Poems & Posters to Jazz Up Your Halloween Party

Get Spooky With Halloween Games

BOO!! It's the season to scare - To be scared - To confess to the thrill of causing a scream! Party with friends and relatives ~ Halloween games are best with turned-down lights and scary music to set the scene! My favorite Halloween game is to have prizes for the scariest costume, creepiest poem and the poster that best captures the idea of Halloween. ~ Exchange gifts of scary posters, homemade Halloween cookies, books of Halloween poems, games, posters.


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Photo courtesy Photos8. All poems are by Emily Dickinson

Halloween Poems Are By Emily Dickinson American Poet 1830 ~ 1886

Poem titles are created by me for this Halloween fun, unless shown in quotes.


One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted -
One need not be a House -
The Brain has Corridors - surpassing
Material Place -

Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
External Ghost
Than its interior Confronting -
That Cooler Host.

Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,
The Stones a'chase -
Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounter -
In lonesome Place -

Ourself behind ourself, concealed -
Should startle most -
Assassin hid in our Apartment
Be Horror's least.

The Body - borrows a Revolver -
He bolts the Door -
O'erlooking a superior spectre -
Or More -

It's Boiling Wheel ~ A Goblin ~ From Dungeon ~

'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,
That nearer, every Day,
Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel
Until the Agony

Toyed coolly with the final inch
Of your delirious Hem -
And you dropt, lost,
When something broke -
And let you from a Dream -

As if a Goblin with a Gauge -
Kept measuring the Hours -
Until you felt your Second
Weigh, helpless, in his Paws -

And not a Sinew - stirred - could help,
And sense was setting numb -
When God - remembered - and the Fiend
Let go, then, Overcome -

As if your Sentence stood - pronounced -
And you were frozen led
From Dungeon's luxury of Doubt
To Gibbets, and the Dead -

And when the Film had stitched your eyes
A Creature gasped "Reprieve"!
Which Anguish was the utterest - then -
To perish, or to live?

Back in Summertime, A Child Asked, "What Time of Year Is Halloween??!!"

The name - of it - is "Autumn" -
The hue - of it - is Blood -
An Artery - upon the Hill -
A Vein - along the Road -

Great Globules - in the Alleys -
And Oh, the Shower of Stain -
When Winds - upset the Basin -
And spill the Scarlet Rain -

It sprinkles Bonnets - far below -
It gathers ruddy Pools -
Then - eddies like a Rose - away -
Upon Vermilion Wheels -

To make One's Toilette - after Death
Has made the Toilette cool
Of only Taste we cared to please
Is difficult, and still -

That's easier - than Braid the Hair -
And make the Boddice gay -
When Eyes that fondled it are wrenched
By Decalogues - away -

A Prick Or Two?

"The Blood is more showy than Breath
But cannot dance as well -"

Frankenstein - Nobody Does It Better

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It Was A Dark and Stormy Night

He fumbles at your Soul
As Players at the Keys
Before they drop full Music on -
He stuns you by Degrees -

Prepares your brittle Nature
For the ethereal Blow
By fainter Hammers - further heard -
Then nearer - Then so - slow -

Your Breath - has time to straighten -
Your Brain - to bubble cool -
Deals One - Imperial Thunderbolt -
That scalps your naked soul -

When Winds take Forests in their Paws -
The Universe - is still -

Unit, like Death, for Whom?

True, like the Tomb,
Who tells no secret
Told to Him --
The Grave is strict --
Tickets admit
Just two - the Bearer -
And the Borne -
And seat - just One -
The Living - tell -
The Dying - but a Syllable -
The Coy Dead - None -
No Chatter - here - no tea -
So Babbler, and Bohea - stay there -
But Gravity - and Expectation - and Fear -
A tremor just, that All's not sure.

It's All In The Punch

This punch should be served at every Halloween Party

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There we were, asleep ~ I thought ~

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -
Untouched my Morning
And untouched by Noon -
Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection -
Rafter of satin,
And Roof of stone.

Light laughs the breeze
In her Castle above them -
Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear,
Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence -
Ah, what sagacity perished here!

Midnight Flight

"He likes a boggy Acre - "

What is it? Can you guess?

A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides -
You may have met him - Did you not
His notice sudden is -

The Grass divides as with a Comb -
A spotted shaft is seen,
And then it closes at your Feet
And opens further on -

He likes a Boggy Acre -
A Floor too cool for Corn -
But when a Boy and Barefoot -
I more than once at Noon
Have passed I thought a Whip Lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled And was gone -

Several of Nature's People
I know, and they know me
I feel for them a transport
Of Cordiality --

But never met this Fellow
Attended, or alone
Without a tighter Breathing
And Zero at the Bone.

Whistling in The Graveyard & Eating Your (Wax Candy) Lips

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Hanged under the moon, by photos8

Have A Safe Halloween!

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Scared! Now That We're In The Mood....

Share with us here your ideas for a Halloween Party...I can't wait to see..

  • Treasures-By-Brenda Oct 23, 2011 @ 3:49 pm | delete
    Halloween is creeping up on us quickly. We put our our chains and we've been letting the spiders have their way on the porch...
  • Retro_Loco Jul 13, 2011 @ 5:26 pm | delete
    Fun lens on Halloween poems and posters! I love those big, spooky eyeballs and kitty on the fence! I'm ready for autumn and Halloween!
  • ZablonMukuba Oct 12, 2010 @ 1:48 pm | delete
    nice photos, i like the cat photo and the hanged man,
  • W3i-RK Oct 12, 2010 @ 10:24 am | delete
    Excellent lens for getting people in the Halloween spirit. Some of those posters are just eerie. Love that scare factor at Halloween, though. My new lens Free Halloween Screensavers has some creepy images for your screen. Its like getting rotating posters for your desktop with spooky sound effects. I love the poems - would be cool to try to work those into a Halloween screensaver someday.
  • windygig Oct 1, 2010 @ 4:26 pm | delete
    I confess. I love scary. The dark poems are perfect. The eyeballs watching...loved it all.
  • WhiteOak50 Aug 20, 2010 @ 6:08 am | delete
    Very good lens! I am lensrolling it over to my gothic lens. Thank you so much for blessing Hauntings in Georgia! It was greatly appreciated.
  • LauraSchofield Aug 12, 2010 @ 2:19 pm | delete
    What a great collection! Spooky stories, old horror movies and decorations are my fond childhood memories of this holiday. I'm bookmarking this to come back and read over candlelight (and computer monitor light!) with my kids in October. Thanks!
  • paperfacets Feb 4, 2010 @ 1:23 pm | delete
    Lens rolled with my poster Halloween. 5*
  • Evelyn_Saenz Oct 6, 2009 @ 9:04 pm | delete
    Very scary. I can see that you're in the Halloween mood. Boooooo!
  • momto4 Oct 6, 2009 @ 6:35 pm | delete
    Great lens! I loved all the pictures and I enjoyed the poems. 5*'s!
  • Michey Sep 28, 2009 @ 11:59 am | delete
    Hi! This lens is a lot of fun
    Regards
    Michey
  • Aidan Sep 27, 2009 @ 6:04 pm | delete
    Boo! Very scary.

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