Poems for Halloween

they give me the chills

I’ve never written a Halloween poem before, but this little haiku came to me as I was laying in bed the other night:

scariest decor
hiding inside my bedroom:
my “ to be read” list

Ok, now onto the experts. I present to you a collection of halloween themed poems that called to me or gave me chills.

Spider - Shel Silverstein

A spider lives inside my head
Who weaves a strange and wondrous web
Of silken threads and silver strings
To catch all sorts of flying things,
Like crumbs of thoughts an bits of smiles
And specks of dried-up tears,
And dust of dreams that catch and cling
For years and years and years…

Dusk in Autumn - Sara Teasdale

The moon is like a scimitar,
A little silver scimitar,
A-drifting down the sky.
And near beside it is a star,
A timid twinkling golden star,
That watches like an eye.
 
And thro’ the nursery window-pane
The witches have a fire again,
Just like the ones we make,—
And now I know they’re having tea,
I wish they’d give a cup to me,
With witches’ currant cake.

Ghost Music - Robert Graves

Gloomy and bare the organ-loft,
Bent-backed and blind the organist.
From rafters looming shadowy,
From the pipes’ tuneful company,
Drifted together drowsily,
Innumerable, formless, dim,
The ghosts of long-dead melodies,
Of anthems, stately, thunderous,
Of Kyries shrill and tremulous:
In melancholy drowsy-sweet
They huddled there in harmony.
Like bats at noontide rafter-hung.

And to conclude, a stunning performance at a poetry slam. This is When We Declare Ourselves Witches by Siling Zang

Happy Halloween witches!