Glowing jack-o’-lanterns
Greet me by the door
Orange faces grinning
Or grimacing in horror
Night perches like a raven
Upon a twisted tree
While on the moaning autumn wind
Withered leaves fly free
Little ghoulies wander
Up and down the streets
Armed with brooms and pitchforks
Seeking tricks and treats
The air is filled with something
More than scents and sounds
Fresh-carved pumpkins, crumbling leaves
And children’s laughs abound
Black cats slick as shadows
Darting here and there
Growls and groans arising
From some creepy lair
The colors of the sky
As the day fades into dusk
Are the same as those of candy corn
Within a giant husk
A witch I am again this year
But the best I’ve ever been
Is the child that I am inside
Who still loves Halloween.
Categories:
ghoulies, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
About one Halloween is this a cautionary tale
Whose trickery or treatery many now have cause to bewail
Where vampires on blood just enjoy feasting
But alien abduction really takes some beating
UFOs descending in form sinister and diabolical
Swooped swiftly to snatch youngsters so bucolical
And left behind many a panic- paralyzed pallid clone
Whom their parents would have just wished to disown.
So let this message to parents ring out loud and clear
There's more than ghosties and ghoulies for kids to fear.
Categories:
ghoulies, humor,
Form: Rhyme
3 Senryu and a few Limericks
an eerie shadow
a hand touches my shoulder
....a double parked broom
shrieks in the graveyard
skeletons in the moonlight
.....a timpani of old bones
arched backs and Mohawks
claw marks and a hissy fit
......broom stick rumble seat
The Corona virus mask
creates a Halloween task
how to eat candy
even when handy
the same problem exists for dad's flask
The witches and ghoulies are running late
rushing with potions to seal our fate
if it gets much sicker
I'll just use the clicker
and move to a colorless state
John G. Lawless
10/9/2020
Categories:
ghoulies, halloween,
Form: Senryu
A witch flits and twists through the indigo mist.
A bright orange bracelet illumines her wrist.
I see through the gloom she’s not riding a broom.
Her oversized black pointy hat sports a plume.
The shadows reveal other ghoulies. All squeal
in unison “TRICK OR TREAT!” I seal the deal
by giving them goodies with great kid-appeal.
Note for Tania's Contest:
The first line was chosen from a list for the previous contest. Maintaining the meter--one iambic foot and three anapestic feet per line--was a challenge, but I didn't allow it to prevent me from conveying my intended theme.
Date: September 13, 2019
Contest Title: Welcome to My Random World received NA
Date: October 1, 2019
Contest Title: Best Poem That's Trophy Worthy, Premiere Contest 2
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Categories:
ghoulies, children, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Watch out kiddies
Here they come
If you don't like ghoulies
You'd better run
They're creeping out
From under the bed
From out of the closet
And under the spread
They're making these weird
And unearthly squeals
I'm not even sure
These ghoulies aren't real
Mom says they surely
Are all in my head
But feel this bumping
Under my bed
Can't pull up the covers
They're under there too
I just saw one
Wearing my shoes
Shrieking and squealing
These scary sounds
I couldn't move
They're all around!
Then a strange little fellow
Wearing my shoes
Started dancing and singing
Bout stuff in the zoo
I started to giggle
At this comical sight
Forgot about how
I was rigid with fright
The song he was singing
Was a happy refrain
No longer frightened
Started giggling again
I enjoyed his antics
As he danced around
Swaying back and forth
With these cheerful sounds
A feeling of drowsiness
Crept over me soon
Could see out my window
The big yellow moon
My fears disappeared
And I drifted to sleep
As a bunch of ghoulies
Started tickling my feet
Categories:
ghoulies, scary,
Form: Quatrain
Then comes the call of the witch named Kabbath,
That signals the start of All Hollow's Black Sabbath.
And, from the dark crypts and the blackest of holes;
Come the night creatures, as the Midnight Bell Tolls
Come Goblins and ghoulies, black creatures all hassled.
Come the fiends of the night that haunt the High Castle.
To the cemetery fields where the undead lay waiting
For the black orgy to begin their unholy mating.
Witches, black sorcerers, and warlocks all
Dance to the wind at this black magic ball.
Their music the cry of ten million lost souls;
All hither they come as the Midnight Bell Tolls.
All gathered at last, at this darkest of hours.
To wait for the sign of Satan's great power.
That'll send them in search all over the world,
To capture the souls of ye boys and ye girls.
So, let this be a warning this Halloween night
And pay heed to thy parents, they know what is right.
Though you search for sweet treats, wherever you stroll.
Be safe in your beds, when the Midnight Bell Tolls.
Categories:
ghoulies, halloween, october, scary, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
So precious are wee trick or treaters,
much-loved by us generous greeters.
With sacks overflowing
and bright faces glowing,
they are grateful, sweet candy-eaters.
Then droves of six-footers come brawling
For buckets of candy they're calling.
In fake kiddie voices,
they make clear the choices:
I treat or they'll trick. So appalling!
"No treat" starts the six-footers scheming.
Those ghosties and ghoulies start screaming.
My pumpkins they're smashing.
Through fences they're crashing.
By midnight the Charmin is streaming.
October 14, 2018
Categories:
ghoulies, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Bring Out Your Dead
One by one the dead shall rise
And the burning fires within their eyes,
Shall show their hatred for humanity.
Their deaths have taken away their sanity.
They will hunt us down and take our lives,
Down to their living Hell of screams and fire.
Torture, pain and no way out.
Welcome to Hell. You shall fulfill Satan’s desires.
One by one the people burn,
Or have their bodies buried underground.
But from the ashes of the dead,
The phoenix shall rise once again.
But fear the phoenix, for what it brings with it,
The zombies and ghosts and all sorts of ghoulies.
The land of the dead, was once full of life,
Now the life has been drained away,
By the Hell that is fire.
(C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
Categories:
ghoulies, crazy, death, fire, hate,
Form: I do not know?
~Halloween Night Is Here~
(Free Verse)
Halloween night is coming soon
Halloween is drawing so very near
Witches from everywhere fly to the moon
Spookies faces in this night they all wear
Mist from every cementery start to rise
Ghosts,ghoulies and goblins slowly creep
With your head you'll pay the price
If you stay out, late at night from your sleep
The sky of sudden turns around you all inky-black
And a full-moon rises and sparks in the dark
You're in trouble and filled of so much fear
You better run home very fast before is too late.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2005
October.23.2015
Categories:
ghoulies, dark, evil, halloween, scary,
Form: Free verse
Halloween is coming soon
Halloween is drawing so very near
Witches from everywhere fly to the moon
Spookies faces in this night they all wear.
Mist from every cementery start to rise
Ghosts,ghoulies and goblins slowly creep
With your head you'll pay the price
If you stay out late from your sleep.
The sky of sudden turns around you all inky-black
And a full-moon rises and sparks in the dark
You're in trouble and filled of so much fear
You better run home very fast before is too late!
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
October,31,2014
Categories:
ghoulies, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Hallowed specters fill the air;
goblins and ghoulies have no cares.
Hidden in the darkest night;
creatures scramble with delight.
Glowing eyes and mournful howls;
leave behind the hootie owls.
Specters swirling with delight;
flit too and fro beneath street lights.
The haul they take upon this eve;
confections that are sure to please.
If you should fail to bring delight;
you will be tricked upon this night.
No exemptions will be given;
lest you’ve rolled a lucky 7.
The game of Halloween has rules;
watch and beware those nasty ghouls.
Your generosity sets you free;
evil creatures, you won’t see.
Just children in their costumes bright;
Neath the glowing moon’s bright light.
Upon this night, you must make haste;
there is no moment you can waste.
Don’t forget the Jack-o-lantern;
it frightens nearly every phantom.
Categories:
ghoulies, halloween, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Watch out kiddies
Here they come
If you don't like ghoulies
You'd better run
They're creeping out
From under the bed
From out of the closet
And under the spread
They're making these weird
And unearthly squeals
I'm not even sure
These ghoulies aren't real
Mom says they surely
Are all in my head
I can feel this bumping
Under my bed
Can't pull up the covers
They're under there too
I just saw one
Wearing my shoes
Shrieking and squealing
These scary sounds
I couldn't move
They're all around!
Then a strange little fellow
Wearing my shoes
Started dancing and singing
Bout stuff in the zoo
I started to giggle
At this comical sight
Forgot about how
I was rigid with fright
The song he was singing
Was a happy refrain
No longer frightened
Started giggling again
I enjoyed his antics
As he danced around
Swaying back and forth
With these cheerful sounds
A feeling of drowsiness
Crept over me soon
Could see out my window
The big yellow moon
My fears disappeared
And I drifted to sleep
As a bunch of ghoulies
Started tickling my feet
© Jack Ellison 2012
Categories:
ghoulies, childhood, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
The horror movies on the T.V. screen
are my favourite aspect of Halloween.
Ghosts and ghoulies by the score.
Look out ! Don't open that door !
Jamie Lee is still my favourite scream-queen.
There's a Stephen King movie every night.
He's always good for a delightful fright.
We all love to be scared
so you'd best be prepared.
By November you'll sleep with a night light.
Categories:
ghoulies, funny, holiday,
Form: Limerick
Zombies really creep me out
Those hollow eyes so whack
But I know how to chill them out
Just toss 'em weed and smack.
Witches do not bother me
A bet I'd surely take
That somewhere in my family tree
A few burned at the stake.
Ghosts and ghoulies no prob there
They make me think of Casper
Frankensteinish dudes, no way
I know I can run faster.
I've never met a vampire
I eat way too much garlic
Most monsters do not have a chance
To mess with my harmonic.
Exception doth the rule make
This one will make me run
When the bats in the attic shake up
Closet skeletons!
Categories:
ghoulies, adventure, me, me,
Form: Light Verse