A Halloween Nursery Rhyme

[DieterM]

Halloween this year
turns out a merry eve
with you

All I need is here:
an axe, a saw, a spoon,
and you

Kids knock on the door
– 'Trick or Treat!' – I smile
at you

Face blood-smeared, eyes wild,
I offer cookies made
of you

On the table lies
your scraped out and skinned skull,
and you

gaze through empty eyes,
candles flickering
in you

[hillwalker]

I presume the neighbourhood kiddies have been warned to keep well clear of your home this weekend.
Wickedly amusing.

H

[blank|verse]

Yeah, remind me not to go Trick or Treating in Dieter's neighbourhood. (Dieter or Hannibal?) I like the repetition of 'you' at the end of each stanza; it gives the poem a suitably creepy, obsessive feel.

[symphony]

Please let it just be a pumpkin...please...please...

You have a very nice blog, Dieter. :)

[DieterM]

thanks to you all.
I'm quite a nice bloke.
You have to believe me.
Have to.
And I do love kids –
they have to be small, though,
otherwise they won't fit
into my oven

;-))