Halloween Senryu Poems

call upon the past
veil between two worlds dissolves
celebrate the dead...

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spooky spider legs
	waltz across a witch’s web ~
		creepy crawlies cringe...

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wicked woven words
	scattered on a Ouija board ~
		game of cagey crones...

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i hear the candy
no it’s the kids from far off
wearing out knockers

10/31/2022...

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Tragic Halloween
 
Through the streets of festive Seoul--


Ghosts replaced the youth!*






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     30 October 2022






* In Seoul, South Korea, thousands...

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Condensed atmosphere;
Grim old fashioned ghost stories,
they make your breath catch....

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october octave
seasonable spirit speaks
held by halloween

ghostly gibberish
a disembodied spirit
a spooky séance...

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Wee trick-or-treaters
scream at the sight of my face.
Should I wear a mask?


Not really sure "senryu" is the correct classification! Oh, well, . . . 

October...

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JANUARY
beginning of a new era
a failure of many resolutions 
and a Christmas fiasco

FEBRUARY 
deluge of rain 
in a short and wet month 
and lovers haven...

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ghost busters
driving into libraries
funny guys

ghost blasters
called upon by the mayor
great friends

ghost seekers
scared by green blobby things
screamers

ghost detectives
contacted by the fearful
brave but silly

ghost hunters
living Halloween daily
lucky...

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hallucinations
	vague personifications ~
		hallows dark dancing...

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dracula delight
ominous haunted house
october fun...

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Innocent pumpkin,
 sliced up and wearing a mask
that scars forever....

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September pregame 
warming the broomstick runway 
of October’s flight....

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Soft light plays on
my shameless, lipstick rouged
lips - it's a party.

I hear OverDoz
advocating a “last kiss”
somewhere in the night.

Some faces always 
find a favorable light
-...

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