Hollow, Hollow Halloween

November 3, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Halloween poem about the plight of lost souls:

Hollow, hollow Halloween,

All hollow at the bone

Like a loud but silent scream

Long entombed in stone.

O hollow, hard, unhallowed souls

Wandering the night:

Ever weep on daylight’s shoals

Even as the matin tolls,

Never reaching light.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

11/1: Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

11/2: Horror Is a Kind of Play

11/3: Hollow, Hollow Halloween

Horror Is a Kind of Play

November 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Halloween poem about the real-life function of Halloween horror:

Horror is a kind of play,

A need to undergo

Life along the borderline,

Lest death be just a name.

On Halloween we dream away

What wailing we well know,

Enchanted by the danger sign

Each savors up and down the spine,

Near haunts that are no game.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

11/1: Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

11/2: Horror Is a Kind of Play

Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

November 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Halloween poem about how much scary creatures delight in scaring people:

Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance:

Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew,

Leaping into darkness with delight,

Lusting for the ecstasy of fright,

Open to the charm of horrors new.

Well may you start your screaming in advance,

Even as you give a ghoul a chance,

Each creepy creature craving to say, "Boo!",

Near heaven in its netherworld of night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

11/1: Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

October 31, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Halloween poem about the realities behind the fantasies of horror.

Have a look in the mirror of your dreams:

All the horrors that you see are real.

Lest you think the world is as it seems,

Let your skin crawl, your frozen blood congeal.

Of fear and fantasy now take your fill.

Wells of sorrow lie beneath your feet.

Each sun-drenched field you mercilessly till

Endures to see your ultimate defeat.

Now let yourself let go your last conceit.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

Happy, Happy Halloween

October 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which will be celebrated tomorrow, Oct. 31.

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

A Halloween poem that contrasts the pleasures of the living with the suffering of ghosts:

Happy, Happy Halloween!

A funhouse till tomorrow!

Let the living squirm and scream!

Leave the dead to sorrow.

Only ghosts endure such pain,

Well beyond their age,

Each undone again, again,

Each condemned to rage.

Nor can they turn the page.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

October 29, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Halloween poem about witches itching to ride their brooms:

Brooms inspire restless witches

Ready for their midnight rides,

Overcome by urgent itches

One indulges to survive.

Maybe you will see them soon

Shrieking as they cross the moon.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

I Cannot Think You're Not Alive Somewhere

October 28, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is belief in the supernatural.

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

A poem about the origin of the belief in life after death:

I cannot think you're not alive somewhere.

I think of you just as I did before.

No sudden gust of wind has closed the door

Or made your presence vanish in thin air.

I write you this because I know you're there;

That even after death there must be more.

So does faith one's inner sun restore

After bitter darkness few can bear.

My mind and heart have not yet lost a friend

Even though my senses are bereft,

For you remain the witness of my soul.

No mere accident our love can end

So long as I have will and memory left,

And you lie silent on some unknown shoal.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Belief in the Supernatural

10/22: Janae

10/23: Natalie

10/24: Happy Fifth Anniversary

10/25: Martin

10/26: Several Days Before I Was to Die

10/27: Children Who Die Are Not Really Gone

10/28: I Cannot Think You’re Not Alive Somewhere