Hat trick or treat

For Halloween masquerading, sometimes dare-ful includes being careful.

Hat trick or treat

The scariest costume’s a vision indeed.

Just try taking trails in a getup extreme.

It’s truly enough to make your eyes bleed.

You might even wish it was all a bad dream.

Simplicity’s handy, when crafting a look.

I’m not just a killjoy, but here’s my defense.

When going for candy, by hook or by crook,

You can’t hold a candle to good common sense.

As wee trick or treaters garb up and go out,

Let’s aim for a recipe, safe on the spot.

Designing a costume that’s tuned up to tout

May be quite ornate, but again, maybe not.

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

31 Days of Poetry and Writing: “vision” (30)
OctPoWriMo: “simplicity” (30)

Daily Post: “candle”

31 Writing Prompts:  "recipe"(30)

Daily Post: “careful”

JNV’s Halloween Challenge “scary” and “costume”

Meme Express: “maybe not”

Simply Snickers: “tune,” “trails,” and “try”

#OctPoWriMo  

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Pondering Placidity and Kick or Treat

Two poems in forms to face different storms.

Pondering placidity

Perhaps placidity is a far cry from passivity. Maybe it’s just a pause for a petite parcel of peace.

Pondering placidity

If peace is a river, then why are we tossed?

Like leaves in the current, we’re whirled, double-crossed.

I crave to be colorless, vapid, and bland –

If just for a moment. You must understand.

Undoubtedly, soon I would rise up and stretch.

I’d bring back my bouncy. My fervor I’d fetch.

We crowd, elbows jammed, as our times flow too fast.

Our joys are forgotten, our troubles broadcast.

Each shore that’s adjourning the spot where I stand

May be solid ground, but it’s not close at hand.

I wonder, how long till we come to a rest?

Perhaps it is time to put faith to the test.

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

31 Days of Poetry and Writing: If He were to take your lips and fill them with His messages, what would they say? (23)

ABC Wednesday: “P” Day

Be Wow Wednesday

Meme Express: “on solid ground”

OctPoWriMo: “undoubtedly” (23)

Simply Snickers: “spot,” “stand,” and “stretch”

Three Word Wednesday: “vapid,” “adjoining,” and “bouncy”

Write 31 Days Challenge: What is your favorite way to spend a lazy day? (23)

#BeWow

#OctPoWriMo  

Kick or treat – A tanka for the prank-a

Halloween still looms.

Decorations placed with care.

Mischief makers strike.

Down come the festive flounces.

Can we eat the candy now?

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

 

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

Weekly Tanka Challenge: “decorations” and “pumpkins”

Image/s:

Still from Speedy – Directed  by Ted Wilde - 1928

Halloween artwork – public domain

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The nonchalant haunt

Does this ring a bell, or how can you tell?

The nonchalant haunt

Just up the street, a structure stands,

Untouched for years by human hands.

The house on the hill

Brings many a chill,

As ev’ry night owl understands.

The peak-ed roof bears barb-ed teeth.

Three prickly pines lurk underneath.

Reality swoons,

As keening wind tunes.

The boldest their own wits bequeath.

The strongest sense no difference brings,

For every breeze gives shingles wings.

With trembles acute,

The solemn salute,

As sneakers suddenly sprout springs.

Some say weird wonders have appeared,

Or apparitions ill-revered.

A fast flash of light

Or creak in the night

Confirm what others long have feared.

One vacant house in any range

Elicits stories weird and strange.

Though nobody’s home,

Still, rumors may roam

Enough to bring our paths to change.

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

Meme Express: “night owl”

Write 31 Days: “different reality”

31 Days of Poetry and Writing: “house on the hill”

Writer’s Workshop: “change”

OctPoWriMo: “sharp” – “prickly,” “barbed,” “peaked,” “acute,” and “keen”

#OctPoWriMo

#BeWoW

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