He ran out of work and rushed to the store.
Then sped to his home and shot through his door.
With pumpkins and candy and black cardboard cats.
With cornstalks and devils and tiny witch hats.
He strung purple lights and soft orange crepe.
He hung paper bats with two-sided tape.
He gutted the pumpkins, the best in the bin.
He stabbed each some eyes, a nose, and a grin.
He rushed to the lawn – The Front Yard of Fear.
And set up his zombies he built through the year.
He constructed his graveyard with tombstones of foam,
And placed a cloth ghost in its gloomy crypt home.
He dressed his new scarecrow with a hat and a coat,
And staked in a post for a sign that he wrote:
Beware Ye!
Go Back!
Not Safe!
He laughed a small laugh and smiled with pride.
Then scattered some leaves and ran back inside.
He heated up cider and warmed up some pie.
He colored white frosting with goblin-green dye.
He filled giant bowls with popcorn and treats,
Toffee and chocolates and soft sugared sweets.
He changed from his suit and slicked back his hair.
He donned a black cloak and sat in his chair.
He popped in his fangs and gave them a bite.
Then smiled sharp teeth and waited for night.
Now that his planning and hard work was done,
He listened for sounds of laughter and fun!
He imagined kids running in white ghostly sheets.
Hobos and monsters on shadowy streets!
With masks made of plastic and rubber and paint.
He thought he heard children distant and faint!
He pictured their parents, excited and proud,
Escorting small creatures, eager and loud!
They’d spot his great house, then gather and flock.
They’d block up the street and clog up the block!
They’d line up for hours for a look and a treat.
He thought he heard sounds of scurrying feet!
***
It was only dry leaves swept along by the wind.
He breathed out a sigh, his proud smile thinned.
His dreams and his hopes of Halloween fame
Blew away with the leaves. Nobody came.
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Episode 188 - The Halloween Poem by Pumpkin Rot
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
A fun thing for Halloween - I'll be reciting some great Halloween poems. Our final poem is The Halloween Poem by Pumpkin Rot. #poem #halloween #hauntedstories #poetry #emilydickinson #literature
The Halloween Poem
Pumpkin Rot
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Episode 187 - Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
A fun thing for Halloween - I'll be reciting some great Halloween poems. Continuing with Emily Dickinson'sBecause I Could Not Stop For Death. #poem #halloween #hauntedstories #poetry #emilydickinson #literature
Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Episode 186 - Scott Horton: The Cab Driver Is Right.
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan and editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 and the 2022 book Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Horton is currently at work on the forthcoming book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine.
He’s conducted more than 5,900 interviews since 2003.
In 2007, Horton won the Austin Chronicle‘s “Best of Austin” award for his Iraq war coverage on Antiwar Radio.
Scott’s articles have appeared at Antiwar.com, The American Conservative magazine, the History News Network, The Future of Freedom, The National Interest , the Orange County Register and the Christian Science Monitor. He was featured in the 2019 documentary An Endless War: Getting Out of Afghanistan and contributed a chapter to the 2019 book, The Impact of War.
He was a regular guest on Kennedy Nation on Fox Business Channel.
Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.
Scott’s blog Stress, Twitter, YouTube, Patreon, Substack.
#cardiel #skating #war #israel #palestine #politics #libertarianinstitute #joerogan #vivafrei #freedom
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Episode 185 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
A fun thing for Halloween - I'll be reciting some great Halloween poems. Continuing with the great Edgar Allan Poe - "Alone."
#poem #halloween #hauntedstories #poetry #theraven #edgarallenpoe #alone #literature
“Alone”
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Episode 184 - There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House: Emily Dickinson
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
A fun thing for Halloween - I'll be reciting some great Halloween poems. Continuing with Emily Dickinson's There's been a Death, in the Opposite House. #poem #halloween #hauntedstories #poetry #emilydickinson #literature
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House
Emily Dickinson
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Episode 183 - Dreamland: Edgar Allan Poe
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
A fun thing for Halloween - I'll be reciting some great Halloween poems. Starting with the great Edgar Allan Poe - Dreamland. #poem #halloween #hauntedstories #poetry #theraven #edgarallenpoe #dreamland
Dreamland - Edgar Allan Poe
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule-
From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE- out of TIME.
Bottomless vales and boundless floods,
And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,
With forms that no man can discover
For the tears that drip all over;
Mountains toppling evermore
Into seas without a shore;
Seas that restlessly aspire,
Surging, unto skies of fire;
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters- lone and dead,-
Their still waters- still and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily.
By the lakes that thus outspread
Their lone waters, lone and dead,-
Their sad waters, sad and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily,-
By the mountains- near the river
Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,-
By the grey woods,- by the swamp
Where the toad and the newt encamp-
By the dismal tarns and pools
Where dwell the Ghouls,-
By each spot the most unholy-
In each nook most melancholy-
There the traveller meets aghast
Sheeted Memories of the Past-
Shrouded forms that start and sigh
As they pass the wanderer by-
White-robed forms of friends long given,
In agony, to the Earth- and Heaven.
For the heart whose woes are legion
'Tis a peaceful, soothing region-
For the spirit that walks in shadow
'Tis- oh, 'tis an Eldorado!
But the traveller, travelling through it,
May not- dare not openly view it!
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have wandered home but newly
From this ultimate dim Thule.
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Episode 182 - Joe Wolverton: Equal Protection
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Oh Yeah - nothing like a bit of controversy!
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/constitution/fourteenth-amendment-tool-of-tyranny-but-was-it-legally-ratified/
#freespeech #1stamendment #liberty #truehistory #americanhistory #britishhistory #britain #revolution #naturalrights #joerogan #14thamendment #equality #civilwar
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Episode 181 - Stephanie Petersen: The Next Octave
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Music, economics, Plato, Francis Bacon??? Come ON!! This is And If Love Remains HEAVEN! :) With independent researcher and writer, Stephanie McPeak Petersen.
Get the Book here: https://a.co/d/iyJEftP
https://stephaniepetersen.net/
#economics #fiatmoney #music #Plato #hiddenhistory #tuning #vibration #shakespeare #francisbacon #genius #octave #sustainability