Best Samhain Poems

Be still, can you hear the drum, the drum
Hear it beat like a heart in the heavy night
Hold on to your soul, for the dead are come
To look to the living for light

Ashes and sulphur, blood on stone
Lavender, lilies, and roses blown

Out of the mist,...

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Thinner the veil,
Older the year.
Between the worlds
Shadows appear,
 
Straddling the times.
We feel the past
Stamped on our brows.
Nothing will last.
 
Fields are now bare,
Soon comes the cold.
Kindle the flame
That we may hold
 
Space for a while,
Honor the dead,
Thank for the harvest,
Offer the bread.

October 30, 2016...

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The passing of the autumn equinox, and the end of October,
now signal everyone it is the first day in November.
The leaves of the forest are brown, red, and gold.
Trees foretell of the coming of winter’s cold.
A local coven gathers in the early morning moonlight.
They join...

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"Alas, ancient Celtic festival of Samhain; 
When people would light bonfires; 
And wear costumes to ward off ghosts,
Yon fearsome hosts;
Halloween oh! Hallowe'en,
Also known as All halloween, 
All Hallows' Eve, 
All Saints' Eve, 
Celebration observed in several countries 
On 31 October
The eve of the Western Christian...

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Let’s celebrate the thinnest of the veil!
Reunite with long lost family and friends
and take one last chance to make our amends,
on the night the worlds’ barrier is frail.

But when is this magic night to occur?
Some say it’s during Scorpio’s Full Moon
or the sun’s post allows...

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Soon be time for Halloween,
So wear your mask to make them scream.

Pumpkin pie and pumpkin juice,
Trick and treaters on the loose.

Carve your pumpkin big and bright,
To scare away the ghosts tonight.

Be prepared on all saints Eve,
Lock your doors before you leave.

If you scare the ghosts...

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The chantings....
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Within the fog shrouded moments
Of tomorrows unknown day
You wait for something
Something strange....
To mute your path
With these ghostlike things
While as you walk
Along their daunting dreams
Of twisting smiles
And ludicrous scenes....
Caricatures faces
That they always seem
Calling unto your spirit
Enticingly....
As they try to draw you in
Into the corners
Of their...

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SAMHAIN – All Hallow’s Eve

(Anapestic tetrameter)


As the evening approaches and darkness surrounds,
When orb spiders are weaving to capture their prey,
then, all over the country, a madness abounds,
Where abnormal behavior is out on display.

On the streets of the suburb an army descends,
To amuse their weird bones...

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Standing upon centre's stage as the crowd became frenzied amid anticipation 

Wild in abandonment as their naked bodies began to dance within the aisles 

Shouting in revelry this festivity celebrating the end of summers, dawning

Day of the dead with travelers from as far away as...

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Shy copper lashes,
trees mask for the thinning veil;
Samhain ambiance....

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Flame throwing flower held by a scream,
Maniacal laughter, dark fantasy;
Blood on the face of a clown
fresh smile an imprint of a frown;
Nothing is at all what it seems; 
Trick me, treat me
by all means, creep me;
Blessed Be, Blessed Samhain....

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Left then right into a corn maze 
as the Sun flickers on October;
Laughter transforms to screaming 
as we spot a scarecrow, 
a pipe smoking but it’s not lit;
‘Trick me, treat me.’ he says 
‘By all means creep me.
Welcome, this field is not as it seems.
Flashlights...

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In the shifting air
the sweet scent of candy corn
candle wax burning

All doors are open
an ancient mystery lives
I bask in its glow...

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Let the monsters out
on this sacred evening
Let us make love
to our Demons
at the midnight bliss

This is our time
This is our circle
May the Witches be blessed
May the word be
clear and known
Rise, my sisters!

It's all hallows EVE!...

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Draw back the curtains at your wake
To welcome in October
And heartily libation take
Lest the old crows find you sober

Invite your fond familiars in
Each cat and rat and magpie
Ignite your jack-o’-lantern grin
And kiss the moon at midnight

Fling far and wide your festive gold
Let no leaf go...

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