For Halloween there used to be
A lot of apple bobbing
But now it's likely you will see
The children going robbing
A trick or treat they'll promise you
The choice is quite absurd
Give sweets or suffer eggs and glue
Blackmail's an ugly word
They'll say they're wearing fancy dress
One has a plastic hat
The rest are just a dreadful mess
In bits of this and that
The only people who agree
We need this on these isles
Are sweet shop owners on a spree
And local paedophiles!
Please tell me honestly what you think, good or bad.
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Boffo!
Yikes!
I'm writing our PM and pleading for immigration reform!
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Interesting piece.
Indeed something brought
forth to bring a smile.
Alot of people agree to disagree
I myself, went trick or treating.
Although I didnt find the 6 ft
blonde hair blue eyed hunk I was seeking
but instead got five 3 Muskateer and nuts
covered in chocolate...well then,
maybe i did get my treat after all.
Thanks for the read
Love
Passionspromise
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"That'll do, pig."
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I don't agree with this poem at all There are a bunch of dumb as**s who ruin it, but there are also alot of things that go on that are still "wholesome" and more traditional fun.
My kids and I host a little party and the neighborhood kids come over and play games, dress up, eat candy - the works. Have little costume contest etc, but then, it is easy to get annoyed when you see little punks with the 'scraps' for costumes and all that. But don't be to cynical - for every holiday there are those who enjoy, and those who destroy.
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Ah but you are an American
Trick-or-Treating is your tradition. We don't get American style Halloweens we just get a few teenage thugs who have seen it on TV and think "Free Food".
There are a whole raft of traditional ways to celebrate Halloween in England and trick-or-treating isn't one of them. That's why the line "on these isles" is there. -
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Well I'm sorry if I came across rude, you really do write very well, hope it goes better for you in the future
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Not rude at all
I love Halloween myself, I just don't love the little s***s who come round pretending to have dressed up. Or those who don't bother asking for sweets because throwing eggs is more fun! -
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Wains in Scotland have gone round the houses "guising" for generations. In parts of England, November 4th is known as "Mischief Night" - folk aren't even given the opportunity of offering a treat, and yet they're liable to find their front doorknob tied to their neighbour's or their gates removed, or a firework thrown into their garden; I remember seeing a gang of kids pretending to brace a rope across a road - it was at night, and there was no rope, but all that a road-user could see was two groups of people on either side of the road seemingly taking the strain in a tug o' war.
The American tradition of trick-or-treat has its origins in Irish Halloween practices, so in fact you could say that it was a tradition that was making its way back across the Atlantic.
We Brits lost much of our traditions during the Industrial Revolution, when populations moved from countryside to town. Traditions from displaced populations (the Irish famine, the Highland Clearances, etc) survived more readily in the (former) colonies.
But I agree, it does now seem irksome that America is colonising us via our children - trick-or-treat, proms, school yearbooks, baseball caps, and so on...
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