My Dear Readers:
It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare. -- Brackett, "Halloween," 1978
gathering dark
the masked Grim Reaper's eyeballs
bulge out of his skull
Chen-ou Liu
pointed hats dip
into black inked sky
a constellation of witches
Karen A VandenBos
a skeleton
rattles the door ...
autumn wind
Neena Singh
trick-or-treating
the warmth
of the skeleton's hand
Michelle Schaefer
dripping sweet
the vampire fangs
wax candy
Richard L. Matta
All Souls Day
so many masks
left behind
David McKe
To conclude today's "Special Feature" post, I would like to share with you the following haiku sequence:
Three Hundred and Fifty-Second Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
written in response to CBC News, Oct. 27: "How to celebrate Halloween safely this year with COVID-19 and other viruses lurking: Infectious diseases expert says exposure may put strain on overburdened health network
The Safest Halloween Ever 😅
Halloween eve
a new wave of lockdowns
in China
subvariants surging ...
a gang of grim reapers
double masked
trick or treat ...
Reese's Cups, M&M's and a box
of rapid tests
Added: written in response to the South Korea Halloween stampede
two red handprints
on Happy Halloween ...
150 deaths
Added: written in response to USA Today, Nov 3: Seoul, South Korea Halloween stampede leaves over 150 dead
row upon row of shoes
with name tags to be filled out ...
Halloween stampede
FYI: The New Yorker, Nov.2 : In Itaewon, Another Betrayal of Young Koreans.
The nation’s abiding emotion is, understandably, grief. But there is also a blood-boiling rage...Why have politicians and bureaucrats, of both major parties, failed so radically at the basic provision of public safety?
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