Free Verse Halloween Poems

I am the Voodoo Queen, draped in mystic skies,
Where moonlight whispers and shadows lie.
Beneath my veil, the arcane hums,
The pulse of the midnight, where the...

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Let's dance for the dead,
In beautiful nightmares, 
And together we create the most eccentric tragic story,
No one has foreseen,

Will you be my Vampire?
...

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Unsettling it was
came from where
I did not know,
the jagged claw upon 
my chamber floor

so near the cot
where I nightly lay,
have dreamed so snug
feeling quite secure,

sharpest...

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Born in the breath of woodsmoke and fire,
I learned early to love the art of falling.
Leaves tumble like poorly kept secrets,
trees strip down without shame...

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spring morning glory loudly shivers while in quiet vine

the army of pumpkins herald the winter to come

night creatures do not belong in the spring light

steals...

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A moon-lit day
End of Fall
The Sun an unseen presence
Far down south-west
Behind some silver cloud
Maples showering gold
On a lengthening walkway
Lovely as the Milky Way

A young couple...

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Halloween Confession

A Squirrel
Only Loves You
If You're
Nuts.

You 
Probably
Think I'm 
Kidding.

(I'm Not.)

-Gray Squirrel

10-31-2024
...

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Near our late year approach,  A Celtic feast and festivities, around a wood blaze Hoge. On the first of the eleventh month, wine and...

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Halloween is coming up. 
Halloween is just before-
When Christmas comes around.
When we put up decorations too early. 
Trees in the forest that are living and...

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The veil between the worlds grows thin,
A night for magic, ancient and grim,
When spirits wander, shadows grow bold,
And whispers of stories, ages old,
Echo through the...

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she felt his presence immediately
cloaked heavily, unseen and unfelt by others
she was an empath; he was clearly evil
the hair on her arms stood up

a gentle...

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Dreams come clearly as I lie in my bed,
thinking of the creatures alive below me.
I cautiously draw up the comforter edge.
Beneath the mattress,
beneath the sheets,
beneath...

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With twilight a few days away
Answers were revealed in strange places

Alignment of the planets
A chorus only I heard

A coven of 5 female clowns
Holding hands in...

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            one hemisphere lit
         of split...

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Sometimes I wonder
if I have made a career
out of Halloween -- dress-up
you know: the right garment
for the day -- the right creature
of face, and tone...

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