Halloween Nostalgia Poems

She wandered about the peaceful eve
Not knowing what it was she sought
Pumpkins on porches, a few fallen leaves
Weren’t as welcome a sight as she thought

October...

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Orange blooms at dusk
goblins in the pumpkin patch
rich fall's come again

ghosts haunt dark cool nights
scarecrows wave in harvest fields
sad trees weep colors

devils on doorsteps
trick or...

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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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I took a walk on a summer day
Just wanting to get away
To where I spent my childhood years
Looked around and shed some tears
Dutch Hill Park...

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Whatever happened to breakfast, lamented French Toast
    People love me, gushing with syrup, I used to boast
  But now my brand...

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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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You have been on my mind
Since I saw you last night.
Lying there on the shelf,
So innocently.
Your orange wrappings
Caught my eye
And never let go.

I walked right...

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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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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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Its skeletal bones bare
Eyes still stare 
All that remains is the soul
A drift as a shadow lingers there
A bare bulb blares
sways absently silently 
in the...

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in the dark of night…
beneath my confidante the moon
thoughts in and out wander 
no constraints and unguarded 
my heart on display without fear

  ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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My Halloween Kitty (written 10/11/2020) free verse

I had a familiar named Callie
She was born on Halloween.

Feral siblings abandoned at my door.
I took the whole litter...

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When I was a kid Christmas shopping was from a catalog.
Store shopping started after Thanksgiving in the sixties
In the seventies I was too poor to...

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I waited for mid-November’s calm
that arrived last night,
a pause between storm systems
of Autumn wind and rain.

Today will be the day I recycle leaves,
a process much...

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