In Keeping with the Season, A Halloween Challenge Options

[Guest_ohsteve_*]

A Halloween Challenge

Write a parody of a well known poem or song using a Halloween theme: scary, haunted, silly, funny, in any form.

My contributions:

O Captain My Captain! by Walt Whitman (with apologies to him)

O Pumpkin my Pumpkin!
Our fear filled night is done,
my costume outlasted the weather
candy we sought is won.
Cementary's near, ghouls I hear, creatures all exalting,
with hollow eyes, bones unreal, ghosts grim and daring.
But O flicker! Flicker! Flicker!
O flame of light so orange.
Spot the coffin where my body lie,
pale, cold and dead.

O Pumpkin! My Pumpkin! I must rise, send forth things fell,
over them sheets are hung, childlike voices yell.
Rewards of candied apples and chocolate bars, their bags all a-crowding,
for tricks or treats they come to call, dressed up masses,eager faces smiling.
Here pumpkin, some fell hand carved your head
it forms a horrid mask as you sit upon the deck.
Your candle guttering, falls
cold and dead.
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Carry On my Wayward Son- Kansas (again apologies)

Carrion, my graveyard son
there'll be bones when you're done.
Rest those heads here to lay
don't scream or gurgle any more.

Twice I rise from my coffin
got a glimpse of what you took off in.
Second time I went soaring higher
in a ghost filled sky.

Through my eyes I could see a mummy
through my nose I could smell him coming.
hear the voices chant you are dreaming
I heard them say.

Carrion, my graveyard son
it's the best you ever tasted
eat it all don't you waste it
there'll be more when you are done.

[Cleo_Serapis]

Steve for posting this challenge!

I'm afraid my reply may be a day or two late as I'm most liekly going to respond Saturday or Sunday (unless my muse stays awake after my return home from work and the daily work out) over the next couple of days).


I really enjoyed your respones - why not post the O Pumpkin one for crits?

Cheers,
~Cleo