Moonlight Castle On A Hill

                                                              MOONLIGHT CASTLE ON A HILL

Moonlight castle on a hill

A silhouette in air so still

In a lab Frankenstein does stomp

Looking for flesh on which to chomp

Dracula smiles with fangs so white

Hunting virgins necks to bite

From a dungeon come a scream

Why is this nightmare not a dream

Blood all splattered on a wall

Phones all dead no one to call

In the forest Wolfman does howl

With his breath so rank and foul

Misty graveyards corpses creep

All awoken from their sleep

Lightning bolts light up the night

As if to try and give a fright

From a church a bell does toll

As if to warn they'll take your soul

Devil dogs with eyes so red

Try to drag you from your bed

On bits of flesh zombies beast

Caring not if man or beast

Bats fly in the dark

Seeking places to leave their mark

Ghost and ghouls glide with ease

With chains all rattling around their knees

Witches cauldrons boil and bubble

With eye of newt and frogs legs double

In a basement a psycho does wait

Teens upstairs don't know their fate

Michael and Jason on the prowl

Behind their masks they wear a scowl

Killer clowns just stand and stare

No need to speak to give a scare

Damien bares the mark six six six

Lucifer's child with box of tricks

Just a warning of things so mean

So all stay safe this Halloween

Reviews

[barleygirl]

BEST ONE OF YOURS I'VE READ SO FAR! Love it! I've been in the mood for some Halloween macabre themes & you've done this one up perfectly light & gory. As a rhyme & rhythm freak, I always love that about your writing. But in this poem, you use a ton of bright vivid descriptions, some drawn from familiar "frightful" scenes but still fresh & original sounding the way you put it all together (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[George David Hope]

Thanks for your very kind words and comments. Wish I'd had entered this one in the competition now. Glad you enjoyed it. I only hope the other ones that I post will keep the standard up. Got lots more to post but the quality is up and down as I'm posting them from when I started and my newer ones so it's a bit of a mish mash. Again wrote this one in a cupboard at work.

[barleygirl]

Fun to hear about your methods. I only post stuff I just wrote before posting. I started out putting older stuff on, but then I had so much, I took off a lot of the old stuff.

[Onlyme]

This was like watching a horror move on Halloween night. Great stuff George.

[George David Hope]

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the kind words.I think this is the first time it's been shared. Normally post them on Facebook.

[Onlyme]

So glad you share it on here George.

[CLR9]

i still got halloween candy stuck to my teeth, grate pome!

[George David Hope]

Glad you enjoyed it...was a poem that I chose not to enter into a competition.

[CLR9]

It's fun like television. Cool Halloween stuff is always great ma dude. Ray Bradbury in a can. Give us more candy apples and coffee.