Halloween Poems

Spooky Poems For Halloween

Halloween began as a holiday for individuals who practiced the occult. It has since turned into something completely different. Halloween is about the fun of dressing up and pretending to be someone else for a night. Trick-or-treating and children gorging themselves on way too much candy. Attending costume parties and the thrill of a good scare. Carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns and decorating homes. Halloween has become a celebration of Autumn. There may also be a sinister aspect to the holiday when children believing they are entitled to receive candy vandalize property.

Trick or Treat Poems

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My Next Door Neighbor Is A Witch
- By Samiya Vallee
- Published: September 2014
My next door neighbor is a witch,
And she lives way down in a ditch.
Her clothing is a little strange,
Because she never wants to change.

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I REALLY GOT SCARED OMG but YES this poem is really so so so funny.

Candy Corn
- By Jan R
- Published: December 2014
Shakespearean Sonnet For Halloween

Analysis of Form and Technique

Against the black void, looms the lunar sphere.
Hungry ghosts haunt, satisfied by fright.
Oh my! The children's faces blanch in fear.
And thus the small summit embodies white.

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Mystic Magination Night!
- By Patricia L. Cisco
- Published: July 2018
Trick Or Treaters On Halloween

On one mystic, magic night,
Jack O Lanterns glowing bright,
kids with bags of candy sweet,
roam door to door and street to street,

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Black Hood
- By Amy Pan
- Published: December 2014
You know you've seen it around before
Tailing your car to the grocery store.
Just out of sight from where you stood
That fleeting and unforgettable black hood.

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My Friend Jack
- By Rick W. Cotton
- Published: October 2018
The Fun Of Jack O' Lanterns

Jack comes every year to visit me,
And his grin just makes me smile.
Nearly toothless, he doesn't care.
He happily laughs all the while.

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Halloween Chills
- By Denise M. Cocchiaro
- Published: October 25, 2019
On this night of spooks and gnomes
Of swooning leaves and cringing crones
Of legends told from ear to ear
Of shrieking cats that grin and sneer

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Halloween Night
- By Denise M. Cocchiaro
- Published: October 2015
October Days And Autumn Love

When days grow short and nights get cold
And autumn trees turn red and gold,
Move, we may, through sun drenched days
'Midst leaves and berries and bales of hay.

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What a brilliant poem that perfectly captures Halloween Night.
I Wouldn't Live In A Haunted House
- By Rick W. Cotton
- Published: October 2018
I wouldn't live in a haunted house;
It's something I just wouldn't do.
Not in creepy haunted house.
Not with me or even with you.

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Black Cats, Beware!
- By Melissa A. Herod
- Published: October 25, 2019
Humorous Halloween Poem

To all black cats, please listen keen!
Do fight the urge to see, be seen.
Tonight, avoid all humans mean.
My dears: Stay in on Halloween!

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Pumpkin, Oh Pumpkin
- By Christopher R. Riddels
- Published: October 24, 2019
Kids And Pumpkins

Pumpkin, oh Pumpkin,
Your candle light's bright.
Pumpkin, oh Pumpkin,
You shine bright through the night.

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