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titter tatter pitter patter HalTitter Tatter Pitter Patter Happy Halloween Hal
Got his own jack-o-lantern thanks to a good pal.
What is that? Asked Sassy Sue, his current gal.
She made fun of the jack-o-lantern and his pal Hal.
Titter Tatter Pitter Patter...
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Categories:
halloween, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
conjuring a scarecrow goblinMare, a seasoned witch with the dark ebony hair
Said I will teach you a spell, to her cousin Cher.
Cher tossed her wand around in the air.
Scarecrow goblin appeared right in front of Mare.
I thought I...
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Categories:
halloween, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Leota wants to learn the Minnesota CharmLeota stacked her new books in a fabulous little pile.
She was thrilled with their freshness, it made her smile.
Finally at university, she could figure out the Minnesota charm.
It was reputed to invisible-ize people, so what...
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Categories:
halloween, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
why does she get two familiarswhy does she get two familiars? The other witches asked their Daddies.
They had no idea, but her parents did drive three brand new Caddies.
Perhaps they are on the take, criminals, one suggested with glee.
Poof, the...
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Categories:
halloween, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
When Autumn Comes
When autumn comes harvest moon glows
Leaves transform to crimson and gold
and the chill now withers the rose
When autumn comes
Leaves have fallen, a chill takes hold
As summer sleeps where leaves...
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Categories:
autumn, halloween,
Form: Roundel
Happy Halloween
Scared to tell Kamala that she can’t run
The donkey party’s ex-favorite son
Slick Willy will save the day
Push...
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Categories:
death, halloween, leadership, political,
Form: Limerick
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weatherI hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...
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Categories:
halloween, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Choosing A Genuine LeaderChoosing a genuine leader
Is a dauntingly difficult task
To constitutionally ask
Uninformed voters
To vote their conscience.
Such a practice defies science
And natural common sense.
That too many followers lack
And where criminals hack
The convoluted system
With a simple leaf
Of a fragile...
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Categories:
america, betrayal, fire, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
LILITHhe would have known or suspected
that smooth beauty he kissed so often,
had a different side that he did not reach,
scales that glistened in the darkest of nights,
under the lights of distant stars and galaxies,
her smile...
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Categories:
dark, fate, feelings, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Spring Sonnet
Spring Sonnet
The microscopic lifeforms in my soil
Sense the rising in degrees Celsius.
Old Summer’s red wiggler worms now uncoil,
While hungry birds look down most odious.
Most showers now done, the weeds envelope
The surviving herbs, flowers, plus veggies.
Like...
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Categories:
earth, food, garden, halloween,
Form: Sonnet
Seven Uninvited GuestsThe gathered, outside my house, lingered long,
As if it were Halloween night -
A rogue's gallery of goblins and ghouls,
They were an unwanted sight.
Their faces had a strange semblance of masks,
Looking like twisted versions of me.
Yet,...
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Categories:
confidence, dark, halloween, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Helzabob met Mister at the DoorHelzabob had her own ways of tweaking spells a tiny bit
She unleased some monstrous concoctions on her sister.
Helzabor created creatures who danced, twirled, and sometimes bit.
One time they went after a stuck-up guy who insisted...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Eerily Goes Nightwho then rings
thy solitary bell
whose voice cuts through
the mist
and lowly darkness
winter’s eve
there far off
screaming fox
when unseen eyes
then look upon
from trees that hide
in cloak
and footsteps
cast a moments chill
in nights a’slashing
throat
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Categories:
dark, fear, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Her IncantationCurly red-haired witch had incantations that flowed into the night
Her familiar, an owl, watched them float up and out of sight.
What are you trying for? Asked her cat, who was a sour puss really.
Not sure,...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Trick of Count BunnyULaHere is how I freak them out Count Bunny-u-la said.
I add cranberry juice, and tint my eyes an awful color of red.
They see me and they scream off their tiny little head.
Halloween is the night...
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Categories:
halloween, 10th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Specific Types of Halloween Poems
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