“HALLOWEEN
POEMS”
Inspiration
on the fly
Published
by PoemCatcher Creations at Smashwords
Salisbury Centre
2
Salisbury Road
Edinburgh, EH16 5AB
Copyright
All
the poems in this book were donated with love and permission to be
published. It would be thievery to steal the copyright from the
authors. It remains their own. This is their beautiful creativity and
I am just a creative collator. Use of this material is welcomed –
providing it inspires, engages and enthrals audiences
Each and every poem in this book is brilliant. If you disagree, send £10 with your complaint to a child in Haiti.
Cover
Design by Trevor at Fresh Digital
ISBN978-0-9566018-8-9
This
book was made over the Halloween Weekend
and Samhuin festivals on
the streets
of Edinburgh, 2010. It is very scary.
This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.
Visit www.poemcatcher.com
for other titles including
“QUAKE
– Built from nothing”
“BALLS from the queue” Wimbledon
tennis poems
“FUNGUS POEMS”
“SALTY poems from the
Sea”
“FANTASTIC FIREWORKS”
About PoemCatcher Creations
The Pavement PoemCatcher wanders the streets of festivals and events begging for fresh poems to be written “on the fly”. Nearly every poem that is donated gets published, creating books with poetic snapshots that capture the public experience and delight the reader.
He has done this since sitting down on a pavement in march 2010 to beg for poems for the people of Haiti.
By spontaneously asking “ DONATE A POEMS” he inspires brilliance, encourages ‘raw’ creativity, and fundraises for charity
Charity Donation
£1 ($1.5) per book is donated to SOS Children’s Villages Haiti program.
SOS Children's Villages provides a family for life for children who have lost their parents through war, famine, disease, natural disaster and poverty. Over 78,000 orphaned and abandoned children are cared for by SOS mothers in clusters of family homes in more than 500 of our unique Children's Villages in 124 countries worldwide. Thousands more children benefit from SOS Children's outreach support which includes education, vocational training, medical care and community development programmes. SOS Children also provides emergency relief in situations of crisis and disaster, and continues to support families in earthquake and tsunami-affected countries.
Registered Charity Number 1069204
www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 - Paparazzi
Chapter 3 - Street Poems
Chapter 3 - Shore Poets
Chapter 5 - Royal Mile Samhuin Parade
Chapter
6 – From the PoemCatcher
The Party
Dressed up as my namesake
with friends
and fine wine
Having a rare old time
with Darth and The
Doctor
But remembering last year
with my once and future
My
head may be here
But my heart is in Leeds
By Hatter
Cauldrons
When witches lie
the world will
change
Spells Abound
For those they’ve slain
When witches lie
the world will
change
Birth the new
in bed they’ve twain
When witches lie
the world will
change
Thrice the pot
Stirs cauldron rain.
By PoemCatcher
Jenny’s Halloween
This year at Halloween we were all very
bad,
but it may be the most fun that we have ever had
Medusa
and a Sith lord, and a kilted Devil.
Then some bloke we didn’t
invite, I think his name was Neville.
A Doctor Who, A cyber girl
and a pretty princess.
I don’t think I’ll remember
though
Maybe I should drink less.
By Jenny Whyte
Halloween
HALLOWEENIS FUN
HALLOWEEN IS SILLY
HALLOWEN IS FULL OF BLACK KITTENS
By Flo
Hallow’s Eve
All Hallow’s Eve
to celebrate the
dead,
to celebrate the lives they lived,
to enjoy life
to
embrace death
not to fear it.
and to remember
to
celebrate
those you have loved
and lost.
By Rachel Boddy
My Sh*t Halloween Poem!
Eight people sat around a decorated room
All scratching their head, in costume
Trying their best to write a poem that’s witty
But all I offer is my Halloween poem, simple and Sh*tty!
By Mamil Inc
Halloween House
Orange purple black + sweet
squashing
scary skeletons
Spider kittens and Batty cats,
meow
munchkin
pumpkins
By Lisa Edgar
“Surprise”
Pumpkins, pizza, people, go
oooh –
check it out – and
who are yooo? – bats and
blood – all
kinds of scary
- give the vampire – a
bloody Mary!
By Cutty Sark
Binary Halloween Haiku
By Gavin Saxby
Paparazzi
Flashers
Ghoulish scots photocampers
Scare the souls from Burke and
Hare’s
famous graveyard
When flashing the Royal Mile
By Jon
Forgot
Forgot the sweets for Halloween
So in my
house I must stay unseen
When the children call
So I don’t
look mean.
By Anon
I’ve seen the PoemCatcher
It’s nearly Halloween
& this is
the first Poemcatcher I’ve ever seen
I took his picture,
On
Flickr it will be a fixture
I hope it will be seen & Seen
By Brian Donovan
Fancy Dress
All Souls Night
The day that anyone
can
Dress however they want.
Some try to scare
Others make an effort
to show that they care
Its a special day to me
For many reasons
and memories
That others never will see.
By Maree Lucas
Make Believe on All Hallows Eve
By Phh Sykes
October Theifs
There’s tapping at the window
There’s
footsteps on the floor
Howling in the darkness
Creaking in the
door
Witches, bats and broomsticks
Fill the
night time sky
Children scared to look up
On their night to sly
Illuminated pumpkins
with sharpened
pumpkin teeth
shine from neighbours windows
to scare off little
theifs
A song, a dance, a joke or two
to earn
themselves a pound
As guisers fleece the neighbourhood
When
halloween’s around
By Keith Walker
Zombie Walk
Those who are going on a Zombie
Walk
stumble and ‘grrr’ but do not talk
Maybe their grunts
a poem will make
But until then many brains to take.
By E Robson
Images on Halloween
By Nicky L. Stones
Halloween
All Hallows Eve
When spirits walk the
earth once more
Darkness engulfs the land
and fear overwhelms
the masses
Until the break of dawn
When all is calm once more
By Sarah Adams
Halloween!!!
Halloween
A festival for witches
for
monsters and gouls
and zombies held together by stitches
For sounds and screams
that will fill
you with fright
SO hide in the shadows
and hope you make it
through the night!
By Richie Gunn
Jack O’ Lantern
Lights,
Peering out
I wonder
What he sees?
By Pam
A Night of Spooks
A night of spooks & scary bats
witches
cauldrons & flying mats
Pumpkin Lanterns & Black
Cats
Magic Wands & Pointy Hats
Children’s faces shine
with Glee
as they TRICK & TREAT with me.
By Lou Wood
Trick or Treat
Kids in hockey masks
Roam the streets
Striking fear into all the
People they meet,
With the immortal words
“trick or treat”
By Simon Sheehan
On the night of the witches
The night of the witches once more
The
kids come knocking on the door
To scare, moan, groan like a ghost
or ghoul
The more scary then the more cool
The requirements of
the nights’ only a mask
but never loose sight that its never a
task
Have a Happy Halloween.
By Scott Armour
Halloween fun from a nearly-two perspective
You can dress up in costumes
of wizards
and witches
You can ‘scare’ them with
dangly
spiders and baddies
But they’re oblivious to all of
the
‘fun’ and good wishes
And concentrate hard on
their food and
their teddies!
By May Cruikshank
Neither Trick nor Treat
All Hallow’s Eve
We’ve lost the real
meaning
Now its all commercial,
Quite demeaning,
and not
that special.
By Deb Ball
Life Melody
Halloween is always funny,
but it’s
also about life melody!
Enjoy your days with love and
sympathy,
Even a penny can bring the world beauty
By Shawn Q
Everybody likes Halloween
Thrill is for the horror movies
Halloween is lots of funny things
People
like Halloween,
because we like fun things
We enjoy the
parties,
While children love the candies,
Witches on the
street,
mouths filled with sweet.
We like Halloween,
Because
everybody win
By Wang Xuan
Roses
Roses are red
Halloween’s
scary
getting dressed up
To look like a fairy
By PoemCatcher (with help)
Halloween
Halloween frightening scenes
Scary faces
make you scream
Haunted Houses, witches ghouls
Or are they only
silly fools
Getting dressed up every year
just to in still lots
of fear
By RoseMarie Armour
Jack o’Lantern
All Hallows Eve
is not a nice time of
year
if you happen to be
a pumpkin
How would you like it
if they sliced
off the top of your head,
scooped out your brains
and carved up
your face
so your own mother wouldn’t
recognise you?
Then you’re left to roast
slowly, from
the inside out,
in the heat of one small candle.
Never mind, we’ll have the last
laugh.
Come Saints Day,
you’ll be dining on pumpkin
pie,
baked pumpkin, pumpkin soup,
pumpkin kebabs.
By Fiona Carmichael
The Halloween Thief
HALLOWEEN DRAWS OUT ALL SORTS OF
FOLK
GHOULS, SPIDERS, GHOSTS AND FIENDISH GNOMES
- EVEN MEN WHO
STEAL YOUR POEMS!
BY Jurgen Van Wessel
Trick or Treat
My sweet child
with golden curls,
and
eyes of blue
why don’t I
dress you
as a witch
with a
pointy hat
Would you like that?
I’ll send you out
into the dark
through the park
to knock on doors
to demand
sweets and treats
won’t that be fun.
my little one.
By Pam Thorburn
A Waiting Pint
TIME PASSES
A Room with no windows
A Pint waits
FAR AWAY.
By Paul Aitken
Magic of Spirits
The wind howls,
making a waterfall of
shimmering
red, yellow & orange leaves,
falling of the
sleeping trees.
The evil pumpkins grin showing off their
sparkly teeth.
It is that time of year again,
when the magic
of spirits are upon us.
By Aroosha Laghaee
Photocamp
By Neil Robinson
Binbag witch
Drink a toast to a bedsheet ghost,
Give
some sweets to a Franken – teen
A mummy with rags or witch
wearing binbags,
because tonight is Halloween
By John McCarthey
The Broom
INSPIRATION RUNNING DAY
I TOOK A PHOTO
OF THIS GUY
HE TOOK HIS FUNNY LOOKING BROOM
AND CARRIED IT
AROUND THIS ROOM
IN SEARCH OF DITTIES
MAYBE WITTIES
HIS
BROOM IT TURNED INTO A NET
TO CAPTURE WHAT IN PRINT TO SET.
By Donald Tainsh
Penned in the Dark
Hushed
Click; click; click
The
photographers write
Scared
Click Click
FLASH
The
Hallowed Eve
Draws near
By PoemCatcher
Sounds of Halloween
Yum~ Yum~
Pumpkin.
Whoo~ Whoo~
Wolfman.
Shhhh~Shhhh~
Spirit.
“Trick or Treat”
Oh! No! The
children are coming.
By Evelyn
Devils Army
Halloween Halloween Halloween!!!
Oh
Great what a day,
Feels Like Devils army Landed on earth!!
But
I feel like a new recruit in it.
A little girl passing by scared me
think
my make up didn’t worked
well!!!
Halloween Halloween, what a Grand
Day!!