Daily Cascade

On the Night of Halloween

Prompt: Have fun with these words: ghosts, spiders, pumpkins, scarecrows. children, moon, vegetation and confrontation.

Just when I thought I had written what little I could come up about Halloween... but this was a lot of fun, and I think I used all the words.

On the Night of Halloween

Under the pale *moon's deception
I stand with hesitation, as *ghosts drift

past candle-eyed *pumpkins; yet, I grin at
*scarecrows standing, arms spread wide,

as I notice the *spiders, in silent motion,
weaving in devotion, for *confrontation

with the flies and *children, wilder now,
acting in elation over the hushed creation

and the *vegetation on the dying fields
sway, bend, and hum an eerie incantation,

making me feel a vague trepidation for this
crazy world haunted by its own narration.