Special Feature: Halloween Haiku for Your Reading "Pleasure"

My Dear Readers:

All the spirits, good and evil, fairy and pixie, witch and wizard, on this night will sure be stirring. 

-- Arthur Peterson, “Halloween”

All Souls’ Eve  --

tipping the spirit level

this way & that

Sandra Simpson

halloween night

a thin veil

between two worlds

Bernadette O’Reilly

gathering dark ...

child zombies leapfrog laughing

through gravestones

Chen-ou Liu

pointed hats dip

into black inked sky

a constellation of witches

Karen A VandenBos

strays outbark each other

phalanx after phalanx

of dark grim reapers 

Chen-ou Liu

To conclude today's "Special Feature," post, I would like to share with you the following scary halloween:

gembun: 

On this night, all the spirits stirring, jack-o’-lanterns grinning wider.

shrouded head to toe in red

a girl skims ghostlike

through the dark -- scything

Note: For more about gembun, see "To the Lighthouse" post, Gembun, Untitled Minimalist Haibun

Added:

clomp! clomp! clomp! 

in gathering dark a phalanx 

of Trump zombies