Best Costumes Poems
Shadow, shadow on the wall.
Merry monsters in the hall;
Ghostly goblins gently peek
At little children faking sleep.
The night is strange as low it roams
Around the snugly lighted homes.
The young ones feel its magic power;
The clock has struck the children’s hour!
Grabbing costumes from the pegs
Then down the stairs on little legs.
To children’s promised midnight feast,
As grownups fall for Trick or Treat.
Grinning faces laughing merry;
Crouching shadows dark and scary.
Late this night there are no dreams
For this night’s name is HALLOWEEN!
A mask to conceal
a costume to hide behind
A dozen laughs kill the pain
a couple drinks anesthetize
Any way it’s sliced or diced
a band-aid halts the blood
Though memory lurks in darkling queue
to ope all wounds anew
Halloween Costumes
When I grew up we were free to be anything.
But those days are over!
I can only dress as my dog, Rover??
If I dress ethnically, some may get offended.
We had innocent fun as kids and adults.
Today a costume may start a revolt.
Only people in power can wear such things,
Rule countries, what does this all mean?
That we are nothing?
I really don't comprehend all the fluster.
And so, my friends, this year,
I will be a jar of mustard!!!
October 24, 2019
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Ode to the Cats in costume
Cats in costume, you inspire me to write.
How I love the way you hiss, stare and walk,
Invading my mind day and through the night,
Always dreaming about the wicked chock.
Let me compare you to a black clover?
You are more scary, unreal and slender.
White storms whip the twiglets of October,
And autumntime has the vandevender.
How do I love you? Let me count the ways.
I love your cherry costumes, eyes and tail.
Thinking of your wary eyes fills my days.
My love for you is the tender entail.
Now I must away with a surreal heart,
Remember my light words whilst we're apart
ghosts and goblins
trick or treating
for bags of candy
and toffee apples on a stick
children roam streets
as costumed fairies
looking for sweet treats
to rot their teeth
scary pumpkins
carved with care
eerie sounds
while darkness falls
tiny tots hold parent’s hands tightly
as the streets fill up with characters
dressed from angels and devils
and everything in between
creaking doors
in dead of night
graveyards come to life
everyone knows it’s hallow’s eve
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
The emerging of wizards and ghosts
On a night of deep and frightening darkness
Children dressed in special costumes,hats and masks
With a Jack-o'-lantern in hands
Hoping to frighten the evil spirits away
Things with bad omens like black cats, bats and spiders
Are completely avoided
The number of 13 is also discarded
With the coincidence of Halloween
We may also drive away the ghosts in our hearts
Drive away the greed, jealousy and cowardness
Long embedded in our hearts
So that a place is forever reserved
For our Almighty God
halloween costumes
back home comparing our loot
before sweet dreams
AP: 3rd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2020
October 30, 2018
Well the shoppers are all out
Already in costume wandering about
Buying up candy and chocolate bars
Trick or treating under the stars
What will the costumes be this year?
Make us laugh and bring some cheer
Some of the yards will be quite frightening
And some will be most enlightening
Shedding some light on Halloween
And what it truly means
Witches, ghouls, goblins, and pumpkins too
Hope they don't put a spell on you
Honoring the dead in such a way
Bidding good-byes to them today
Is what they say it truly means
To go and celebrate Halloween
To honor death is somewhat strange
Maybe even a little deranged
Why do people truly celebrate this night?
Some think it's wrong and some think it's right!
Its that dark October night
When the dead come alive
Broomsticks ready to ride
Nowhere for you to hide
Fancy dress and party time
Cackling witches ready to dine
Dunking apples and games galore
Knock knock whos at the door
Frankenstein, Zombies, ghosts and dracula
Is it a trick? I hope that's not popular
Or simply a treat
something like a sweet
Are you gonna be brave
And cross the cemetry gate
Monsters lurk that late
Howls and screams echo loud
From the full moon hounds
Try your best not to flee
From ghouls of hallows eve
Or brave enough To squeek
The famous words trick or treat
COSTUMES
There are costumes in the world today called “Christianity,”
But will they hear Christ say to them some day, “Depart from Me”?
There are costumes of self-righteousness that many people wear,
Though God will say they’re filthy rags, they do not seem to care.
There’s costumes of the rituals some practice every day
Like repetitions that they utter every time they pray.
And what about a moral life, or Christian family?
So many wear that costume now so proud for all to see.
Ah, yes, there is that church so great they go to people meet
The costume of a hypocrite they wear there in that seat.
They tithe, they sing, they serve the Lord so often they will say
But if the costume were removed for all to see today,
It would embarrass them, perhaps, but I know I also find
Sometimes I’ve put those costumes on at just the perfect time.
I need the voice from Jesus then to use His word to say,
“Take off that costume that YOU wear, you can’t fool ME today!”
So, Jesus, I approach Your throne and ask You to forgive;
Take off the costumes I’ve put on by the way I sometimes live.
May the only thing that people see and never need to guess
That the only thing I’m wearing is Your holy righteousness!
Gypsy Fortune Teller costume revealed my most dazzling self
Wearing hot pink, silver, gold, purples, and flaming oranges.
Carrying a crystal ball, tarot cards and runes.
An elaborately embroidered shawl over my shoulders.
Enjoyed myself ever so much at the Octoberfest, reading palms.
My psychic self pranced forth, hugging my soul with delight.
Pirate Queen costume, reveals my hidden slashing self.
She looked so unassuming, they thought, until they saw me now.
My blousy sleeves set off my enormous black boots and eight inch belt.
I moved daringly, with aggressiveness I usually cannot muster.
The crowd cleared a way, seeing my determined purposeful pirate walk.
Sword and pistol attached to my side, I felt a confidence I rarely feel.
I growled at a few children and they laughed, because they knew me.
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark costume revealing more than I should have.
My sensual, sexual, excited to be me side, so I shared it only with my man.
Wearing it at home, in the bedroom where others rarely go.
He likes this one the best. Even better than my French maid costume.
Enough said.
Satin fog essences.
Narrow shadows in the side streets.
Azure complacencies and cotton pleasures.
Costumes of the naked need the tender touch.
Hollow furs finding velvet purrings.
Swallowing remembrances . . .
Of old houses and ferns and breakfast biscuits,
Of bacon grease and flat tires and torn calendars,
Reclining like open girls,
Wet with the fears of death and decay.
Satin fog essences.
Narrow shadows in the side streets.
Azure complacencies and cotton pleasures.
Costumes of the naked need the tender touch.
Costume
No fulgor
do domingo,
finda a visita
e o merecido
descanso,
agora,
Dona Dalva,
para a vida
abre o atalho.
Ela volta à cidade,
para bondade semear,
para com seus atos,
a vida de toda
a gente, melhorar.
Esperamos, Dona Dalva
Bem vinda.
Let’s make art deco Halloween costumes this year, she said.
What are they? I asked. I do not like spending a lot of extra time.
Do a little research, she suggested. You’ll figure it out.
The easiest costume I saw was probably for a flapper.
I put fringe around the bottom of a short straight nightie.
Fashioned a headdress out of a piece of dog leash braid.
I felt like Julie Andrews in the movie Thoroughly Modern Millie
Except she probably had not worn Sketchers, but what the heck.
HALLOWEEN
Halloween started as a Celtic celebration
But things have changed over the generations
People get dressed in costumes and walk the streets
Knocking on doors and asking everyone they meet
Just one question and that is “Trick or Treat?”
So, we give them lollies to avoid getting tricked
If nobody knocks upon my door
Then it is me that I bought the lollies for
And that is definitely alright by me for sure
October 31st is Halloween
How many lollies I eat remains to be seen.