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No, this isn’t an invitation to a Halloween party on my blog, not quite! Tee hee nearly fooled you didn’t I?
But it is a celebration of sorts, a Happy Halloween, and a bunch of stuff and nonsense that I’d like to share with you. So keep on reading – there are details about a couple of Halloween parties at the end of this post!!!
It’s also to let you know that I will be going on a blogging break in early November and to wish you a Happy Halloween.
Now here come’s the exciting part, I’ve got a secret to share with you.
I just love secrets don’t you?
I’m taking the plunge and entering the 1st Halloween-Poem Contest
on ‘Writer’s Treasure Chest’.
My poem:
The Alternative All Hallows’ Eve Bash!
It’s all Hallow’s Eve time for the party to begin,
Witches, vampires, spooks and demons of the night,
Come and join in this annual spectacular delight,
Bring your entry ticket, a glut of gruesome grisliness.
No glowing Jack O’Lanterns are permitted here,
No pretty Halloween plump pumpkins,
Our team of half dead bouncers search for sweets,
Ejecting sickly sweet cheerfulness with ferocious frowns.
Vampires savour red goblets of the purist human blood,
Witches devour human brains a spicy savoury delicacy,
Ghostly ghouls can’t ingest or digest. Oh what a shame!
Instead the smell of rotten candles fills their one time bellies.
Demons sit together in a clique,
They consume a spirit that no one dares to seek,
Their poker hot glances burn into your soul,
No one dares to join them, its too Lucifer hot!
The party’s over way too soon there is clearing up to do,
The kindly ghosts are left to pick up,
They wail boo hoo,
A ghost’s ghoulish life is over before it has begun!
The demon’s faces’ crease in a smouldering, bittersweet, smirk,
The vampires lick their lips, breaking into a blood-curdling smile,
And the witches cackle with ripples of raucous relish,
While Beelzebub bouncers pick up the ghosts and shake ‘em for fun.
Next year’s party committee is set!
A year from now a Hallibaloo of a Halloween bash is on its way!
Don’t forget, don’t be late!
Creepy Cameras at the ready, Blood, Cold, Shiver, Fire, Flash!
© Marjorie Mallon 2015 – aka, Kyrosmagica. All Rights Reserved.
Here’s the details:
Every author and poet are invited to participate and deliver a “Halloween-Poem” to my email address: aurorajean.alexander@aol.com, together with their picture.
There are a few rules to follow:
1.Your poem needs a Halloween theme.
2.Your poem needs a minimum of 99 words.
3.Your poem has to be delivered to my email address until Halloween, October 31, 2015, 9 pm Eastern Time.
4.Please avoid violence, bad language, and sexual content within the poems. It would be disqualified.
More about the contest and how to enter here: https://aurorajalexander.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/1st-halloween-poem-contest/
The Next Bloggers Bash is set for 11 June 2016 – I went to this year’s Bloggers Bash in August, so a bit of a poetic joke there! Not saying all of us bloggers are a bunch of witches, and devils, but ……. somehow the idea just grabbed me!!
Before I forget there are some Halloween parties going on today, a couple of bloggers are having a share your posts kind of parties today, lovely idea.
The lovely Suzie Speaks has written an excellent post about how to host a blog party: http://suzie81speaks.com/2015/10/27/how-to-host-a-blog-party/
and extended her invitation to you to join her in her Halloween Blog party: http://suzie81speaks.com/2015/10/31/halloween-blog-party/
Also there is an invitation to join in a Witch’s tea party at author Kirsten Weiss’s ParaYourNormal blog: https://parayournormal.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/witchs-teablog-party-2/
What fun, I think I’ll go as a …………. witch!! I have a very fetching red velvet witch’s hat.. and a red and black dress, or perhaps a black one, decisions, decisions…… plus some blood red lipstick perhaps?
Oh, and in case you missed my run down on all my Halloween activities, here’s the link to that.
There is something for everyone, photography, quotes, stories, haiku, poetry, book reviews, you name it: https://atomic-temporary-67364188.wpcomstaging.com/2015/10/31/happy-halloween-2/
Just recently I went to see Wicked at the Apollo Theatre in London, it was fantastic! I’d go as the Wicked Witch but I don’t have enough green face paint so best to keep things simple!!
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Hope you like my poem, do comment I’d love to hear your views.
Have a very Happy Halloween, from your friendly good witch Marje!
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Marje @ Kyrosmagica xx
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I can’t quite believe it, but the bash is nearly three years old. *Weeps with pride*
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M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 