Uplifting Halloween Poems

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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when it's a full moon
life is far from dull
in fact it's full
of bits and bites
especially when married
to the prince of darkness
    ...

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Today as Halloween draws near
I see scary, hideous masks and decorations.
Each one meant to scare a body and cause
most frightening, heart-stopping sensations

My mind takes me...

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My supervisor ambled by one day 
To tell me he was adding one more to my load:
A juvie no other counselor could reach.
What could I...

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YEAR’S END

The year’s end is near as we head to the next one. 
Already Halloween has come and gone 
and bonfire night is a warm...

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Given are we the name of the vampire, creatures of the forbidden,
Driven to live forever within the shadows, or die
Beneath a wooden steak, through our...

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Val was graduating from school,
Her grade point average was good-
Halloween night was her big debut, 
A difference she’d make, if she could! 

She liked to...

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it's magic!

A prestidigitator I know
graciously agreed to show me
how to make quarters vanish
for small children in costume
on Halloween night.

After insufficient practice 
the night came for...

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The White Pumpkin

A farmer tends his field
Vines grow and wrap around each other
Giant white flowers bloom in the heat of summer
Butterflies and bees dance from...

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White buffalo are sacred to Native American tribes
Symbols of hope and prosperity, to see one you are blessed
A cart filled with white pumpkins offers our...

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For just one, frigid, October evening,
The dead will dance without their baggage,
Abandoning ravenous, ebony pain
And any fleck of enduring scorn.

Succumbing to this ancient witchcraft,
The dead...

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