Skeletal Remains
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all hallows day approaches
celebrating saints and sinners
martyrs fighting for the winners
a sense of dread growing
strange lanterns glowing
offerings of tricks and treats
a shuffling of patron’s seats
as buried skeletons emerge
along with a wailing dirge
rousing all your fears
grown ripe with the years
casting a magic spell
to purge your living hell
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Spell and Treat are this week’s prompt words for Colleen Chesebro’s Weekly Poetry Challenge. Each week Colleen posts two prompt words to be used to create a poem but using synonyms for the two words. I didn’t use synonyms or the suggested poetry forms, maybe I’m under a spell, but offer up my haunted verse in honor of Halloween. If you’d like a lighter take on Halloween, here is a poem I wrote last year called Haunted Spells.
May your muse be happy, your spells loving, and your heart full.
Happy Halloween!
I really like both this and last year’s poems. This one brought up haunting visions and the sound of Vincent Price’s spooky voice at the end of Thriller 😉 Here’s to loving spells! ❤
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Thanks Tania. I had fun with both. Spells can be fun or freaky. 🙂
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hehe! yep 😉
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This looks like it was a fun challenge, Brad! I’m planning on doing one for November if it works out. I’ll try to also look 👀 for this one in the future! I like what you did here and enjoyed visiting your neighborhood!
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I hope you have fun with it Ka. It’s nice to have you haunting the neighborhood. 👀
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Hehehe 👻🎃Happy to be a friendly Haunt, Brad 🙂
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🙂
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This is a great poem, Brad. I enjoyed your “Halloween” side.
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Thanks Robbie. Happy Haunting!
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Love the Poem….enjoy Halloween!!
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Thanks Kirt. Happy Halloween!
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Awesome 👍 👍👍 poem, Brad. Fit for Halloween and even the picture. Nice spells and thrills. Happy Halloween to you.😊😊😊😊
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Thank you Kamal. Happy Halloween!
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Welcome 😊😊 😊 dear Brad
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I like the graveyard photo and the haunting Halloween poem, Brad. I hope you have a lot of fun this evening with the trick-or-treaters. We live so far out that we don’t get any little ghosts or skeletons visiting. Enjoy.
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Thank you Diana. We don’t get visitors either but I’m having fun at work today. Happy Halloween!
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Eerie and haunting Brad!
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Thanks Andrea. I had fun playing with the dark side. 🙂
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A lyrical Halloween “spellbinding” poem, Brad. I like the rhythm of your words here. They are musically spooky!
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Thank you for the high praise Pam. I think I was entranced by the spirits. 🙂
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May we ALWAYS be spiritually entranced!!
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OM…. 🙂
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Well done on this poem. I enjoyed it.
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Thanks Ali. My muse and I had fun!
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It’s such a great gift to give yourself, taking time to write.
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Agreed. Thanks Ali.
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Love the words and the pics! Hope you got more trick-or-treaters than we did. It snowed here and that put them off . . . in my day, we’d still have gone:).
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Thanks Kristine. No, we don’t get many in my neighborhood and I’ve never encountered snow on Halloween. That sounds fun and hard core for trick or treating!
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Fun poem! I hope you had a great All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, Day of the Dead, All Souls’ Day – all those things. 🙂
Sending you hugs and wishes for a Happy November. 🙂
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Thank you Cynthia. I mostly worked and celebrated online, as I live much of my life now. I hope yours was more grounded than mine. 🙂
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Your poem is absolutely perfect…… This is a fascinating time of the year….Here in the UK many ancient traditions are celebrated……….Janet X
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Thank you Janet. My muse and I had fun exploring alternate perspectives. I’m glad there are many rich traditions to explore.
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This is a great Hallowe’en poem, Brad! You capture the sights and sounds and “spirit” of it.
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Thank you Cynthia. I had fun with it.
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It was fun to read! Your playful side comes out so well in your poetry.
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Yay!
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