October 31st
The beam of the October orange moon,
the orb, rising above the harvested fields,
cornstalks, dry, broken,
such rattling of bones from a summer life,
candlelight yellow eyes of owls hooting,
in their Gothic greetings
to a lone walker, who, with haste,
is passing by a churchyard cemetery
of bygone, cracked tombstones.
What spirits stir in their frigid graves
this very night?
As silent ravens perching in trees of
black gnarled branches in such a
cold, cloudless sky,
remind the apprehensive youth
the dead should never be forgotten
in whispers, but spoken in memories,
as a chill causes him to turn
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