Life 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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said the older ghost to the younger ghost,
watch and learn from me how to scare the most,
just show up in open crowd,
bare ugly fangs and...

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"Wart you laughing at"

There once was a witch with a wart
Who liked to tell jokes and hold court
She had all the bats laughin'
Then the vamp...

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The autumn leaves fell gently to the ground.

Covering the body like a blanket.

It lay undisturbed that way.

Sometimes the eyes would flicker.

Sensing the surroundings.

Waiting.

The children gathered...

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I can still hear the echo of bells tolling its dirge.
As I sat on my rocking chair in the semi-darkness.  
Outside as if in...

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The Ghost denied
he was a Ghost,

though clearly
I saw through -- 

Someone I knew
in life, back then
quite pink, substantial
with lots 
and lots to do – 

tried...

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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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May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life
that have, for us, thus far accrued…
and to begin each day with a word...

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And I remember everything 
               I’d done that whole day long
It...

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“‘til death do us part” the vampire once said
 to his pallid bride, her throat blushing red.
 The guests grew squeamish at what they just...

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She was ensnared within her gardens,
Amid a tempest of roses,
Entangled in the mournful whispers of… 
Weeping willows,
From noon till night.

Within her bustling haven, 
the envy...

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It's Halloween night, and the spooks
Are out and roaming the streets but
Amanda and her friends decided to still
Go Trick-or-Treating, after the carnival
They didn't realize they...

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As I Rose From Purple Slumberland, My Heart Red Aflame

As I rose from purple slumberland, my heart red aflame
There within crackling old bones was an...

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With pumpkins big and small, yellow and gold,
Scattered all over the farm, they look the best,
Jack sits with the pumpkins carved into Jack-o-lantern mold.

Jack led...

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The room was in darkness
Save for the solitary shard of light
Shining directly onto that point on the wall
The blood had dried in long back
If the...

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