"Halloween – be prepared!" Poem by Sarah Das Gupta: Sarah Das Gupta is a retired teacher from Cambridge, UK. Her work has been published in 12 countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany and others.
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“Halloween – be prepared!” Poem by Sarah Das Gupta

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"Halloween – be prepared!" Poem by Sarah Das Gupta: Sarah Das Gupta is a retired teacher from Cambridge, UK. Her work has been published in 12 countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany and others.
First, the right setting,
the right lighting, the right sounds.
Thick, mothy darkness,
a moment of moonlight,
preferably green and watery.
Swirls of mist, very spooky,
dark forest, empty shopping mall,
haunted house, ruined church
abandoned space station,
lonely cliff top, ghostly train.
Now, noises off-faint footsteps,
clinking chains, shocking shrieking,
harrowing hooting, crazy cackling.

Secondly, remember props:
buy those pumpkins, 
carve those faces, empty sockets,
ghastly grin, glowing orange 
in the twilight, casting shadows
in the moonlit garden.
You also need a manic mask-
think – clown, skeleton, dummy,
witch, zombie, green alien.
Costumes must be truly terrifying-
horribly hellish.
Black, flowing cloaks, blood-stained dresses,
phosphorescent rib cages, satanic goat’s horns.
All the cast of the darkest nightmares

Sarah Das Gupta is a retired teacher from Cambridge, UK.Her work has been published in 12 countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany and others.

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