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A Halloween Bedtime Story
There’s a world that is intangible except at Halloween.
It teems with banshees and with ghosts at other times unseen.
Strange monsters with long fingers and pumpkins for a head
lurk inside your closet, hang out under your bed.
When they finally emerge, it does no good to shout.
They’ll grab you in their mighty grasp and turn you inside out.
Put your arms outside the covers or one foot on the floor,
and you’ll provide a tasty lunch the monsters will adore.
For once they have a single limb securely in their clench,
they’ll have you all in seconds. Your destruction is a cinch!
Though Halloween is much beloved by all you candy lovers,
Once at home and snug in bed, best stay beneath the covers!
Prompt words today are pumpkin, mighty, intangible, banshee, cinch, inside out.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Oooh! A child would definitely be scared.
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Thankfully I don’t have any children as readers. I scared a few adults, though.
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😱😱😱
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Nice poetry with a spooky tone! And deft weaving of the words into your poem! Brava!
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Thanks, Melanie.
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Good and scary! I can never do the foot on the floor thing. Years ago my sister hid under the bed and grabbed my ankle. To this day I just can’t do it. 🙂
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I like the variation on Munch the best. Boooo!
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Glad I read this on my Saturday morning. Too spooky for a nighttime read 😀 😀
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;o)
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Spooky decorations! Hopefully it won’t haunt me at night. 😉
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My bad…
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Yikes!!!
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Sorry to scare a kid!
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