TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT
Tonight is the night
when dead leaves fly
like witches on switches
across the sky.
When elf and sprite flit
through the night on a moony sheen.
Tonight is the night
when leaves make a sound
like a gnome in his home under the ground.
When spooks and trolls
creep out of the holes,
all mossy and green.
Tonight is the night
when pumpkins stare
through sheaves and leaves everywhere.
When ghoul and ghost and goblin
host dance round their Queen.
IT'S HALLOWEEN!!!
HAVE A HAPPY & SAFE HALLOWEEN!!!
~Harry Behn~
IT'S HALLOWEEN
It`s Halloween! It`s Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can`t be seen
on any other night:
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels,
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms.
~Author Unknown~
SKELETON PARADE
The skeletons are out tonight,
they march about the street,
With bony bodies, bony heads
and bony hands and feet.
Bony bony bony bones
with nothing in between,
Up and down and all around
they march on Halloween.
~Jack Prelutsky~
PUMPKIN
We bought a fat orange pumpkin,
The plumpest sort they sell.
We neatly scooped the inside out
and only left the shell.
We carved a funny funny-face
of silly shape and size,
A pointy nose,
a jagged mouth and two enormous eyes.
We set it in a window
and we put a candle in,
Then lit it up
for all to see Our jack-o-lantern grin.
~Author Unknown~
THE NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN.
The Harvest moon fills the sky
A wicked witch goes flying by
Ghosts and goblins..skeleton's too.
Moaning and groaning, waiting for you
Black cats prowl the graveyard plots
Witches cook in cauldron pots
Cemetery ghouls roam the ground
Not one unopened grave is found
Tombstones are an eerie sight
Shadows dance in full moon light
The haunted house on the hill
Walk in there and you get a chill
Jack-o-lanterns eyes so bright
Trick or Treaters scream in fright
It's a time like you've never seen
Tonight's the night of Halloween.
~By Sandi VanderSluis/ Corky Ferguson. Copyright 1999~
THE GOBLIN
There`s a goblin as green as a goblin can be.
Who is sitting outside and is waiting for me.
When he knocked on my door and said softly,
"Come play!"
I answered,"No thank you, now please,go away!"
But the goblin as green as a goblin can be.
Is still sitting outside and is waiting for me.
Trick or treat, trick or treat,
give us something good to eat.
Give us candy, give us cake,
give us something sweet to take.
Give us cookies, fruit and gum,
hurry up and give us some.
You had better do it quick
or we`ll surely play a trick.
Trick or treat, trick or treat,
give us something good to eat.
~Author Unknown~
Q: What do goblins mail home while on vacation?
A: Ghost-Cards!
Q: Where did the goblin throw the football?
A: Over the ghoul line.
Q: What do you call a goblin
who gets too close to a bonfire?
A: A toasty ghosty.
BOBBING FOR APPLES
Watch us bobbing for an apple,
For an apple apple apple,
But no apple apple apple,
Not an apple can I get.
Oh I cannot catch an apple,
Not one apple apple apple
Through my sister got an apple,
All I got was soaking wet!
~Author Unknown~
HAUNTED HOUSE
There`s a house upon the hilltop
we will not go inside,
For that is where the witches live,
Where ghosts and goblins hide.
Tonight they have their party,
All the lights are burning bright,
But oh we will not go inside
The haunted house tonight.
The demons there are whirling
and the spirits swirl about.
They sing their songs to Halloween.
"Come join the fun," they shout.
But we do not want to go there,
so we run with all our might
And oh we will not go inside
The haunted house tonight.
~Author Unknown~
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
It`s late and we are sleepy,
The air is cold and still.
Our jack-o-lantern grins at us
Upon the window sill.
We`re stuffed with cake and candy
And we`ve had a lot of fun,
But now it`s time to go to bed
And dream of all we`ve done.
We`ll dream of ghosts and goblins
And of witches that we`ve seen,
And we`ll dream of trick-or-treating
On this happy Halloween.
~Unknown Author~
AN INVITATION
Let's be spooky. Lets have fun!
We'll scare ourselves before we're done
with ghosts and goblins - winds that howl -
Things that fly and things that prowl.
We'll talk about such creepy stuff
until we both get scared enough
to hear things that we cannot see
and see things that just cannot be.
Let's be spooky - you and me.
~By Bobbi Katz~
GHOST BUS
Underneath the lamp post,
In the middle of the night,
A ghost bus make a silent stop,
A strange and fearful sight.
At the bus top at your corner,
Something big and green climbed down.
It's looking for your bedroom,
And it has searched all over town.
You thought it couldn't find you,
That you were safe and you were sound.
You thought that you could hide,
Where you never could be found.
But now it's almost here,
You know it loves the dark of night.
There's only one thing you can do,
Quick! Turn on the light!
Whew!
~By Joe Wayman~
SONG OF THE WITCHES
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and bling-worms sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Macbeth: IV.i. 10-19; 35-38
~By William Shakespeare~
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL.
At the top of a very steep hill...
Is a very old house that is never still!
In the windows there are many eyes,
You'll hear screams "if you dare" to go by!
If you get as close as you possibly can,
The front door will open, then it will slam!
The one who lives there has never been seen,
Many say, "he is very mean"!
Don't let him catch you...
be as fast as you can,
Or "you'll belong" to the boogeyman!
~By PocketStr~
ADVICE ON HOW
TO SLEEP WELL on HALLOWEEN NIGHT
The thing to remember
when you go to bed
Is hang strings of garlic
high over your head,
So werewolves and vampires
won't come to call.
In fact
you won't get many callers at all
'Cause garlic is smelly,
besides its success
With magical creatures
who visit distress
On humans who read scarey stories at night,
And sleep in their bedrooms
without a night-light.
The thing to remember
when you go to bed
Is putting a cross
at your foot and your head,
'Cause witches and vampire bats
are religious
And touching a sign like a cross
gives them hideous
Goosebumps and warts,
hives, the welts and the itches,
Which nobody likes,
even vampire bats and witches.
But try not to toss or to turn
in your bed.
If you kick off the crosses
you're gonna wake dead.
The thing to remember
when you go to bed
Is watch out for goblins
who munch on your head.
What stops them is water,
so ask for a glass,
Then pour it around
so the goblins can't pass.
Or else make a run
for the bathroom and turn
On the hot and cold faucets
and watch goblins squirm.
As a last chance,
since goblins all fear running streams,
If you don't own a bathroom,
dream water-filled dreams.
So---that's my advice.
Now just turn off the light.
Hope you sleep well the next Halloween Night!
~Author Unknown~
THIS IS HALLOWEEN!
Goblins on the doorstep,
Phantoms in the air,
Owls on witches gateposts
Giving stare for stare,
Cats on flying broomsticks,
Bats against the moon,
Stirrings round of fate-cakes
With a solemn spoon,
Whirling apple parings,
Figures draped in sheets,
Dodging, disappearing,
Up and down the streets,
Jack-o-lanterns grinning,
Shadows on a screen,
Shrieks and starts with laughter
This is Halloween!
~Dorothy Brown Thompson~
PUMPKIN POOP
I started to carve a pumpkin
With my carving knife and scoop.
But the pumpkin got so scared
He took a little poop.
It looked so cute and funny
Just like a candy treat.
So I'm sharing it with you now
Because you're so sweet.
Use candy corn,
and put them into a
little plastic or real pumpkin
and tie the poem to it.
~Author Unknown~
BAT POOP
Furry Little bats,
They don't like cats.
They fly at night,
They are a sight.
They come and go by the moonlight.
So.....
Beware of where you step~
BAT POOP!!!
~Author Unknown~
And here is another poem to use~
BAT POOP
I hear that you've been playing tricks,
So listen, here's the scoop...
I'm running short on candy treats,
So this year you get Bat Poop!!!
Use raisins
and put them in a little bag
and attach this poem to the bag.
(I just use raisins.)
~Author Unknown~
IF ANYONE KNOWS WHO WROTE THESE "POOP POEMS",
PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
HALLOWEEN JOKES.
Q. Why don't witches like to ride their brooms
when they're angry?
A. They're afraid of flying off the handle!
Q. Who did Frankenstein take to the prom?
A. His ghoul friend.
Q. What do ghosts serve for dessert?
A. Ice Scream.
Q. What do witches put on their hair?
A. Scare spray.
Q. Why did the monster eat a light bulb?
A. Because he was in need of a light snack.
Q. What kind of mistakes do spooks make?
A. Boo boos.
Q. Why couldn't Dracula's wife get to sleep?
A. Because of his coffin.
Q: Why should a skeleton
drink 10 glasses of milk a day?
A: It's good for the bones.
Q: What do baby ghosts wear on Halloween?
A: White Pillowcases.
Q: What was the witches' favorite
subject in school?
A: Spelling.
*My HALLOWEEN greetings to send*
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