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
- Алексей Толстой – Сватовство
- How Soon Hath Time poem – John Milton poems
- Heel & Toe To The End by William Carlos Williams
- Rain Falls
- Teignmouth: “Some Doggerel,” Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- September by Ted Hughes
- Pamela Griffiths – Pamela Griffiths
- You are coming! by Preeth Nambiar
- Moony Affair by Satish Verma
- Days and Nights by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest by William Shakespeare
- Николай Заболоцкий – Портрет
- Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame by William Shakespeare
- Jobless by Rashmi
- Владимир Высоцкий – Отпустите мне грехи
Some external links:
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).
