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 by Family Friend Poems September 2014 with permission of the Author.

    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.

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  3. 2. Candy Corn

    • By Jan R
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2014 with permission of the Author.

    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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  5. 3. 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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  6. 4. 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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  7. 5. Halloween Night

    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.

  8. 6. Night Of Fright

    • By Jasmine
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2011 with permission of the Author.

    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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  9. 7. I Wouldn't Live In A Haunted House

    • By Rick W. Cotton
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2018 with permission of the Author.

    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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  10. 8. My Friend Jack

    • By Rick W. Cotton
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2018 with permission of the Author.

    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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  11. 9. 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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  12. 10. Halloween Is Here

    • By John P. Read
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2019 with permission of the Author.

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

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  13. 11. Spooky Halloween Night

    • By Jacey Vantimmeren
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2014 with permission of the Author.

    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!

  14. 12. Halloween Night

    • By Michelle
    • Published by Family Friend Poems July 2008 with permission of the Author.

    The corpse that walks,
    its solemn line.
    The vampire stalks,
    finds blood to dine.

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  15. 13. Black Cats, Beware!

    • By Melissa A. Herod
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2019 with permission of the Author.

    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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  16. 14. Trick Or Treat

    • By Jim Ellis
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2011 with permission of the Author.

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

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  17. 15. Halloween Is Coming

    • By Fiona Halliday
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2021 with permission of the Author.

    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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  18. 16. Witches' Moon

    • By Rod I. Eaton
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2020 with permission of the Author.

    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. A Fairy Ball At Dragonfly Cove

    • By Patricia F. Schrader
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2021 with permission of the Author.

    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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  20. 18. Homecoming

    • By Anne Pollock
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2020 with permission of the Author.

    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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  21. 19. In Darkest Woods He Wandered

    • By Steve Mckee
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2011 with permission of the Author.

    In darkest woods he wandered,
    one moonless stormy night.
    The tree limbs made him shiver
    reaching out through lightning's light.

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    Great spooky writing! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I love to read Halloween/supernatural writing year round.

  22. 20. Halloween Sonnet

    • By Paul Cleere
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2014 with permission of the Author.

    When leaves start turning orange and golden-brown,
    Kids start to dress in costumes so dandy.
    For one day a year, all throughout the town
    It's time for kids to amass some candy.

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