Free Verse Halloween Poems

The Missing Ouija Board  
An Unholy Whodunnit in Verse  

I summoned ghosts at midnight’s glare,  
At Cemetery Gate—with snacks to spare. ...

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Calling the spirit to tell me a spell
I need to seek revenge
A spell for me

Take a piece wood
Carve a face
A silver chain
Wrap chain round and...

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It’s Christmas
But it feels like Halloween
What’s found and what’s lost
And what’s in between

It’s Christmas
But it feels like Halloween
“A love lost?!
But you’re only eighteen!”

It’s Christmas
But it...

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There were some witches I once knew
Reached out from their graves
To give me a kick
I ran and got some holly water
Poured it on to their...

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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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