Gemini Rising

Day 7 - Season of the Witch/Halloween III

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13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025  (E) Let your spooky poetry shine. Oct. 13th 12:01 am WDC time. - closes 11:59 pm WDC Oct 25th #2328177 by A Warped Witch I Be

Free Verse Poetry ▼

Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme).

In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the reader.

Following the direction of Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot, many modern day poets use this particular form of expression.

This is a Free Verse Poem inspired by Halloween III - Season of the Witch

Pagans danced in a circle
Twirling round and round
Surrounding Stonehenge on Samhain
Creating energy – creating

The Season of the Witch
Survived throughout the ages
Settling in northern lands
Twisting, turning, mutilating

Using disguises of all kinds
Mutating in the modern
Changing your look – jack-o-lanterns
Skeletons, green face – dangerous

What happens to fear when it’s laced
With pain dulled by the drink?
What happens to disgust when drugged
With unbelief?

Take off the mask the warning goes out
The trick is death of the innocent
The treat is a dance with the devil in
The Season of the Witch

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