Halloween poetry includes poems about ghosts, ghouls, witches, vampires, skeletons, mummies, sirens, Lorelei, monsters and other things that go bump in the night.
I'm a fan if Halloween poems, and I especially like 'Pale Through Her Eyes'. I think I may have restacked it before. But there is nothing wrong with doing so again. It's right up there with the best of vampire poetry.
Yes, we have many poems that are both popular and good, some of which have recently made comebacks I like to think I've abetted, such as "The Highwayman" and "Tom O'Bedlam's Song," both of which I have touted for decades. And I keep working on "The Death of a Toad" by Richard Wilbur and "Punishment" by Seamus Heaney.
I'm a fan if Halloween poems, and I especially like 'Pale Through Her Eyes'. I think I may have restacked it before. But there is nothing wrong with doing so again. It's right up there with the best of vampire poetry.
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking our blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of blood,
her fangs—white—baring,
revealing her lust,
and her eyes, pale, staring…
Martin, I'm glad you like "Pale Though Her Eyes," which has become popular on the Internet.
Poems can be popular and good . Poetry is for everybody.
Yes, we have many poems that are both popular and good, some of which have recently made comebacks I like to think I've abetted, such as "The Highwayman" and "Tom O'Bedlam's Song," both of which I have touted for decades. And I keep working on "The Death of a Toad" by Richard Wilbur and "Punishment" by Seamus Heaney.