Happy Halloween! An Oxymoron

November 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which is celebrated on October 31.

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A Halloween poem about the apparent clash between dread and pleasure, fantasy and truth:

Happy Halloween! An oxymoron?

Although one’s dread and pleasure might appear

Like fantasy and truth to clash, therein

Lie the close-knit twins of fun and fear.

Of course one savors fear through fantasy,

Willing to enjoy it as a truth

Each plays with in the endless play of me,

Embracing the full repertoire of be,

Needing night-worlds brutal and uncouth.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/28: Hinder Not the Hobgoblins

10/29: Here Is Neither Here nor There

10/30: Hear the Children Squeal with Fright

10/31: Hold On to What You Know

11/1: Horror Is a Comfort, Isn’t It?

11/2: Happy Halloween! An Oxymoron