Five little Pumpkins (five fingers up) sitting on a gate. The first one said (one finger up) "My, it's getting late." The second one said, (2 fingers up) "There are witches in the air" The third one said, (3 fingers up) "But we don’t care" The forth one said, (4 fingers up) "We’ll run and run and run" The fifth one said, (5 fingers up) "It's just Halloween fun." "Whooooo" went the wind And out went the light (Clap hands) And the five little pumpkins rolled out of site. (Roll arms)
The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top And carves out the round stemmed lid, The hole of which allows the hand to go In to pull the gooey mess inside, out - The walls scooped clean with a spoon. A grim design decided on, that afternoon, The eyes are the first to go, Isosceles or trapezoid, the square nose, The down-turned mouth with three Hideous teeth and, sometimes, Round ears. At dusk it's Lighted, the room behind it dark. Outside, looking in, it looks like a Pumpkin, it looks like ripeness Is all. Kids come, beckoned by Fingers of shadows on leaf-strewn lawns To trick or treat. Standing at the open Door, the sculptor, a warlock, drops Penny candies into their bags, knowing The message of winter: only the children, Pretending to be ghosts, are real. Email This Poem to a Friend
A bald-headed ghost Drank some witches' brew And on top of his head A strange thing grew.
It was pointed and tall And black as a bat With stringy long hair Where his head was flat.
The sad little ghost Didn't want any hair Or a black pointed hat So he said, "Witch beware!" Then he chanted some words With a spell-casting switch And gave Halloween Night A bald-headed witch!!
A tree’s leaves in the fall are some orange, some red and for a small bird they make quite a bed the branches of trees are some curved, some straight and some even form a small figure eight The trunk of the tree is the base of itself quite like in a library, a rusty old shelf the roots of the tree go deep, deep down like a buried treasure never to be found trees need sunshine, water, and dirt without these things they could get hurt trees can do things that I wish I could If you’re looking for one I’d check in the woods!
Did You Ever See a Pumpkin (Did You Ever See a Lassie)
Did you ever see a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin Did you ever see a pumpkin with no face at all With no eyes and no nose and no mouth and no teeth Did you ever see a pumpkin with no face at all.
So I made a Jack-O-Lantern, a Jack-O-Lantern, a Jack-O-Lantern, So I made a Jack-O-Lantern with a big funny fae With big eyes, and a big nose and big mouth and big teeth So I made a Jack-O-Lantern with a big funny face
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 ghoul and ghost And goblin host Dance round their queen. It's Hallowe'en.
T'was the week before All Hallows Eve My nose was so stuffy that I couldn't breathe. The beasties and ghoulies all were creeping, (It was late at night, I should've been sleeping). I heard their sighs, I heard their moans, Their rattling chains and creaking bones; But I didn't get scared, didn't wish them away 'Cuz I like to hear ghoulies and beasties at play. These creatures, you see, were very polite Each time that I sneezed they'd say "Gesundheit" Halloween Allergies -- A Poem by Cheri Halloween Poems
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With an evil eye that stares you down and a bulbous warty nose, a furrowed brow, a nasty scowl, and old outdated clothes, my costume is the scariest the world has ever seen. I'm not an ogre, ghost, or ghoul: I'm a teacher for Halloween.
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.
A bald-headed ghost Drank some witches' brew And on top of his head A strange thing grew.
It was pointed and tall And black as a bat With stringy long hair Where his head was flat.
The sad little ghost Didn't want any hair Or a black pointed hat So he said, "Witch beware!" Then he chanted some words With a spell-casting switch And gave Halloween Night A bald-headed witch!!
Oh no, not again, the time is near, It always happens at this time of year. The hissing of unlucky balck cat, And ovrhead all the screeching bats. When gone completely is the sun, The vampires come out to have some fun. Witches stir their cauldrons or grab onto a broom, Casting spells and cackling as they fly across the moon. Skeletons dance around shaking all their bones, Playing many stange toons on all their xylophones. Ghosts and goblins join the fun too, Running about and shouting out BOO! Jack-o-lanturns smailing and burning bright, Don't worry it's just another Halloween Night.
I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold clusters And I am called pumpkins. On the last of October When dusk is fallen Children join hands And circle round me Singing ghost songs And love to the harvest moon; I am a jack-o’-lantern With terrible teeth And the children know I am fooling.
H alloween's a sudden BOO!! A nd just as quick a scream: L aughing in the scary dark, L oving friendly fright. O n Halloween, witches come true; W ild ghosts escape from dreams. E ach monster dances in the park, E ating candy like a shark N ow kiss and say goodnight!
Five Little Pumpkins
ReplyDeleteOriginal Author Unknown
Five little Pumpkins (five fingers up)
sitting on a gate.
The first one said (one finger up)
"My, it's getting late."
The second one said, (2 fingers up)
"There are witches in the air"
The third one said, (3 fingers up)
"But we don’t care"
The forth one said, (4 fingers up)
"We’ll run and run and run"
The fifth one said, (5 fingers up)
"It's just Halloween fun."
"Whooooo" went the wind
And out went the light (Clap hands)
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of site.
(Roll arms)
MONSTER STEW
ReplyDeleteby Judith Kinter
If you are getting tired
Of plain old witches' brew,
Next time you have a party
Try gourmet monster stew.
Put on an old black apron
Borrowed from a witch;
Then scoop in murky water
From a brackish ditch.
Pond slime is the next thing,
A bucketful or two;
But if you don't have pond slime,
Some moldy soup will do.
Now measure in an owl-hoot,
Two grumbles and a groan.
To make it really tasty,
Add an eerie moan.
Now if your guests are monsters,
You cackle while they eat.
They'll say your stew is gruesome,
A most delightful treat!
Halloween by Mac Hammond
ReplyDeleteThe butcher knife goes in, first, at the top
And carves out the round stemmed lid,
The hole of which allows the hand to go
In to pull the gooey mess inside, out -
The walls scooped clean with a spoon.
A grim design decided on, that afternoon,
The eyes are the first to go,
Isosceles or trapezoid, the square nose,
The down-turned mouth with three
Hideous teeth and, sometimes,
Round ears. At dusk it's
Lighted, the room behind it dark.
Outside, looking in, it looks like a
Pumpkin, it looks like ripeness
Is all. Kids come, beckoned by
Fingers of shadows on leaf-strewn lawns
To trick or treat. Standing at the open
Door, the sculptor, a warlock, drops
Penny candies into their bags, knowing
The message of winter: only the children,
Pretending to be ghosts, are real.
Email This Poem to a Friend
HALLOWEEN MAGIC
ReplyDeleteBarbara M. Hales
A bald-headed ghost
Drank some witches' brew
And on top of his head
A strange thing grew.
It was pointed and tall
And black as a bat
With stringy long hair
Where his head was flat.
The sad little ghost
Didn't want any hair
Or a black pointed hat
So he said, "Witch beware!"
Then he chanted some words
With a spell-casting switch
And gave Halloween Night
A bald-headed witch!!
The Oak
ReplyDeleteby Michael Collins
A tree’s leaves in the fall
are some orange, some red
and for a small bird
they make quite a bed
the branches of trees
are some curved, some straight
and some even form
a small figure eight
The trunk of the tree
is the base of itself
quite like in a library,
a rusty old shelf
the roots of the tree
go deep, deep down
like a buried treasure
never to be found
trees need sunshine,
water, and dirt
without these things
they could get hurt
trees can do things
that I wish I could
If you’re looking for one
I’d check in the woods!
Jason Radel
ReplyDelete"October Dawn"
October is marigold, and yet
A glass half full of wine left out
To the dark heaven all night, by dawn
Has dreamed a premonition
Of ice across its eye as if
The ice-age had begun its heave.
The lawn overtrodden and strewn
From the night before, and the whistling green
Shrubbery are doomed. Ice
Has got its spearhead into place.
First a skin, delicately here
Restraining a ripple from the air;
Soon plate and rivet on pond and brook;
Then tons of chain and massive lock
To hold rivers. Then, sound by sight
Will Mammoth and Sabre-tooth celebrate
Reunion while a fist of cold
Squeezes the fire at the core of the world,
Squeezes the fire at the core of the heart,
And now it is about to start.
--Ted Hughe
IT'S HALLOWEEN
ReplyDeleteIt's Halloween! It's Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen
On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels,
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms.
In masks and gowns
we haunt the street
And knock on doors
for trick or treat.
Tonight we are
the king and queen,
For oh tonight
it's Halloween!
~Jack Prelutsky~
Posted by Rebecca Selfridge
Pumpkin Time
ReplyDeleteauthor unknown
Pumpkin time is here again,
Time to play trick or Treat.
Pumpkin time is here again,
Our Spooky friends we'll meet.
See the costumes we have on,
Monsters, ghosts, goblins too.
See the costumes we have on,
Hear us all shout "BOO!"
HENRY'S HALLOWEEN
ReplyDeleteLantern burning light
Still the moon keeps shining bright
Darkness comes to make it night
Children given a fright
Witches fly across the sky
On a broomstick up, up high
Black cat flying with the witch
Wizard's Wand beginning to twitch
'Trick or Treaters' playing tricks
On those who didn't give them sweets
Everyone is very scared
The pumpkin has an evil glare
Evil spirits fill the streets with bones
The skeletons are in town!
Ghosts keep the children awake
......Bats fly back to their cave.
~Henry Yeung
My New School
ReplyDeleteby Robert Pottle
My teacher looks like Dracula.
We learn of blood and bats
The playgrounds home to toads and trolls,
lizards, newts, and rats.
The nurse claims she can raise the dead.
The janitor's a ghost.
The cook looks like Medusa
serving toe-jam spread on toast.
The scary secretary
starts each morning with a, "BOO!"
The principal is Frankenstein--
a grad from Scary U.
The kids are little monsters
I really don't fit in.
I don't have fangs or pointy claws
or warts upon my chin.
And cause I am so different
my classmates call me dummy.
So I'll dress up tomorrow
as a toilet paper mummy.
Terra Mangan
ReplyDeleteDid You Ever See a Pumpkin
(Did You Ever See a Lassie)
Did you ever see a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin
Did you ever see a pumpkin with no face at all
With no eyes and no nose and no mouth and no teeth
Did you ever see a pumpkin with no face at all.
So I made a Jack-O-Lantern, a Jack-O-Lantern, a Jack-O-Lantern,
So I made a Jack-O-Lantern with a big funny fae
With big eyes, and a big nose and big mouth and big teeth
So I made a Jack-O-Lantern with a big funny face
Halloween
ReplyDeleteHarry Behn
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 ghoul and ghost
And goblin host
Dance round their queen.
It's Hallowe'en.
Halloween Allergies --
ReplyDeleteby: Cheri
T'was the week before All Hallows Eve
My nose was so stuffy that I couldn't breathe.
The beasties and ghoulies all were creeping,
(It was late at night, I should've been sleeping).
I heard their sighs, I heard their moans,
Their rattling chains and creaking bones;
But I didn't get scared, didn't wish them away
'Cuz I like to hear ghoulies and beasties at play.
These creatures, you see, were very polite
Each time that I sneezed they'd say "Gesundheit"
Halloween Allergies -- A Poem by Cheri Halloween Poems
Halloween Poem: A Spirited Denial
ReplyDelete“Haunted house!"
“Haunted house!”
It’s what the children shout
But I’ve been here for centuries
And ghosts I've been without
I died in 1824
My age was ninety-three
There’s never been a single ghost
There’s no one here but me
Haunted house? Ridiculous!
A ghost I would have seen
So don’t be scared, come ring my bell
I’m here each Halloween!
~Jeff Mondak
ON HALLOWEEN
ReplyDeleteThe witches fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, "Who? Who? Who?"
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
"Scary Halloween to you!"
Scary Costume
ReplyDeleteby Robert Pottle
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With an evil eye that stares you down
and a bulbous warty nose,
a furrowed brow, a nasty scowl,
and old outdated clothes,
my costume is the scariest
the world has ever seen.
I'm not an ogre, ghost, or ghoul:
I'm a teacher for Halloween.
IT'S HALLOWEEN
ReplyDeleteIt's Halloween! It's Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen
On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels,
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms.
In masks and gowns
we haunt the street
And knock on doors
for trick or treat.
Tonight we are
the king and queen,
For oh tonight
it's Halloween!
Spooks
ReplyDeleteBy Sandra Liatsos
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.
HALLOWEEN MAGIC
ReplyDeleteA bald-headed ghost
Drank some witches' brew
And on top of his head
A strange thing grew.
It was pointed and tall
And black as a bat
With stringy long hair
Where his head was flat.
The sad little ghost
Didn't want any hair
Or a black pointed hat
So he said, "Witch beware!"
Then he chanted some words
With a spell-casting switch
And gave Halloween Night
A bald-headed witch!!
~Barbara M. Hales~
HALLOWEEN POEM
ReplyDeleteAuthor Unknown
Oh no, not again, the time is near,
It always happens at this time of year.
The hissing of unlucky balck cat,
And ovrhead all the screeching bats.
When gone completely is the sun,
The vampires come out to have some fun.
Witches stir their cauldrons or grab onto a broom,
Casting spells and cackling as they fly across the moon.
Skeletons dance around shaking all their bones,
Playing many stange toons on all their xylophones.
Ghosts and goblins join the fun too,
Running about and shouting out BOO!
Jack-o-lanturns smailing and burning bright,
Don't worry it's just another Halloween Night.
Halloween
ReplyDeleteHooting
Howling
Hissing
Witches,
Riding
Rasping
Ragged
Switches;
Fluttering
Frightening
Fearsome
Bats;
Arching
Awesome
Awful
Cats;
Long
Lantern-
Lighted
Streets;
Tricks!
Tasty
Tempting
Treats!
Phyllis J. Perry
Theme in Yellow
ReplyDeleteby Carl Sandburg
I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o’-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.
H alloween's a sudden BOO!!
ReplyDeleteA nd just as quick a scream:
L aughing in the scary dark,
L oving friendly fright.
O n Halloween, witches come true;
W ild ghosts escape from dreams.
E ach monster dances in the park,
E ating candy like a shark
N ow kiss and say goodnight!