Poetry Trick or Treat: Halloween Haiku
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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!
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!
trick or treat: pumpkins
Date: 2012-10-31 11:26 am (UTC)Re: trick or treat: pumpkins
Date: 2012-10-31 01:17 pm (UTC)not too flat, oval, or round
I like the odd ones
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Date: 2012-11-01 12:01 am (UTC)slice in a smile, ear to ear
who needs a head
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Date: 2012-11-01 12:09 am (UTC)gouged, gutted, set alight - the
pumpkin only smiles.
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Date: 2012-11-01 01:11 am (UTC)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
Trick or Treat: Bus
Date: 2012-10-31 01:13 pm (UTC)Re: Trick or Treat: Bus
Date: 2012-10-31 01:34 pm (UTC)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!
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From:Three Guesses What Kind of -bus I thought of :)
Date: 2012-11-01 01:16 am (UTC)on my lips but looks sweet on
yours: may I taste them?
Trick or Treat: Tea
Date: 2012-10-31 01:18 pm (UTC)Re: Trick or Treat: Tea
Date: 2012-10-31 01:45 pm (UTC)with milk, sweetness, or spices.
Warm hands, self, and thoughts.
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Date: 2012-10-31 02:53 pm (UTC)to steep my way through the tin --
what to show for it?
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Date: 2012-11-01 01:19 am (UTC)leave a little for the pot.
respect the small gods.
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Date: 2012-10-31 01:26 pm (UTC)Re: Conversations/exchanges with the dead/ancestral spirits.
Date: 2012-10-31 02:55 pm (UTC)i cover all the mirrors
to block her visits.
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Date: 2012-10-31 07:47 pm (UTC)But you forget we used to
Fumble just like you."
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Date: 2012-10-31 11:58 pm (UTC)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?"
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Date: 2012-11-01 12:18 am (UTC)so obsessed with the words of
we dead? Focus on living
your own lives. At the very
least get your quotes correct.
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Date: 2012-11-01 01:21 am (UTC)listening to my chatter?"
"I'm dead: gossip's slow."
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From:Trick or Treat!
Date: 2012-11-01 12:00 am (UTC)Re: Trick or Treat: Monster Costumes
Date: 2012-11-01 12:05 am (UTC)do you think this human
costume's silly
And on the other hand :)
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Date: 2012-11-01 05:11 pm (UTC)aim for well-groomed and wealthy -
robe, sceptre, and crown.
It wouldn't do to show my
monstrous thoughts on the outside.
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Date: 2012-11-01 08:44 pm (UTC)but you don't see the monster
in costume all year
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Date: 2012-11-01 01:07 am (UTC)Re: Trick or treat: CIDER
Date: 2012-11-01 02:24 am (UTC)cooking vindaloo:
cider melding with cumin.
the velvety sauce
coats the chicken bones.
there's enough for the living
and also our dead.
(This is the only foody icon I have *sheepish grin* )
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Date: 2012-11-01 05:04 am (UTC)Trick or treat: gateways!
no subject
Date: 2012-11-01 08:53 am (UTC)Liminal spaces,
in between each here and now,
hiding mysteries.
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