Hope Halloween Poems

Ghosts glide on the highway to heaven in gay abandon
On Halloween’s starless night, in a limbo state they dance
From Purgatory they haunt with a vengeance...

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October is one of those months that begin to transition and change to prepare for winter.

As our days begin to shorten, this tenth month brings...

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Written: October 19, 2023, For Tania Kitchen Spooky Halloween Contest

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I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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Jarvis was a goner the second he saw her bouncy hair
She recognized this and reeled him right into her lair
Her amber eyes gave him the...

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There is a new villain 
New on the scene
Diabolical and willing
To be nasty mean green

She goes around stealing
Sleep hope good dreams
Makes nightmares chilling
Of Sandman's sweet...

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In autumn's graceful waltz of time,
Beauty and decay intertwine.
Where joy and sorrow blissfully dance
In grace, they move, a mesmerizing rhyme.

Leaves unfurl like a painter's dream,
A...

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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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All those movie characters
Crying in the shower
Definitely staged
But guess not
Short fits of panic
Fizzing in the steam
My lifelike dreams
Scare me
Waking up
Between dreams
To realize
You were never there...

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In the stillness,
The buried memories
Do crawl to haunt you 
Embers of guilt, burn you
Graves you built of your yesterday
Are Ghosts that taunt you.
Her fears danced...

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 Lyrical post, written to the tune of Don McClean's 'Vincent.' (aka 'Starry, Starry Night)


Horrid, Horrid night
Trick or Treating filled with dread
Fending off the living...

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A rustle here,
A rattle there,
A furtive footstep faintly falling on the stair,
And there's nobody rocking in that rocking chair.
Strange things are happening!

An eerie creak,
My knees...

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Evil scarecrow pumpkin head frightens on his ride.
Slightly insane, he causes even the pumpkins to hide.
I hope to never meet him, having heard his sordid...

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In the square of the town, is an old wooden clock
with a movement that only one time has been wound.
You can try to get answers,...

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She had a smile that lights up the ancient graveyard in a special way.
The roses in her hair have not been fresh since a decade...

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