Halloween Wraps Fear in Innocence

October 25, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Halloween, which falls on October 31.

Today’s poem is a Halloween poem about the holiday’s therapeutic effects.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Halloween wraps fear in innocence,

As though it were a slightly sour sweet.

Let terror, then, be turned into a treat,

Lest it overwhelm our common sense.

Our nightmares are the founts of fancy whence

We draw upon the monsters we would meet,

Eluding horrors we cannot defeat,

Enjoying the parade of our pretense

Now ranged across the night in our defense.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/hallo3.html . For more Halloween poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/halloweenpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Halloween.

October 24: Have No Fear of Goblins, Ghosts, and Witches

October 25: Halloween Wraps Fear in Innocence