Halloween Child Poems

Born in the breath of woodsmoke and fire,
I learned early to love the art of falling.
Leaves tumble like poorly kept secrets,
trees strip down without shame...

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Night Time Girl
It`s almost nine o`clock and it’s time to go to bed
So climb under your covers and rest your weary head,

Get yourself real comfy...

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Lollipops for good little boys and girls
melt like tricks onto rotting teeth;
Full of intense flavor and colored swirls;

Nightmares freeze into all that spun sugar,
cotton candy...

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Darkness. 
Eyes widen more and more,
trying in vain to see.
Then other senses compensate, 
I hear the faint rustle of dry leaves. 

My body caught in...

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Sit still in your chair, little one, and I'll tell the tale
of my true Halloween story and my sad travail.
I was a kid just like...

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fallen leaves
           whose veins etch the ground
        ...

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When I was a child, outside of Christmas,
Halloween was my favorite time of year.
I loved to make homemade costumes from old rags,
to wear trick-or-treating in...

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As I’m waiting for the bus for the first day of school,
I can’t help but notice how nervous you seem to be.
Don’t worry; the other...

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finding shapes in clouds
or four-leaf clovers in fields . . .
the child’s eye searches

What does it mean to view life through a child’s eyes? For...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of...

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Hello my gorgeous baby 
My beautiful wonderful Angel. 
I love you with all of my heart
and I'm sorry if this message is painful.
there are some...

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It is the middle of the night
My eyes open slowly
Fear strikes me in the moonlight
As I look at something unholy

It stands there staring at me
As...

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Brooding, unlit and unkempt
A house that is daylight exempt
Sits three doors down from the park
Its doors and its windows are dark

Weekly a grocer arrives
Drops off...

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The night was black, a yellow moon was gleaming;
In a nearby wood, night creatures were screaming.
My steps were quickened, eyes rounded in fright;
Such a misfortune...

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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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