Autumn Candy Poems

Black cats dart across my path
As I head down the street
Children hide and spook their friends
And all around shout “Trick or treat!”

It’s Halloween! It’s Halloween!...

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I want you to know
That I love you more 
Than all of my Octobers
Which is not to say
There are a lot of them
Even though there...

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What's left of the crumbs, leave it to me.
His cries tore my ailing eardrums, my skin as blue as the calm of country nights
Then I...

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January…new year, new me.
Met you and now I’m happy. 
We watched the ball drop and kissed at midnight.


My February Valentine
hearts and flowers because you’re mine
as...

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In the shifting air
the sweet scent of candy corn
candle wax burning

All doors are open
an ancient mystery lives
I bask in its glow...

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You have been on my mind
Since I saw you last night.
Lying there on the shelf,
So innocently.
Your orange wrappings
Caught my eye
And never let go.

I walked right...

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Mud casts no reflections in the nightmarish fog

There are ghosts in the corn fields after harvest

Resurrecting fear in the hearts of children

Masked apparitions, beggars of...

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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...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Witches hats,scary bats,freinkeins monster,wearing masks..Halloween is truly,the best time of year,cold autumn nights,knowing xmas is near..Wrapped up all warm,nearly bonfire night,knocking on doors,giving neighbours a...

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Streets awash with mewling cats
and surly swashbuckling pirates.
Somber skies with swirling bats,
and ghastly goblins chasing rats.

Wicked witches’ evil glare,
grisly ghouls' ghostly stare,
taunting with a double-dare.
All...

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Red maple tantalizing
eye candy for witnesses
to its voluptuous breast
openly bared all...

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Air is altering its pattern
Dusks are getting crispier
Nights are falling earlier
Sun is taking time to rise up

Leaves are changing their colors
Trees are showing off their...

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Altering air patterns
Crispier dusk tones
Nights’ earlier onsets
Sun’s late rises

Changing leaf colors
Trees’ fiery flairs 
Scattered acorns and pine needles
Halloween is around the corner

Ghosts and vampires 
Goblins,...

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Candy corn! Candy corn!
I want nothing else in my Halloween bag
but mounds of candy corn!
I could Trick or Treat all night
and then stay out until...

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