My vote is for Magpie's second poem and I stand firm on that so please count this as my vote on Oct 29th. Although I do like the first one, that second one is a work of art. PMSL maggie.

Halloween is one of those holidays I don't understand. What other day of the year do we send our children out into the cold night, to traipse from door to door and beg strangers to give them candy? I think I am going to cook up some nice healthy brussel sprouts and give those out. Someone needs to be sensible and make sure the kids are eating right. Might as well be me. I sure hope they get disgruntled and TP my house. I am running low on my supply and I am getting tired of buying it at Walmarts. It would be nice to get a good supply of toilet paper that will last me the entire winter.

Thanks Ruby, by the way, how about a few chocolate covered brussel sprouts for us big kids!

Magprob I hope you forgave me already... by the way if that got you to come up with the other poem then I think it was pretty much worth it.

Forgive what? Nobody steals my power and yes, it prodded me into diving deep and swimming around in my pool of creative juices to come up with Glen The Funky Butt Monster! I thank you.

OK that's all good. Hope there will be more submissions.

Hello again everyone... Today is the official start of the poem contest... So if you'd like to start posting you can do it now... It'll go on until the 29th of October, 2007, so if you have something you want to share, please you're welcome to do so.

The crisp breeze cuts sharply
Into my cheeks, as I run
To each door for candy.

That's the best I can come up with. I was researching haiku and it's actually a lot harder than I previously had thought, so I used the easier, modern form. :D

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The crisp breeze cuts sharply
into my cheeks, as I run
to each door for candy.

That's the best I can come up with. I was researching haiku and it's actually a lot harder than I previously had thought, so I used the easier, modern form. :D

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Make a complete list of every word you want to use with the correct amount of syllables. Oh my! That would be tedious. That is to hard! You can steal my style if you like. It's called, Early American Illeterate.

I can't come up with anything yet... YET, I say... I may ask the kids for help... is that legal her METERRE??

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I can't come up with anything yet....YET, I say...i may ask the kids for help...is that legal her METERRE???

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So long as the result is mostly your own writing... but no one here will know anyway. But if they do help you, make sure to give them credit for that. By the way that poem reminds me of how my sister and I used to go trick or treating. It was usually cold and the breeze did cut through our cheeks.
And just to mention something, don't make it harder on yourselves, you don't have to make it a haiku or limerick, I just mentioned that it could be as short as those styles... but you can even make up your own style, no need to follow any. Just do whatever suits you best.

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Make a complete list of every word you want to use with the correct amount of syllables. Oh my! That would be tedious. That is to hard! You can steal my style if you like. It's called, Early American Illeterate.

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I know my format of haiku was easy, but real haiku is much more difficult. It doesn't use syllables, it uses moras, or something like that.

Check it out

Haiku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I got a brain cramp just reading about it!

C'mon people lets get going!! Not really trying to hurry you up but this thread needs some poems...

c'mon... really?. no poems?. Seriously, has anyone got something to post yet?? Or did you guys forget??

Didn't forget I am just afraid nothing I do will compare to Mag... (she puts her head down in shame) :(

Don't worry whatever you come up with will be appreciated.

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c'mon............really???........no poems????.......Seriously, has anyone got something to post yet??? Or did you guys forget???

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No poems? We have 3 already. What, doesn't mine count?

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So long as the end result is mostly your own writing....but no one here will know anyway. But if they do help you, make sure to give them credit for that. By the way that poem reminds me of how my sister and i used to go trick or treating. It was usually cold and the breeze did cut through our cheeks.
And just to mention something, don't make it harder on yourselves, you don't have to make it a haiku or limerick, i just mentioned that it could be as short as those styles...but you can even make up your own style, no need to follow any. Just do whatever suits you best.

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Limericks? Did you say limericks? I love limericks so I wrote this one just for the heck of it.

There once was a morbidly obese chick from Aberdeen
Her most favorite day of the year was Halloween
She rolled down the street
Flattening everyone she did meet
While sucking their candy bags clean

Hold everything, I came up with one more.

There once was a young man named Larry
Who went trick or treating dressed as a fairy
He got his as* beat
Halfway down the street
Cause Larry, was just too damn scary!

Lmao!! lmao!!