How Can Normal, Rational People

October 28, 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 how irrational fears are still alive and well in rational people.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How can normal, rational people

All lust after ghosts one night,

Like the moon on some church steeple

Luring demons to its light?

Old fears lie buried in our pleasure,

Words sealed in a midnight grave,

Each a truth that we must treasure,

Eerie horrors our hearts crave.

Nor should we all our passions pave.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/hallow.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

October 26: Halloween’s a Sudden BOO

October 27: Hobgoblins Say “Hop”

October 28: How Can Normal, Rational People