Halloween Poem

Here is a collection of Halloween Poems that will brighten up your  Halloween Spirit. Feel the spirit of Halloween in this spooky Halloween poetry.

ADVICE ON HOW
TO SLEEP WELL on HALLOWEEN NIGHT

The thing to remember when you go to bed
Is hang strings of garlic high over your head,
So werewolves and vampires won't come to call.
In fact you won't get many callers at all
'Cause garlic is smelly, besides its success
With magical creatures who visit distress
On humans who read scary stories at night,
And sleep in their bedrooms without a night-light.

The thing to remember when you go to bed
Is putting a cross at your foot and your head,
'Cause witches and vampire bats are religious
And touching a sign like a cross gives them hideous
Goosebumps and warts, hives, the welts and the itches,
Which nobody likes, even vampire bats and witches.
But try not to toss or to turn in your bed.
If you kick off the crosses you're gonna wake dead.

The thing to remember when you go to bed
Is watch out for goblins who munch on your head.
What stops them is water, so ask for a glass,
Then pour it around so the goblins can't pass.
Or else make a run for the bathroom and turn
On the hot and cold faucets and watch goblins squirm.
As a last chance, since goblins all fear running streams,
If you don't own a bathroom, dream water-filled dreams.

So---that's my advice. Now just turn off the light.
Hope you sleep well the next Halloween Night!

- Author Unknown


Last Hallow Eve

I sought a walnut tree,
In hopes my true love's face
I might see.
Three times I called,
Three times I walked apace,
Then in the tree
I saw my true love's face.
-from a 1912 Halloween Greetings postcard 

I'm a jack o' lantern with a great big grin. 
I'm a jack o' lantern with a candle in.
Poof! goes the wind and out goes the light.
Away fly the witches on Halloween night! 
Nancy: By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.
His fingers make a hat about his head.
His pulse is so slow we think him dead.
He loops in crazy figures half the night.
Among the trees that face the corner light.
But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.
by Theodore Roethke 


Shadow lit with yellow eyes

Shadow lit with yellow eyes.
Sky split by its cry.
Night caught in magic
When the owl flies by.
-Tony Johnston 
Nancy: A man lost his wife on a Saturday night,
and where do you think he found her?
Away in the sky, flying so high, 
with the stars and the moon all around her.

- Author Unknown


Halloween Night

Driving home one Halloween night,
I thought I saw a witch take flight.
My heart beat fast, I broke a sweat,
wondering what would happen next.
Then a Ghoul ran past my car,
on his face a deep, red scar.
A Ghost appeared next to my seat,
His wails grew louder, his pain was deep.
I hurried home, my tires squealing,
My eyes were teary, my head was reeling.
It was only then I realized my fright,
I was on the road Halloween night.

- Author Unknown 


Witch Heritage

There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon
but where she was going, I could not but ask it
for under her arm she carried a broom

Old woman, old woman, old woman, said I!
Where are you going away to, so high?
To sweep the cobwebs out of the sky
May I come with you? Aye, by and by. 

- Author Unknown



Witch-Hare

Nancy: In the black furrow of a field
I saw an old witch-hare this night;
And she cocked a lissome ear
And she eyed the moon so bright,
And she nibbled of the green;
And I whispered "Whsst! witch-hare,"
Away like a ghostie o'er the field
She fled, and left the moonlight there.
The Hare, Walter de la Mare

- Author Unknown


Halloween Night

Halloween night
on hallows eve
when the moon is out
when the sky is pitch black
and the Goblins come out

when ghosts are set free
to taunt all the children
when the witches fly high
into the sky
to get to their cauldron

when vampires seek out 
for someone to bite
when trick-or-treaters
are in a big fright
but it's all just a myth 
right?

- Author Unknown


OLD ROGER IS DEAD

Old Roger is dead and he lies in his grave Lies in his grave, lies in his grave
Old Roger is dead and he lies in his grave Heigh ho, lies in his grave
They planted an Apple tree over his hand 
The apples grew ripe and they all tumbled down 
There came and old woman a-picking them up 
Old Roger got up and he gave her a knock
This made the old woman go hippity-hop

- Author Unknown


A Formal Feeling Comes

After great pain, a formal feeling comes--
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Toombs--
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before? 

The Feet, mechanical, go round--
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought--
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone-- 

This is the Hour of Lead--
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons recollect the Snow--
First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go-- 

by Emily Dickinson 


Meeting at Night

The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. 

Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each! 

by Robert Browning

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