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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
The Rumor of Tomato HeadWe had heard of tomato head, of course.
Many thought it was a rumor spread by a horse.
Black Beauty was particularly fond of such lies.
I watched tomato head approach and felt some surprise.
Tomato head took advantage...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Rhyme
too many beans on Halloweenebony crow gave a twirl and his face turned green
he transmogrified into the witch’s scariest queen
this was a surprise, even though it was Halloween
I did not dare tell even my closest friends what I had...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Monorhyme
no big surpriseThree chubby short stubby snorting gnomes came into the field.
They held a skeleton, a cauldron, and a jack-o-lantern from our yield.
Give that Jack back! I challenged the thief, who would not show me his eyes.
They...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Rhyme
staring into my witch's cauldronSoil with sabrino, boil with babinoes white
Fire of witches, fire with switches bright
I gaze into your depths, feeling amazingly light
Wondering what dish you will bring me tonight
Soil with sabrino, boil with babinoes red
Fire of the...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Rhyme
gray cat mother ghoulthe wind blew in from the west, I felt it in my breast.
colder than the wind from the east, like a witch’s kiss.
Hallows Eve! A jack-o-lantern lisped, it sounded like a hiss.
She is on her...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Four Seasons
Flowers start to bloom
As spring brings beauty
To the scenery with
Verdant meadows and hills
Fun days at beach
as summer brings heat
Longer days, a treat
Summer breeze, so sweet
Before leaves...
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Categories:
halloween, seasons,
Form: Free verse
familiar gives witch the eyeOctober vamp was practicing her drama
Reading a book given to her by her mama
Perfecting her laugh, her giggles and her cries.
Her black cat gave her a weary look by crossing his eyes....
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Valloween!Roses are red, goblins are green
Just like my buddy, Frankenstein
Well, it’s February fourteenth
And I don’t have a valentine
So let’s declare it Valloween
And now, my love, won’t you be mine?
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Categories:
halloween, humorous, romantic, valentines
Form: Rhyme
From the Catacomb
Oh no, Tokoloshe is coming for me.
I don’t want to die.
Oh, my God, I better flee.
I’ll hide behind the Suonoki tree.
The vicious predator won’t find me with his evil eye.
Oh no, Tokoloshe...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Villanelle
October Pumpkin in Lemon TownFaerie queen was debating about her metamorphous now
She wanted to be a butterfly, but could not figure out how
Just relax and let nature do what she does said an elf.
So she did, and ended up...
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Categories:
halloween, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Witch G BawingShe eats her lunch while precariously balancing herself on a line
None of us clearly know why, but she tells us it keeps her feeling fine.
Several ebony crows come by cawing, hemming, tooting and hawing.
But does...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Halloween Poems
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