I had sent messages through the chimney for
the raving raven and witches on their brooms
who blow spells in the sky, for the wicked vampires
with weird taste and pointed teeth.
They came along for supper
with well wrapped waywardly intentions.
I served them chicken soup with spicy feathers
bats stew cooked with sarcasm dished out with a grin.
Party balloons soon deflated,
dark intentions now wrecked,
swiftly all guests escaped faces swollen
“anaphylacticaly” shocked by tasty pink garlic.
Author notes
Starswhispers
A contest entry
- Most Inspiring Contest Hosts for October by ea.
600 points, ended November 11, 2007, 17 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Halloween by Shadow Anonymised.
400 points, ended August 21, 10 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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This was deliciously dark! Am I invited to your next Party? LOL... You have captured the essence of the spirit of Halloween...GREAT WRITE!!!!!
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Of course you are invited... do not forget your epipen for a shot against anaphylactic shock... Thanks for commenting.
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I agree with Amphibolia, it's not scary but the imigry is quite bemusing, it makes me smile more than it gives me chills and shiver however it does give me little goosbumps now and then so it's well written, good job.
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very pretty, well written. not exactly horrific, but lovely.
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Oh you are a nasty witch lol
This was fun and I really enjoyed the read. great metaphors and imagery in this also.
All the best in the contest
Gaylene
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Thank you for the nice comment i was in that kind of cheecky mood last night and tried to make the most of it. I had a special kind of halloween automn season as I manage to have my son going to an excellent fire works display near home and he really enjoyed it we had a wonderfull family outing. Thanks
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This is a lot of fun to read - a very whimsical take on the prompt which incorporates the season of October and a little Sendak as host very well. Never heard of pink garlic - must check that out. Thanks for a sprightly entry!
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Thank you so much for the silver trophy (for symetry they are the one I need the most
so I am very very grateful) especialy I nearly couldn't enter the contest it took me days to find the right idea and to be in the right mood for it as for once I wanted to do something funny.
Well about pink garlic we have a lot in southern France and it has the reputation to be the strongest and tastiest it has as well a light pink colour on the outside when ever i can it is the one i buy as i use garlic extensively in my cooking as well as olive oil.
Thank you again so much this was one of those contest taking me out of my shell. lol
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aha! I use a kind of Italian garlic that is a single bulb, like an onion, that is unlike what I knew in the U.S. I'll have to look for this French kind.
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Is what you use some kind of "shallots" (not sure about the spelling it looks like an onion but long much smaller, quite pink inside and the tast is like an in between garlic and onion. Garlic is very ggod for the blood circulation generating long life
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I use shallots (or green onions as they are also known) in soups but what I am talking about is much bigger and has a dried paper-like outside like a Gladiola corm.
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I see well I do not know that one even after 5 years spent in italy, here we have the traditional garlic whit or pink with a head enveloping many spikes...
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Haha I like this. Kinda made me giggle a little at the end there. I really wasn't expecting that. This is so mean ... and I love it lol. Great write. Though I must ask ... just where did you get the idea for it???
Megan
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