Darkley, Co.Armagh

Three decades past
WAs I exacting Doreen Birch
Whose innocence (a captious word)
Was wreathed
In smiles at party-time
Before the glozing weight of ease
Distilled the temperate heat of blood?

Guns tick away
As august clocks
(Tolerances widening by the hour
Thin as the innocence of Hallowe'en
Strike with irregularity
Uncertain of what day is is
They mirror all, all
They are become

Who ceased kissing
By the apple tree
In olive groves?

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poem by Paul HADFIELD
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Happy Halloween!

Halloween is said to be very scary
But Mark was dressed as a fairy
He looked so gay
Words cannot say
So beautiful he pranced through the prarie

poem by Alex Giebner
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Pay Day

Pay Day is money or candy.
It tastes good or it does not.
Money has germs but candy is sweet.
I perfer money the most.
But Halloween is coming up.

poem by Mellissa James
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Dark Faery on Halloween

I clothe myself in darkness
I picked blackness for its starkness
And many a spidery metaphor
Being mysterious isn't a chore
When I embody night

The only color is my face
Flaming billows of hair keeping pace
With screams and whispers calling ''scary''
Watch your back, do be wary
I can give a fright

Expression is everything
Making scary spirit sing
With a stare cold as space
Freezing you into your place
Turn out the light

Halloween, the holiday
Of things that scream and things that play

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poem by Phoenix Rory
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This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

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A Halloween Lover's Tale

Haunted by him
A beast of a man with a rotting tongue to kiss and a touch as cold as the grave
Left with no choice each Halloween I must surrender to his most unnatural of carnal desires
Lower myself into a vat of flesh eating worms and die all over again
Over and over again
Wicked fate has decreed this be the wedding night we dead live through at least once every Halloween
Evil groom with an ax to grind into his lying bride whose secret lover she never met that night
No mercy and no rest for two wicked souls rotting together forever more in unholy matrimony

2008 Ramona Thompson

poem by Ramona Thompson
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Halloween.

Halloween
Eyes of green
Shine in the dark.
Swinging lights
And vampire bites.
What hides in the park?

The 31st
Expect the worst.
Broomsticks on high.
Banshees wail
Under moon so pale
As ghouls float by.

At witching hour
The blackest flower
Blooms on the streets.
The living dead
Are starved or fed
With trick or treats.

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poem by Kevin East
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All Hallows Evening

Halloween, it’s not for kids, it is communing with the dead,
It is not necessarily the Satan’s tool per se,
Because Satan has found daily when he can emerge, that being said,
Bite size candy, apples, and money maker for kids to dress up and play,
In McKinny, Texas,
If you are convicted child molester,
you not are allowed to stay open,
Your lights on and door open,
-that’s criminal,
The Society is frightened that your Satanic being will be broth forth,
It is hardly minimal,
-it is not delightful but it is frightful.
(see Observation “Helplessly Homeless”)
The Devil maybe green with envy because human nature out did him,
The last thing we have done is pay more attention to his actions,
The Christmas candy is coming today the first day of November,
The QVC channel started to air their Christmas wares in September,
Society has brought the idea of Christmas to equal dollars spent,
Society has brought the idea of Halloween to equal dollars spent.
You see there is no difference as far as the social implications,

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poem by Joe Rosochacki
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Dead Prayers

hearts trek
feet travel to the road
leading to unknown tombs
forgotten by the winding clocks
never remembered by the heart
and troubled souls
reach the unpainted walls
of a moss decorated crypt
and the dead souls
shouts dead prayers
only the dead can understand
what are halloween prayers anyway?
for uncaring bones
became stout by the earth
addicted by the rain of forgetfullness
and drugged by dreams gone wild
of wisdom lost
in a maze of unknown heavens
in a hell never found..
yet it is Halloween

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poem by Villiamor Calventas
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Monsters Planned Halloween Night

Let me give an updat of Halloween night
When Freddie Krueger and Jason got into a fight.
Blood was flying all around
Yet not one of them made a sound.
Their instruments of death as sharp as can be
And the ending - no one could foresee.

They were joining forces for Halloween night
Since all the Halloween crowd would be waiting for them
Because at midnight the scaring would end.
Now that all the revelers were here
They would plan their rants and jeers.

FREDDIE would pull them out of bed
Then the GRIM REAPER would cut off their heads
Then DRACULA would suck them dry
And their bodies the goblins would hide.

The GHOSTS and WITCHES decided to do their thing
And the frightened victims they would bring.

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poem by Louis Rams
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

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Eva Laureen

In Portlandia lives Eva Laureen
The prettiest girl I've ever seen
She is nice to her dog
As well as her pet frog
And…
Her favorite day is Halloween

poem by Ray Lucero
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As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

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The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

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An October Night (Halloween Poem)

the wind whispers
a wary warning
There was plenty, still
early this morning

These primal urges
are hard to fight
an unholy diet
a dark appetite

The pavement scrapes
with scuttling leaves
I'll pull the drapes
and hope to deceive

The moon suffocates
in ominous clouds
shut off the lights
heart beats too loud

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poem by Chuck Audette
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Halloween I Am

This is the winning poem of the Jon London's The Halloween Challenge last year.

Hello! ! This is the last night of October Speaking! !

Ghoulish costumes and Jack-O -Lantern is what I’m seeking

Hobgoblins, ghosts, witches all are freaky freaking

I parade around the neighbourhood when kids are tricking

Trick or treating, bob for apples anything will do

Beg for soul-cakes when skeletons say –“BOO”!

Instead of turnips the perfect pumpkin carved

Candy Factory, Creepy Cupcakes are you all starved?

Black cats drink water breaking superstitious dam

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A Black Cat Crossed My Path

A black cat crossed my path
On a night of a full moon
He was carrying a pack on his back
And dancing around like a loon.

I thought it was a funny sight
I couldn’t believe my eyes
Then I saw a ghostly cat
In a transparent disguise.

His eyes glowed like fire
In the darkened night
My hands grew cold
I was filled with fright.

Just then the ghostly cat
Found the black cat by a tree
They both did a jig
And started singing merrily.

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poem by Connie Webb
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Halloween Night

Today's a day for chills and fright
They all are on the road tonight
They don't come out during the day
But sneak outside during night to play

Costumes are taken off their racks
Kids eating candy as a snack
Their stomachs are normally in dismay
But no no not today

Normally there is abandoned streets
But today is going to be very sweet
Kids are forgetting their homework
'Cause they all are going berserk

Doors spring open and candy comes out
All the children are running about
Werewolves, skeletons, freaks and more
All their legs are getting sore

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poem by Lance Gong
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I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

quote by John Carpenter
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