
By Linda Hays-Gibbs

Darkness caressed it. I heard it before 
I saw a piece of it, a bit?
Black & shinny
But so, so cold
It froze the...

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It Made No Sense at All


She lived out on the highlands green
At the edge of the wide, wide bay;
She played all year at Halloween,
They came...

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‘Twas the Night before the day of Halloween’s Eve
The air was cold and the wind was mean
And on it traveled the fairest soliloquy
Betwixt Good and...

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Upon this night I worrie about this sight
It is to dare be in fright
All the thing will be among the souls to tell run from...

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ghouls from the grave do creep,
an pumpkins pretending to be sheep,
don't come near the misletoe,
cos death it waits just down below,
nuff 2 give ya the...

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Silver moonbeams shine from the full moon 
On a Halloween night.
Trick or treaters weave back and forth collecting candy
And other assorted goodies on this 
Beautiful...

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The child I was, so long ago
Knew not of Halloween.
The sweet treats that are now bestowed
By me were never seen.

The preacher at our church denounced
Halloween...

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