Thank you for all your help! Final change in BEWARE! Jill

[jill stockinger]

Thank you to everyone in the group for help with this poem!

I am not sending it out for discussion again. I am just sending it, to show the changes.

I especially thank Jerry for the word, "gnarled."

I DID end up using it.

As I had witches in the first stanza, I decided I did not want them inserting their bony hands in the fourth stanza.

So the poem is now this:

 

 

                    Jill Stockinger

 

Beware!

 

A riddling,

rattling

streaming of witches

go streaking across the sky.

 

With wiggles

and wriggles,

a waggle of batwings

silently flap and rise.

 

Dashing, flashing

brightly through the mist,

the moon rolls on in the bitter bite

of the cold and windy night.

 

Moaning, groaning,

dark bendy trees shake dry leaves;

branches stretch their gnarled fingers,

pointing and clutching in the moonlight.

 

Laughing, shrieking,

colorful costumed children

happily shout, “Trick or treat!”

as they sprint from house to house.

 

Sliding, slipping,

a ghostly whisp is slinking

through the graveyard, watching

and waiting, quiet as a mouse.