Halloween
by Mac Hammond
The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top
And carves out the round stemmed lid,
The hole of which allows the hand to go
In to pull the gooey mess inside, out –
The walls scooped clean with a spoon.
A grim design decided on, that afternoon,
The eyes are the first to go,
Isosceles or trapezoid, the square nose,
The down-turned mouth with three
Hideous teeth and, sometimes,
Round ears. At dusk it’s
Lighted, the room behind it dark.
Outside, looking in, it looks like a
Pumpkin, it looks like ripeness
Is all. Kids come, beckoned by
Fingers of shadows on leaf-strewn lawns
To trick or treat. Standing at the open
Door, the sculptor, a warlock, drops
Penny candies into their bags, knowing
The message of winter: only the children,
Pretending to be ghosts, are real.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Ocean of Forms by Rabindranath Tagore
- Федор Сологуб – Так нежен был внезапный поцелуй
- My Modern Surrealist Mind by Shaunna Harper
- Politics poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Эмиль Верхарн – Воскресное утро
- Song Of Jasoda
- Валерий Брюсов – Г.Г. Бахману (Вся красота тебе доступна)
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- Breaking and Entering by Ralph Angel
- Paradise Regained: The Third Book poem – John Milton poems
- The Tree and the Marble by Mike Yuan
- Kore by Robert Creeley
- Among The Narcissi by Sylvia Plath
- The Sound Of Music -a Ghazal by Umamaheswari Anandane
- To A Young Girl by William Butler Yeats
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
