hypnotizing Dracula was a cinch said my aunt Maude
It was a matter of getting him to leave his crypt in Claude
He came racing down the hill and I let the pendulum swing
He took one look and dropped like a light bulb on a string
I did not believe her, my aunt has a tendency to lie
Whenever she speaks it is probably not the truth said Cy.
I was shocked that he would say this about his own mother.
But nodding next to him in agreement was his big brother.
Baby Dracula stayed home to pass out the candy
We cannot divulge his real name; let’s call him Randy
He said giving to others felt wonderfully dandy.
Especially since his neighbor came by, a cutie named Sandy.
Count Dracula,
Quite spectacular
Woke at night
What a fright
Dracula cats were in the alley that night
they had died in the fifties, and were quite a sight
the rest of the felines were terrified of them
they are devil worshippers, said my cousin Clem
I had no idea if this was true or not
But they looked evil to me, said my Aunt Polka Dot
I got a bad vibe from them both and refused to come out
They paraded up and down the alley, dancing all about.
Sun glows
Garlic repels
Your tongue sharper than teeth
Daylight makes your brain recoil quick
Blood drips
Dracula polished his gravestone until it gleamed at midnight.
He visited the grocery store, but fit in with them all right
Other people were wearing costumes, it was Halloween
No one realized he was not, so he was not really seen.
He bought all kinds of goodies for trick-or-treaters and waited.
Inside the graveyard gates, this cannot be overstated.
No one came to trick-or-treat, people don’t go there at night often.
So Dracula took the treats back to his eagerly waiting coffin.
Dracula who made curtains was never done
He worked from sun to sun to sun to sun
He was at his machine night to night to night
His sewing was exquisite, but his brain was not on very tight.
Well hello, young count dracula
Don't just stand out there... come in
~ Play a round of Monopoly?
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Dracula would go on adventure
and loved to drink in local culture,
but he discovered, alas,
that strange food gave him gas,
not to mention one heck of an ulcer.
During a weekend in Cincinnati
he met some women who were quite chatty;
but their lewd and crude talking
was really quite shocking
and it simply drove him quite...batty.
In Bucharest, he became fascinated
by a vampire he later dated.
She was a Contessa
whose name was Vein-essa
and she liked her tea de-coffin-ated!
They would travel to museums and shows
and especially enjoy art nouveau;
but they most liked to spend
leisure time with a friend:
the vampire artist Vincent Vein Gogh.
The doorbell rang in the dead of night
It was Dracula in the dim light,
Too tall for trick or treating
What have you been eating!
Here take my wife
Just being polite
Barnabas Dracula Kitty
Barnabas darts deep in my closet each dawn
I go feed him at sunset but poof he’s gone
On Halloween night
I spot Barny in flight
His sharp fangs and black cape greeting kids on the lawn
he stayed in the shadows watching, waiting
she was a virgin with a beautiful alabaster neck
he could hardly wait to sink his teeth in it
a hoot owl made a bit of noise
he frowned at it, hoping to intimidate
a lone wolf howled in the distance
would she stir?
he looked into her window
her head was still on the bed
was tonight the night?
he heard two women giggling
they were walking incredibly close
he would start with them
he needed a bit of a snack
Count Dracula was terrifying until the seventies
When Sesame Street and Jim Henson turned him into a puppet
Gave him an intense love for math
And made him cuddly and adorable
Now when I hear Count Dracula I no longer think of Boris Karloff
Or Vincent Price or Alfred Hitchcock or the Twilight Zone
I think of math, which is not my favorite subject,
But I am no longer terrified or afraid in any way.
Bat's fang ditches, vampiric disease needs stitches,
as carmine blood seeps, forever now she sleeps
Carriage drawn by four black steeds
Zombie coachman no blood to bleed
He is employed by Dracula
Who calls him fondly Tarantula.
Tonight he's on deadly mission
His masters suffering malnutrition
With fangs that ache, desperate for blood
He's practised in art of courtly love.
Tarantula picked up Dracula's date
Dressed to the nines her fate awaits
Beautiful woman if only she knew
Vampires entice and then subdue.
Charming Count's enigmatic smile
Teeth so white he does beguile
Taking her hand at table they sit
He really has most invasive wit.
Weaving his spell she quickly falls under
Satisfied Count made fatal blunder
He turned her into creature of night
She now bedevils him, wanting a bite.
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