Mother Halloween Poems

the wind blew in from the west, I felt it in my breast.
colder than the wind from the east, like a witch’s kiss.
Hallows Eve! A...

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The mother could not stop screaming after her daughter was snatched.
Her son ran to their spaceship and locked himself inside the hatch.
Father ran after daughter,...

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Lizella could not control the broom she inherited from her mother.
It had a mind of its own, wanting to do always “the other”.
If she said...

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Sheblanka had a way with a cauldron that was serious to see
She is a distant conjuring cousin to both my step Daddy and me
We watched...

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Goldilocks Troll and the Devil walked over a bridge on Halloween.
They met a sailor, a princess, a faerie, and an ugly witch’s queen.
None of them...

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lucky I be she said, mother of three
witches who will all admire me
she put them on her broom and flew them around
they loved it too,...

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Raisin just stared at the chaos ahead
A kitten, confused as she sat there in dread
The world has gone mad, all the people have flipped
She glared...

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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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Her mother had been dead a month now

This was her third visit to the grave

She had noticed the crows on her first visit

Sat at the...

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The picture 
She bends over the lace making table
Fingers swollen knuckles hard and round
Silent conversation hands to cotton, cotton to hand
Weaving and wefting
 Curling and...

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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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best Halloween was in 1962
I was a fairy with silver tinseled wings
felt angelic in virginal white shiny gown
aluminum foil wand looked fancy
I felt pretty maybe...

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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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1641 Main is the spookiest house ever we all said to each other.
I said it to my husband, my children, my nephew and my brother.
It’s...

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She was a lithe and lively flexible acrobatic cat.
She was doing exercises when her bench went splat. 
It’s a worn-out pumpkin, it was time, said...

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