SCIFAIKU FOR HALLOWEEN/SAMHAIN in Response to One Deep Breath Prompt of 10/29/07

The Chariot in The Halloween Tarot

The prompt this week at One Deep Breath is “change.” October 31st marks a big change with All Hallow’s Eve and then the subsequent All Soul's Day. It is also New Year’s (Samhain) in my pagan tradition. So, as I hurry off to upstate New York to visit another retirement residence I’m interested in, I thought I’d leave you with some of my old scifaiku (haiku-like poems with scfifi/fantasy/horror themes) for Halloween/Samhain. I seriously doubt I’ll have any computer access at all during the three days I’m away, so I may not be able to make any posts, or check emails or comments until November second.

ghosts roar out
of the mercury waves
beached on old earth

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this new world’s fire
refuses to burn witches
kindred spirits

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bog fires
the fleshless bones of dancers
mark their own rhythms

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line of ghouls – Fresh Death Sale!

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hide in the caves, child
the Dragon is hungry
Green Cheese Moon

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an ego for lunch
hungry again in one hour
psi-vamp on the prowl

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snatching a soul
through the veil
dessert

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through your ghostly form
my sorrowing reach

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a nine-way kiss
takes some getting used to
hydra lover

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only dust
she sweeps where his soul
briefly danced

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immortal prison
your soul in the keep
of my dark heart

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the dark refuses
to hurry
a sun always rises

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‘til next time, keep dreaming,

Roswila
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
****If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”)****My other blogs ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL and ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT.