Halloween Quintain (English) Poems

Crisp and chilly air pumpkins of the month
Greet the varied Halloween
No weird but a feast day on the soul's hunt
Celebrating the soul's kin
Autumnal dew smoke...

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Whispers tale of witches on festive October,
Mother's ninety first birthday and daughter in-law.
Our 20th Wedding anniversary and sober.
Halloween dressed as Ed Gein with a chain...

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The parties Gina plans for Halloween,
just for adults, are always a success.
The games aren’t evil, raunchy, or obscene,
just entertaining. Plus, guests get to dress
in costumes....

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Revelers wear masks without complaint
On Halloween, which makes me wonder
Why we find it hard to practice restraint,
     Commonsense and friendships we...

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Winter came with its usual cold, rain, ice, snow, and pain.  By late Winter          ...

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Autumn hosts a carnival of color
celebrating the bounty of summer.
But Jack Frost, Autumn's gentlemen caller,
oft dances to a different drummer
endorsing winter as the newcomer.

A phantasmagorical...

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Volcanic, rustic, crackling leaves
bright coral sunset, gifts last light
obscure darkness, daylight thieves
deep pockets prevent frostbite,
singed gooey marshmallow delights.

Ghost stories relayed by torchlight
joyful, flustered, silly faces
elated...

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Colourful carmine leaves tardily float down, 
One by one like a russet rain, 
Tall tanned trees wearing a gossamer gown, 
Sighing let go of the...

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Autumn's Aria

As crisp chill usurps the summer air
Autumn flirts with every colored tree
Coaxing with musical wind so fair...
Fall leaves dance to death quite willingly,
Spin in...

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The leaves are falling, falling, enriching
cool of fall season. Shades of fiery red,
yellow, gold, emitting light; bewitching
green summer leaves. Wondrous mystical bed
a time of windblown...

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When leaves are raining from the trees,
to make a colourful carpet on the ground;  
the smell of woodsmoke's on the breeze;
with leaf-shuffling children a...

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On Halloween morning they came,
  cawing and screeching in the trees.
A thousand or more noisy blackbirds
  flew in a group of one hundred...

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It's halloween, alas, behold
Two long hours out in the foreboding cold
Out on the streets now being patrolled
By pirates and ghosts alike

Us children, we leap from...

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On the top of a large hill
Fear envelopes, hate carries on
Ghosts play and have a thrill
They live it up on the lawn
People avoid this place...

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Pull out the blanket to embrace the chill
Time to wear colorful pull-overs again
Love the most the nicely ice covered hill
Blooming gardens with varieties of grain
Trying...

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