Halloween Poems

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.

41 Trick or Treat Poems

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  1. 1. 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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    • Rating 4.08
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    I REALLY GOT SCARED OMG but YES this poem is really so so so funny.

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  3. 2. Night Of Fright

    Monsters stalking through the night.
    Halloween is the Night of Fright.
    Fear is what this night brings,
    Along with many other things.

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  5. 3. Spooky Halloween Night

    • By Jacey Vantimmeren
    • Published: December 2014

    It's very spooky on Halloween night.
    The ghosts and goblins will give you a fright.

    Watch your back, do not be blind.

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    It's really great! I was looking for poems for my daughter and this is amazing! It's wonderful!

  6. 4. Candy Corn

    • By Jan R
    • Published: December 2014

    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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  7. 5. Black Trees, Ghosts, And Bumble Bees

    Lying on your bed just like every other night,
    There is something that'd give grown men fright,
    There's a black figure stalking in the night,
    And it won't go away until dark turns to light,

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    • Rating 4.07
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    Dear Coral,
    I am an adult woman that loves-so far-Halloween. I really enjoyed your poem. Please keep writing.

  8. 6. Theme In Yellow

    I spot the hills
    With yellow balls in autumn.
    I light the prairie cornfields
    Orange and tawny gold clusters

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    • Rating 3.54
  9. 7. Haunted House

    Rattle-skattle skeletons
    clitter-clack each bone
    Shrieksome banshees circle
    and werewolves howl and moan.

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  10. 8. Halloween Is Coming

    Creeping, crawling creatures scurry in the night,
    Rats and bats and spiders, nibble, out of sight,
    Don’t look too carefully,
    You’ll get a nasty fright!

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  11. 9. Halloween Party

    Cold night on Craggy Height,
    The witches make ready their yearly flight.
    Old brooms rewoven, blackest cats chosen.
    When they fly tonight, there'll be no dozing.

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  12. 10. Mystic Magination Night!

    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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  13. 11. 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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  14. 12. One Good Scare

    I saw a shadow passing by,
    Thinking it just a trick of the eye.
    I turned on the light, but no one was there,
    Though I noticed a fragrance, thick in the air.

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  15. 13. Haunted House Inventory

    Wooden door; wide and creaky.
    Sculking cat; snide and sneaky.
    Skeletons; cold and clanky.
    Madame Witch; old and cranky.

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  16. 14. Homecoming

    Shiver me timbers, rattle me bones,
    it's All Hallows' Eve, and I'm on me way home.
    Home to me wifey, me Katy, me best--
    been three hundred years since they laid us to rest.

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  17. 15. Halloween Chills

    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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  18. 16. Witches' Moon

    • By Rod I. Eaton
    • Published: October 2020

    On 'Tober nights ere Witches' Moon,
    spirits sway and creatures croon.
    As darkness falls and shadows grow,
    haints and haunters fain to show.

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  19. 17. Halloween Is Here

    Dark and mysterious creepy night.
    Pumpkin masks shining bright.
    Scary monsters, witches' brew.
    Trick or treat, you have to choose.

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  20. 18. Trick Or Treat

    Candy, candy in the bag.
    It's that time of year.
    Funny clown, witchy hag.
    Another house is near.

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  21. 19. Halloween Is Nearly Here

    Halloween is nearly here.
    I’ve got my costume planned.
    It’s sure to be the most horrific
    outfit in the land.

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  22. 20. A Fairy Ball At Dragonfly Cove

    • By Patricia F. Schrader
    • Published: October 20, 2021

    In the fairy town of Dragonfly Cove, the air is filled with anticipation
    For tonight is the town's biggest event, its Halloween celebration

    The fairies are up with the first rays of the sun

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