Halloween Poems

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Tonight is the night
When dead leaves fly
Like witches on switches
Across the sky,
When elf and sprite
Flit through the night
On a moony sheen.

Tonight is the night
When leaves make a sound
Like a gnome in his home
Under the ground,
When spooks and trolls
Creep out of holes
Mossy and green.

Tonight is the night
When pumpkins stare
Through sheaves and leaves
Everywhere,
When ghouls and ghost
And goblin host
Dance round their queen.
It’s Halloween.

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There’s a goblin at my window,
A monster by my door.
The pumpkin at my table
Keeps on smiling more and more.
There’s a ghost who haunts my bedroom,
A witch whose face is green.
They used to be my family,
Till they dressed for Halloween.

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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good
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Yowling, prowling, growling cat
Why do you switch your tail like that?
Why do your eyes flash gold and green?
Could be – must be – Halloween!

Slinky, inky, blinky cat,
Why do you arch your back like that?
What scary creatures have you seen?
Could be – must be- Halloween!

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Ghosts and goblins, cats and bats,
We’re not afraid of this or that.
They are only make-believe,
Funny costumes on Halloween.
Ghosts and goblins, cats and bats,
We’re not afraid of this or that

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There is a time to be good
and a time to be bad
but this time…
good times for all will be had!
Join our celebration
at the bewitching hour

*

In the name of the spooks I’ve come to ask,
If sheet and pillowcase and mask
You’ll don on Halloween at eight,
And sally forth to meet your fate.
But remember – let none know
Where you have planned this night to go,
You’ll be expected rain or shine
Where swings the jack-o-lantern sign

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Let’s be spooky. Let’s have fun.
We’ll scare ourselves before we’re done
with ghosts and goblins, winds that howl,
things that fly and things that prowl.
We’ll talk about such creepy stuff,
until we all get scared enough
to hear the things we cannot see,
and see the things that just can’t be.
Let’s be spooky, you and me