Son Halloween Poems

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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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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i.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse.
My wife and son lay silent, all tucked...

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Spookaroo where are you he yells while standing at the window 
his diaper is sagging and his witches hat is crooked and all askew

The ghostees...

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The world had gone mad, all the people had flipped
I glared at a window where blood and gore dripped
Folk wandered blindly, their eyes hanging out
And...

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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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Speed witch flew past us fast enough to break the speed of sound.
She would undoubtedly win every marathon and broom race around.
Was she on a...

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“Hello Pumpkin! You’re gourd-geous
in your striped orange number!” *

Just boo-tiful!

Witch is why, I want to take you to my home.”

“I’d rather patch things up here,”...

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There was an eerie feeling that represented a full moon.
Is it time? The skeleton asked his bunkmates, or is it too soon?
Sure, one replied. Let’s...

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The sun descends this cloudless night
A moon for howling, full and bright
A moon by which the bats take flight
And wolf-men and the undead bite

Stretchered in,...

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Witchy Witchy is so twitchy
Her colorful broom is also glitchy
They are a team
on Hallows mean

We see them flying high in the midnight sky
And the children...

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Fond memories of Halloween as a child,
and times spent with my own children 
have me feeling nostalgic today. 
I recall the excitement felt as the...

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at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School

As a Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got the brilliant idea 
for his sole son...

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Charming Ghost did not want to leave, so he stayed to play.
He got older and bigger and was alone at the end of each day.
His...

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She really wanted to see a ghost…ecstatically excited.
She heard this place had plenty, and a spooky atmosphere.
She’d have to pinch herself, ready to cheer…elated.
She’d spend...

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