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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    • Poem of the Day
    Featured Shared Story

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

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  3. 2. 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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  5. 3. 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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    Featured Shared Story

    What a brilliant poem that perfectly captures Halloween Night.

  6. 4. 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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  7. 5. 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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    • Rating 4.12
    Featured Shared Story

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

  8. 6. 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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  9. 7. 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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  10. 8. 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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    • Rating 4.22
  11. 9. 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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  12. 10. 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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  13. 11. Black Hood

    • By Amy Pan
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2014 with permission of the Author.

    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. 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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  15. 13. Theme In Yellow

    Famous Poem

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

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  16. 14. Fearful, Foggy Night

    Damp darkness befalls as gray fog settles in.
    Frightening shadows lingering within.

    Footsteps echo through the black, eerie night

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  17. 15. 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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  18. 16. 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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    • Rating 3.98
  19. 17. Black Trees, Ghosts, And Bumble Bees

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

    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 4.11
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    Dear Coral,
    I am an adult woman that loves-so far-Halloween. I really enjoyed your poem. Please keep writing.

  20. 18. Halloween Night

    • By Joy Johnson
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2015 with permission of the Author.

    The chilly nights begin tonight.
    The haunted houses bring the fright.
    The warm bonfires have the flames.
    See the leaves rustle through the window frames.

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    • Rating 3.85
  21. 19. 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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  22. 20. Halloween

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

    Halloween, blood gurgling scream
    Little children run and hide
    Ghost costumes and flying brooms
    On which evil witches ride

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