A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the year following, from August 2024 to August 2025.(provided I live that long, of course).
Thank you, HaveYourselfAMerryLi'lCharles. I've contested the Charlie Chaplin thing a couple of times, won once, if I remember correctly. But it's the kind of thing I try when bored and have nothing better to do - just doesn't seem to have happened lately.
Poor little Johnny, who died only last week,
he didn’t mind - he was ever so meek;
but what really hurt him and made him feel sad,
he missed Halloween and the chance to be bad.
He haunted each night in the same old streets,
wailing and moaning and dressed up in sheets.
The other ghosts listened and they understood -
poor Johnny was only expressing his mood.
They came to him then with a clever idea,
“You need a friend to possess and be here,”
and Johnny latched on to his little dog Stan,
who knew him at once and accepted his plan.
Now each Halloween they go forth as one
amongst trick or treaters and all having fun,
from house to house and fast on their feet,
go Johnny and Stan collecting their treats!
Line count: 16
Rhymed aabb
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 11 2024
Prompt: Picture of a dog trick or treating in a sheet.
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