Halloween Poetry for Children
We Love Halloween
Halloween is another one of my favorite times of the year. Our house has always been a fun- filled spooky, decorated, hilarious, big party during this season.
With such a big family from newborn to adult, each Halloween corner of the house and yard always held a great surprise.
We'd play lots of games, tell stories, play scary jokes on each other, have costume contests, eat holloween decorated goodies and sooooooooooooo much more...
Here are a handful of Halloween poems for children, to share and enjoy:
Halloween
Hallowe'en is a happy hour,
A time for sport and fun,
When witches show their mystic power
And fairy faith is begun;
A time for merry ringing of bells,
For joyous, carefree shout,
When every sign a future tells
And GOOBLINS, too, come out!
The old black cat is then on hand,--
She runs with all the rest,
A wierd and fearsome, queer old band
To frighten every guest;
O join the merry, merry throng
And seek new terror's thrill,--
The fairy folk will do no harm,
The witches work no ill.
Hallowe'en will pass away--
It leaves at break of dawn,
And as the sun brings in the day
The fairy folk are gone!
No witch will then your future speak,
With waiting treasures told;
O come away, their presence seek
And future joys be behold!
O come away; 'tis Hallowe'en
With queer things all about;
Such thrilling things may now be seen,
O come with merry shout!
Halloween
Tonight is the night
When dead leaves fly
Like witches on switches
Across the sky,
When elf and sprite
Flit through the night
On a moony sheen.
Tonight is the night
When leaves make a sound
Like a gnome in his home
Under the ground,
When spooks and trolls
Creep out of holes
Mossy green.
Tonight is the night
When pumpkins stare
Throught sheaves and leaves
Everywhere,
When ghoul and ghost
And goblin host
Dance round their queen.
It's Hallowe'en!
Harry Behn (1898 - 1973)
This Is Halloween
Goblins on the doorstep,
Phantoms in the air,
Owls on witches' gateposts,
Giving stare for stare.
Cats on flying broomsticks,
Bats against the moon,
Stirring round of fate-cakes
With a solemn spoon.
Whirling apple parings,
Figures draped in sheets,
Dodging, disappearing,
Up and down the streets.
Jack-o'-lanterns grinning,
Shadows on a screen,
Shrieks and starts of laughter -
This is Halloween!
Dorothy Brown Thompson
Halloween
I'm not afraid on Halloween
Because my Mother said
I should not fear those funny things
But laugh at them instead.
For orange faces in the night
That stare with eyes so wide,
Are only pumpkins on a porch
With candlelight inside.
And there are no such things as ghosts...
Those figures shining white,
Are only children just like me
Wrapped up in sheets so tight.
I do not fear a single thing
On Halloween you see,
Because I know they really are
Not what they seem to be.
For ghosts and goblins, witches, spooks,
And other scary folks
We hear about on Halloween
Are really only jokes.
Cora May Preble (1893 - 1976)
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