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
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Тополь
- I have no complaint by Sappho
- In Honour Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Song Maker by Sara Teasdale
- The Servant When He Reigneth by Rudyard Kipling
- A reason for you by Pritha halder
- O Fool by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ellen Irwin Or The Braes Of Kirtle by William Wordsworth
- Don’t know the answer by Vinko Kalinic
- Николай Языков – Ау
- The First Thrush by Mary Gilmore
- Umbrella by Mike Yuan
- Владимир Высоцкий – Случай на таможне
- Алишер Навои – Поучительные заветы старости
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).
