Halloween Character Poems

The grey crows light cavern, wailing in web tavern
as lemurs juice pattern, sky from earth to Saturn....

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There once was a man with a head
Like a pumpkin it was, and called Fred
How they laughed in the Spring
At the pumpkin head thing
Oh the...

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There is a new villain 
New on the scene
Diabolical and willing
To be nasty mean green

She goes around stealing
Sleep hope good dreams
Makes nightmares chilling
Of Sandman's sweet...

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Glowing bright ball of light
More like golf ball in the night
Full moon inspires teal tide
And good witch's broom ride

I like the good witch who 
Gives...

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Television triptych throwback

and despite remote chance 
to channel small medium at large
metamorphosis I may witness 
analogous to caterpillar
will transform me into a butterfly
otherwise Norwegian bachelor...

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In a place many others often dread
Near the hollowed trees, and the haunted seas
She glides along the tumbledown cemetery
Deep down knowing those who are no...

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Sinister voices heard...

and ethereal disembodied spirits seen
from the other side of the woods
said phantasmagorical sound and sight
particularly experienced every Halloween.

Though dog tired
ready for the nocturnal...

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at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School

As a Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got the brilliant idea 
for his sole son...

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There are two famous politicians who hold the stage,
they should be in this year New York's Halloween Parade
to attract huge crowds: they are stuttering Biden...

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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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Despite pandemic, let’s have hearty treat
Sharing bounty of delicacies’ sweet
But wait, good food, we must pick
Since wellness is not a trick…
Thanking* the Lord for healthy...

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Soft, pretty kitty
Both gentle and tranquil
Soothes the heart who gives it
A chance to show its true worth

Soft, pretty kitty
Beckoning to the heart
With graceful paws and...

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Drac, Wolf, Frank, and Claude

Bela to Lon, doubtless psychosis,
Karloff insert he needs hypnosis,
those three murmured on,
awe night till scared dawn,
Rain unseen flights for diagnosis.

2020 October...

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Beside midnight's minting bare branches
   Dead fingered messages on bedroom pane scratches 
          ...

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Anomalous poetic contrivance evokes...
googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum

(alternately titled:
Random screenshot within me noggin
instantaneously transforming, 
née devolving into gobbledygook.)

I got born with poker faced...

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