“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.”
— Paula Curan
One Liner Wednesday.
Tag: Halloween
24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 6, 10/31/23:
TankaTuesday Challenges
This is the second week of First Frost/Grain Rain.
I live in the Northern hemisphere so we are in Autumn. My Kigo words are, “Autumn Mists and leaves” also “Day of the Dead” and “Trick or Treat” and finally “lonely” I chose to write a lonely Tanka, a spooky Etheree and a cheeky Nonet.
I am so lonely
autumn mists are my carriage
I drift lost, unseen
will this day of the dead end
will the world turn on
Colleen our host for Tuesday Tanka also said:
“👻 It’s Halloween week! Bonus Points if you write a second poem on the same post using the phrase: “TRICK OR TREAT.” 👻”
What lies beneath this canopy of leaves.
Watching as the children skip on by
Dressed as little sprites and ghosts they
Giggling, unaware of what
Heeds their passing noises
Don’t disturb evil
You never know
If it will
Trick or
Treat
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Trick or treat the children love to play
As dark falls on all hallows day
Knock on doors and run away
Ghosts and ghouls ask for sweets
What tricks will they play
On you today
This dark Day
Of The
Dead
#writephoto: Skeletons (Halloween)
Here is a twofaone episode and hey presto Morgarna has caught up with everyone else 😊
While Roseanna slept Morgarna checked her time and space coordinates and found she was in London 2023 and so she rang Merlin.
“Hi Babes how’s it going?” Merlin answered his phone on the first ring.
” Not bad, I was just getting used to a WW2 trek when we ended up in here in a cute little bar in a disused tube tunnel….. Roseanna is spark out”
“Yes according to her timeline she should wake soon and you can see if you can stop her causing the rift. Right got to go babes I have Leonardo on the C.O.T.A.S.”
“Okay Merl’s say high to him and Gail for me ” Morgarna lit another cigarette and finished her drink, as she helped herself to a packet of crisps Roseanna stirred in her sleep”
The two women were sitting in a cosy little café just up the road from the bar having a hearty breakfast full fat and all the trimmings.
“Right” said Morgarna with a mouthful of sausage and egg, ” according to Merlin’s notes you woke up in the bar then came here for breakfast….then spent the day researching black holes, knight templar TVs and Spanish houses! “
“Yes! What a mix no wonder I caused such a calamity ” finishing her meal Roseanna drank her tea. Looking at her phone the alarm said ‘research’.
“We need to get back to the cottage and go through all the books again I guess?”
“That’s about the size of it girly, books did you say books, why not the internet?” Morgarna asked.
“You’ll see” Roseanna laughed, ” I think you’ll like it is very quaint …just no internet or electricity. Come on I can’t fall asleep in here because it wouldn’t half cause a stir when you jumped! “
Later after they had gone back to the bar and Roseanna had fallen asleep the Anomaly appeared and Morgarna jumped.
Landing in a clearing Morgarna looked around and saw a single story stone house with a wooden door and trees growing out the roof, the dwelling looked somewhat abandoned.
As she approached the building she could smell fresh coffee, opening the door she was pleasantly surprised by the welcoming interior. It was warm and cosy and there were hug books everywhere. Books about science, herbs, cooking, space, Spain, blackholes, Night Templars,sourcery and black magic. Books on the tables books on the sofa, the floor and all open on specific pages. Roseanna looked up from the book she was pawing over, “Coffee Morgarna” she asked.
Roseanna was busy reading while Morgarna was looking at the trees growing in what had been the kitchen. It was a glorious place and it had a great feel to it. She took her scanner and checked the place out. It all seemed perfect. Checking exactly where and when they were she discovered that they were deep in a Forrest in Wales and the year was 1800. Well that explains there being no electricity or internet. Fishing in her bag she got out her cigarettes and lighter and a bottle of red…”Roseanna have you got any glasses I have a very cheeky Cabernet Sauvignon…. Roseanna??”
No answer so Morgarna walked back into the main room.
What she saw was not what she was expecting….the whole room was in flux the books were literally flying around and hitting eachother there were words everywhere and they were fighting and interlocking. Roseanna was sat on the sofa in a trance.
Cigarette firmly gripped between her lips Morgarna assessed the situation! She could see at a glance at least three timerifts floating around. And, yes there in the corner a time entity and it was making straight for Roseanna….”Oh! No you don’t you big shit!” Morgarna muttered through gritted teeth and cigarette. Steadily she lined up her scanner with the entity and changed the settings to containment. Without alerting it to her presence she sent a beam towards it. It stopped dead inches from Rosanna’s head, screaming, hissing and spitting, it was furious! With her free hand Morgarna opened the clinder she had ready and slowly pulled the entity along the containment beam, into the clinder, slamming the lid she locked it and hit the button that took it straight back to Merlin at the lab.
The words and books now turned their attention towards Morgarna, they headed for her like a swarm of bees.
The air was freezing and Morgarna could hear voices and sounds from the other side of each of the time rifts all closing in on her like the books and the words which were now hitting out and clawing at her.
Suddenly one of the books knocked the bottle of wine out of her hand and smashed it on the floor!
As the luscious red liquid spilt everywhere Morgarna not best please,infact she was very angry. With an annoyed wave of her hand all the wine was back in the bottle( which was whole again) with poise she sideswiped at least ten books sending them smashing into the wall taking many of the angry and aggressive words with them!
Quickly while she had the upper hand she turned the scanner over and hit the seal button. Aiming it at the time rifts she closed them all off one by one….the room became silent and the warmth and cosiness returned. With a wave of her hand Morgarna sent all the errant words back into their respective books.
The room was back to normal apart from the books all being in a pile on the floor. Morgarna looked at herself in the mirror and saw the blooded and messed up state she was in. The mirror began to shake. “No you don’t ” she said quickly, pointing her scanner at the mirror she sealed it…. “Nothing is coming through that now” she said to herself.
“Babes… Rosanna ! Wake up babes we need some glasses!”
Later after the bottle of wine was finished Morgarna filled Roseanna in on what had happened…
“It was the books they were possessed somehow an entity from another time zone got in here and caused multiple time rifts which you kept falling through while traveling around in your lucid dreams”
Roseanna was impressed, “So the trap, the doors and meeting you and causing the black hole time rift…. wasn’t my fault??”
“No babes not at all…. Hang on Roseanna your looking tired….can you get yourself back to Merlin and Gail? I fancy a Chinese takeaway, I’ll be right behind you “
Roseanna lay down and closed her eyes after half an hour while Morgarna tied up and made sure everything was safe and normal .
Roseanna woke up back at the lab Gail handed her a cup of tea and Merlin looked from his computer and said….”hey there Rosie all is good all the rifts and your blackhole are all sealed!”
Roseanna looked up at Merlin, she sipped her tea, where is Morgarna?”
Merlin coughed…. “She’ll be here soon , she’s had to make a detour.” The look Gail shot at Merlin was not lost on Roseanna .
As Roseanna disappeared the Anomaly appeared and as ever Morgarna jumped. Her head filled with thoughts of a bath and a Chinese takeaway.
She was not best pleased as she landed with a bum in a dark enclosure filled with a collection of skeleton bones.
Skeletons – (Halloween)
“Merlin you total shit” she shouted to absolutely no one!
A cluster of Halloween Nonets .
One upon a dark, cold Halloween
Monsters grew on the face of a
Most beautiful fairy Queen
At her eyes they clustered
Magic of black Faye
All souls mustered
The Fairy
Queen to
Save.
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She was kind and gentle, she was fair
Known for her red eyes and black hair
Dark,sad secrets she must keep
If you knew them you’d weep
She must never love
Due to a curse
From above
Vampire
She
Trick or treat the children love to play
As dark falls on all hallows day
Knock on doors and run away
Ghosts and ghouls ask for sweets
What tricks will they play
On you on All
Hallows
Day.
#TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge: #Poet’s choice
Acrostic Autumn.
All the leaves dance, swirling down
Undulating in the breeze to the ground
Tumbling rumbling scratching sound
Urgent creatures search their stores underground.
Misty mornings, chilly nights,
New season, harvest moon and witches flights.
🌑🌑🕸️🕸️🕷️🕷️.
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS October 30, 2021. BOO!
Hello it’s late Saturday evening and I am playing catch up …. I promise I shall get round to reading everyone’s entries asap! Anyway I digress it’s time for LindaGHill’s SoCs.
Linda’s prompt this week is : Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “boo.” Find a word with the letters “boo” in it or use “boo” as is and base your post on it. Enjoy!
Boo
Blood curdling screams rip the night
Owls hoot and we take fright
Open graves empty of their captive souls.
🦇🕷️🕸️🌌🌑🕷️🦇🕸️
Boom
Blood thirsty crawlers
Open your bedroom door
Offering you no mercy
Monsters come to getcha.
Not really but it fits 🎃🎃🎃🎃🐈
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 81: (JACK) in the A rhyme line.
Streams of burning lanterns named Jack.
Ghosts and ghouls flighing through the night.
Skeletons dance with happy sprites.
Fashion for the undead on track.
The New Orange is truly Black.
It is the dead end of the year
Long dark evenings full of fear
Dark witch stirs her bubbling cauldron
Pumpkin soup all laced with saffron
Shes so pleased Halloween is here.
THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY DÉCIMA CHALLENGE.
One-Liner Wednesday.
Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.
Running for life.
Running for Life
Step after step I drag myself through the rain
Blind to all around me , my mind closed to the pangs of pain.
Fear, hatred and panic screaming in my head, loathing coursing in my veins.
Step after blooded step, I run and yet it is gaining.
I stumble and fall , legs and arms grazed I crawl no point in complaining.
Hot breath on my neck I shudder in fear I smell his rank sweat as he draws near.
I feel his claws scrape at my flesh, I loose a scream of primal fear.
Ripping at my dress and hair I run for my life, to look over my shoulder I don’t dare.
No choices left to me, naught I can do . I stand and face the beast for death I prepare.
Eyes red as the devil, pure evil it seems, closing on me, my worst of dreams.
Caught in his clutches, mercy is not on the cards, so I beg for divine intervention.
His nostrils flaring, baring his fangs letting me live is not his intention.
Finally all I can do is fall on my knees and pray , why must this horror be my last of day.
Suddenly after a thunderous noise a white flash as lightening carved him in half God be praised.
Broken and bleeding I lay in the mud,my life slipping out of me no fight left no more……..
willowdot21 
