witch has no cauldron
no stove for screaming hot meals
eats graveyard cold cuts
dearly departed
ensconced in fresh seasoned wood
now a ghoul’s sandwich
abandoned old manse
white sheets drape furnishings
double as ghosts
clever cackling witch
never sent to the stake
burned all the trees
mirror company
now open long nighttime hours
for vampire returns
dizzy Halloween
witch flies in crazy circles
on a Bromba
strapped to rotted fence
pumpkin brain pecked to a pulp
needs to see Wizard
sundown Halloween
unholy shadows lengthen
as tombstones push up
Gary Davis enjoys exercising his imagination through crafting dark and darkly humorous haiku and other forms of poetry. He finds haiku, in particular, both challenging and fun. Writing haiku is like doing a miniature Zen painting and, when you look at the painting, seeing something unexpected (and maybe scary in the case of horrorku). Mr. Davis has published haiku in Tales from the Moonlit Path, Scifaikuest, Star*Line, and Lupine Lunes (2016-2021). He has published other poetry in Tales of the Talisman, Bloodbond, Illumen, Spaceports & Spidersilk, Zen of the Dead and a sci-fi anthology, Kepler’s Cowboys (2014-2021).
Published 10/28/21
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