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Since today is an open slot on our These Hallowed Days week, the admins are opening it up for trick or treating, poetry-style. If you start a new comment thread on this post with the subject line 'trick or treat: [your prompt]', the POETREE community is invited to write and reply to that thread with haiku inspired by your prompt that fits the category of 'trick' or 'treat'. We hope you enjoy exchanging haiku!

Re: trick or treat: pumpkins

Date: 2012-10-31 01:17 pm (UTC)
untonuggan: A photo looking up at an autumn tree canopy (autumn trees)
From: [personal profile] untonuggan
select the best one
not too flat, oval, or round
I like the odd ones

Re: trick or treat: pumpkins

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Re: trick or treat: pumpkins

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Re: trick or treat: pumpkins

Date: 2012-11-01 12:01 am (UTC)
alee_grrl: Railroad tracks through an autumn forrest (autumn rails)
From: [personal profile] alee_grrl
Scoop out the insides
slice in a smile, ear to ear
who needs a head

Re: trick or treat: pumpkins

Date: 2012-11-01 12:09 am (UTC)
raze: A man and a rooster. (Default)
From: [personal profile] raze
An optimist squash:
gouged, gutted, set alight - the
pumpkin only smiles.

Re: trick or treat: pumpkins

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Re: trick or treat: pumpkins

Date: 2012-11-01 01:11 am (UTC)
cadenzamuse: Cross-legged girl literally drawing the world around her into being (Default)
From: [personal profile] cadenzamuse
I don't want to steal
you, orange and live-wired in
to autumn's colors

as leaves lay dying they show
their truest selves underneath

but pumpkins show true
when most round and full of life
cut open, light shines through

Re: Trick or Treat: Bus

Date: 2012-10-31 01:34 pm (UTC)
spiralsheep: Flowers (skywardprodigal Cog Flowers)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
"Bus" is slang for "kiss". ;-P

Our older folk claimed
kissing is in season when
gorse is in flower.

The trick is that gorse is almost always in flower, so if it's clement enough weather to be outside looking at gorse bushes then two people can choose to make a treat, hee!

Re: Trick or Treat: Bus

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Three Guesses What Kind of -bus I thought of :)

Date: 2012-11-01 01:16 am (UTC)
cadenzamuse: Cross-legged girl literally drawing the world around her into being (Default)
From: [personal profile] cadenzamuse
Lipstick tastes waxy
on my lips but looks sweet on
yours: may I taste them?

Re: Trick or Treat: Tea

Date: 2012-10-31 01:45 pm (UTC)
spiralsheep: Flowers (skywardprodigal Cog Flowers)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
Leaves infused to taste;
with milk, sweetness, or spices.
Warm hands, self, and thoughts.

Re: Trick or Treat: Tea

Date: 2012-10-31 02:53 pm (UTC)
zirconium: photo of Greek style coffee, Larnaca, October 2011 (coffee in Cyprus)
From: [personal profile] zirconium
it's taken two years
to steep my way through the tin --
what to show for it?

Re: Trick or Treat: Tea

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Re: Trick or Treat: Tea

Date: 2012-11-01 01:19 am (UTC)
cadenzamuse: Cross-legged girl literally drawing the world around her into being (Default)
From: [personal profile] cadenzamuse
my mother showed me:
leave a little for the pot.
respect the small gods.

Re: Trick or Treat: Tea

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Re: Trick or Treat: Tea

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spiralsheep: Flowers (skywardprodigal Cog Flowers)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
Conversations/exchanges with the dead/ancestral spirits (that should be a flexible enough theme to give challengees some scope). :-)
zirconium: my hands, sewing a chemo cap liner (care caps hands)
From: [personal profile] zirconium
she said, "wrong lipstick."
i cover all the mirrors
to block her visits.
primeideal: Multicolored sideways eight (infinity sign) (Default)
From: [personal profile] primeideal
"Things makes sense from here--
But you forget we used to
Fumble just like you."
raze: A man and a rooster. (Default)
From: [personal profile] raze
I'm not proud to say:
I screamed when I saw the ghost
A hollow-eyed frown

His only response
Then: "Why do I frighten you?"
I had to think, said,

"I suppose you make
me contemplate my own death
hence my discomfort."

Saying it aloud
seemed rude; I blushed, but he laughed.
"My lady, I can

think of nothing so
terrifying as living.
Perhaps I should scream?"
alee_grrl: A kitty peeking out from between a stack of books and a cup of coffee. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alee_grrl
Why are you living
so obsessed with the words of
we dead? Focus on living

your own lives. At the very
least get your quotes correct.


cadenzamuse: Cross-legged girl literally drawing the world around her into being (Default)
From: [personal profile] cadenzamuse
"Grandpa, are you still
listening to my chatter?"
"I'm dead: gossip's slow."

Trick or Treat!

Date: 2012-11-01 12:00 am (UTC)
raze: A man and a rooster. (Default)
From: [personal profile] raze
But what do the MONSTERS wear to costume parties?

Re: Trick or Treat: Monster Costumes

Date: 2012-11-01 12:05 am (UTC)
alee_grrl: Railroad tracks through an autumn forrest (autumn rails)
From: [personal profile] alee_grrl
skin's a bit loose
do you think this human
costume's silly

Edited Date: 2012-11-01 12:07 am (UTC)

And on the other hand :)

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Re: And on the other hand :)

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Re: Trick or Treat: Monster Costumes

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Re: Trick or Treat!

Date: 2012-11-01 05:11 pm (UTC)
spiralsheep: Evil commandeers the costume budget (chronographia Servalan Evil Costume)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
King of Hearts costume -
aim for well-groomed and wealthy -
robe, sceptre, and crown.

It wouldn't do to show my
monstrous thoughts on the outside.

Re: Trick or Treat!

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Date: 2012-11-01 08:44 pm (UTC)
avia: Text, blue letters on a tree trunk: "I have only a beast's heart". (only a beast's heart)
From: [personal profile] avia
i wear my own face
but you don't see the monster
in costume all year

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Trick or treat: CIDER

Date: 2012-11-01 01:07 am (UTC)
cadenzamuse: Cross-legged girl literally drawing the world around her into being (Default)
From: [personal profile] cadenzamuse
Because it's yummy. :)

Re: Trick or treat: CIDER

Date: 2012-11-01 02:24 am (UTC)
zirconium: picrew of me in sports bra and flowery crop pants (Default)
From: [personal profile] zirconium
[indeed! :-) ]

cooking vindaloo:
cider melding with cumin.
the velvety sauce

coats the chicken bones.
there's enough for the living
and also our dead.


Re: Trick or treat: CIDER

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Re: Trick or treat: CIDER

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Date: 2012-11-01 05:04 am (UTC)
bookblather: A picture of Yomiko Readman looking at books with the text "bookgasm." (Default)
From: [personal profile] bookblather
I do hope I'm not too late...

Trick or treat: gateways!

Date: 2012-11-01 08:53 am (UTC)
spiralsheep: Einstein writing Time / Space OTP on a blackboard (fridgepunk Time / Space OTP)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
Never too late, as the saying goes. :-)

Liminal spaces,
in between each here and now,
hiding mysteries.

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