Dad Halloween Poems

iv.
By Thanksgiving, their machinations no longer discreet,
Voices from the walls and vents, betrayed their deceit.
My family revealed as demons in flesh-and-blood guise,
Christmas Day was the...

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Damian Stood at the bottom of the 
Staircase and Yelled "come on Mallory 
Delilah we're waiting. Let's be About this."
This shopping time there was even...

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Date:  June  2045

Damali was in the mood to gain
Knowledge.  who better to learn
From?  Then the Major Maverick 
Master my favorite uncle....

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A boy is an undead
While a girl is a leatherhead 
Mom and dad find a severed head
The front yard is now flowing in red. 
What...

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Christmas has it's candy canes and chocolate Santa Claus doll
Easter with it's Peeps and jelly bird eggs can get a little dull
But do you recall...

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Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of...

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We roamed the village in our masks -
a store-bought 1960’s plastic with string.
To trick and treat for candy, our task.
The bagful, we’d try to eat...

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We’re on Fall break this week and Peter’s favorite aunt - Lita - is visiting. Lita’s a tall, slim woman (eek! A guess), in her...

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“Hello Pumpkin! You’re gourd-geous
in your striped orange number!” *

Just boo-tiful!

Witch is why, I want to take you to my home.”

“I’d rather patch things up here,”...

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We did not dress up for Halloween
In England, when I was of that age.
Movies revealed what fun it was;
the sheer joy in that, 
and other...

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

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Witchy Witchy is so twitchy
Her colorful broom is also glitchy
They are a team
on Hallows mean

We see them flying high in the midnight sky
And the children...

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There was something about her smile that said something is not right.
Or that I am a pigeon; or that I am not totally on task...

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A terrifying sheeted ghost came by and we pretended to be scared.
It was probably Wilbur, and he liked to think that we cared.
Next was a...

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Where can we go to find the creepiest scariest dungeon? She asked.
I had to get out my travel books and research; it was quite a...

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