By Richard Brautigan
I saw thousands of pumpkins last night
come floating in on the tide,
bumping up against the rocks and
rolling…
come floating in on the tide,
bumping up against the rocks and
rolling…
Explore Poems: Halloween
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- By Felicia Dorothea HemansSee’st thou yon gray gleaming hall,
Where the deep elm-shadows fall?
Voices that have left the earth
… - By Lindsay TurnerSome yellow sunflowers open down the street,
A ladder is open beneath someone’s apple tree.
Beneath … - By William Butler YeatsMidnight has come and the great Christ Church bellAnd many a lesser bell sound through the room;And …
- By Karyna McGlynn& Memphis is out in Full Fang!
Skeletons skip down our pitted streets.
Whole families with matching hobo… - By W. S. Di PieroThey’re gathering now
cone-head ghouls Spider-Man
fly-by-nighters’ burnt-cork cheeks
flailed sheets… - By Stacy SzymaszekI saw this day coming class would end and it would be night
time to attach bike lights tonight I lit… - By Darren SardelliOur grandma kissed a pumpkin
on a Friday afternoon.
She also kissed a crayon
and a giant red balloon… - By Elizabeth WillisA witch can charm milk from an ax handle.
A witch bewitches a man's shoe.
A witch sleeps naked.
"… - By Craig Santos PerezDarkness spills across the sky like an oil plume.
The moon reflects bleached coral. Tonight, let us
… - By Edgar Allan PoeOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume… - By Kenn NesbittWe’re having a Halloween party at school.
I’m dressed up like Dracula. Man, I look cool!
I dyed my hair… - By Louise ErdrichYou knew I was coming for you, little one,
when the kettle jumped into the fire.
Towels flapped on the… - By Ava Leavell HaymonYou are food.
You are here for me
to eat. Fatten up,
and I will like you better.
Your brother will be first… - By Ishmael ReedHe frightens all the witches and the dragons in their lair
He cues the clear blue daylight and He gives… - By William ShakespeareDouble, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron… - By Michael WatersThat Halloween I wore your wedding dress,
our children spooked & wouldn’t speak for days.
I’d razored… - By Maurice Kilwein GuevaraTonight I light the candles of my eyes in the lee
And swing down this branch full of red leaves.
Yellow… - By Mary KarrStare hard enough at the fabric of night,
and if you're predisposed to dark—let’s say
the window you… - By Cynthia HuntingtonAt first you didn’t know me.
I was a shape moving rapidly, nervous
at the edge of your vision. A flat…