Halloween A B C poems by Eve Merriam

Apple, sweet apple...
Bats in the belfry...
Creepy crawlers...
Diabolic demons
Elf: Little, littler, littlest sprite...
Fiend: A fiend with a fiendish glee...
Ghost: More gruesome than any groan...
House: Why do the curtains blow?
Icicle: An icy stabbing so swiftly done...
Jack-o'-lantern, jack-o'-lantern, all aglow...
Key: "Follow me" spells the key that opens a gate that leads to a wood where...
Lair: Lunging, plunging through the woods...
Mask: Guises, disguises, all kinds of surprises...
Nightmare: Nay, nay, nay never get away...
Owl: Who who who did it?....
Pet: A pet to pat, a pal of a pet, a pet the family won't forget...
Question: Write it on the North Wind, bury it in a woodencask; what is the question  that you dare not ask?
Rope: Twist the hemp spin the flax don't fall into the pavement cracks...
Skeleton: Clack clack clack up the stair; run to look -- no one's there...
Trap: Get a trap set a trap trap trap trap...
Umbrella, umbrella, duck under, duck under...
Viper, viper, spiteful sniper, snake in the grass...
Witchery: Which, which which witchery?
Xylophone tones, xylophone bones...
Yeast: Stir it in the brew stir it in the bread rise rise seethe spread...
Zero: Round blank Rpund blan k Only bubbles where it sank...
  

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