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Poetry challenge #3 :the entries
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
The third challenge on the theme of Samhain attracted another beautiful crop of poems. Darkness, death and the otherworld/afterlife obviously have great appeal. Here are your sept poems, in order of appearance. Peter Bouchier was first (again!) https://peterbouchier.wordpress.com/english-essays-and-poems-2/hallow/ then Jim, who I’m pleased to say has left a twitter…
Black Widow
Originally posted on Pen of the Damned:
The street is alive with festivities but my house is sombre and silent. The neighbourhood knows I am a widow in mourning, that I want to be left in peace, but that doesn’t prevent those roaming little brats from ringing my bell. “Trick or Treat!” they shout, over…
South wind
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Placid summer lingers languid touch of south wind brushing the sky with veils of cloud while the ice grinds in the north and the dead wait behind the door in the shade of autumn listening rapt to the robin’s song and the last roses falling.
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 