It's the time of year for plastic masks, imitation cobwebs, pumpkins and the like, opportunities for children to overstretch already active imaginations. Exercising the imagination also lends itself to poetry.
All Hallows
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October On all Hallows eve,
if you are so inclined you may believe,
goblins,
ghosts and all nature of creatures,
with twisted forms and tormented features,
will
walk among the living,
their
purpose other than forgiving.
A disturbed
night
of strange
noises and broken sleep,
an unexplained
sense of flesh creep,
sensible
to rest or so it would seem,
how to
avoid the risk of that dream.
But
still the idea persists,
the
mind stubbornly resists,
that
on this disturbed of all nights,
otherworldly creatures might,
pay a
visit most disturbing,
with
nameless outcomes resulting.
In
fact there is no reason at all,
why
spirits that walk wouldn’t call,
on any
other given day,
the
aim to have their evil way,
in
correcting errors in the past,
so
they may achieve peace at last.
© David L Atkinson
October 2023
God Bless
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