Halloween

31/10/2020 –  Poem a Day Compilation



I like the idea of Halloween

As a cultural tradition

But I despise the commercialisation

That comes with it today.



Give me a homemade ghost

Made out of an old bed sheet,

Or a mummy wrapped not in rags

But in reams of toilet paper.



Give me autumn festivals

With bobbing for apples

And scarecrows overseeing

Pumpkin carving competitions.



Give me big haunted houses

Where children giggle and scream,

And ghost tours though graveyards

For those who would dare.



Give me witches with birch brooms,

Black cats on every corner,

And spider webs hanging

From chimneys and doorframes.



Give me people coming together

To ward off evil spirits

By imbibing in such liquors

After the sun has gone down.



Give me stories of ghouls

Told at sleep deprived parties

Where children are up

Long after their bedtime.



Give me Halloween without commerce

With the only blood sucking

Done by cute little vampires

With the fakest of teeth.