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Beasley
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Cheboygan,MI USA

0 posted 2007-09-30 09:32 AM



Skeletons rattled deep in the night.
Sweet Silk was dressed in satin white.
The bridesmaids were gals we once knew-
Joyce and Barb and Betty Lou.

The groom slept in a box of pine.
The family name was “Frankenstein.”
Banshees wailed Sinatra’s tune
While bats encircled the round, white moon.

A spider banged piano keys,
He wore bandanas on his knees.
It was the night they decided to hitch-
Frank the fiend and Silk the witch.

Invisible fingers, invisible toes-
A ghost dressed up in party clothes!
In the cemetery, a mass of stones,
Rattled above the dancing bones.

In Castle Black, the honeymoon suite
Was drenched in cobwebs. Oh! How neat!
Curses and spells were sent by witches.
Frank laughed all night; it kept him in stitches.

It was the wedding of the year.
If ya weren’t invited, ya lived in the fear
Of the ugly guy with the sewed on toes,
And the green-faced gal with the wart on her nose.


© Copyright 2007 Barbara Gedman - All Rights Reserved
r v wooo
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1 posted 2007-09-30 12:21 PM


beasley, enjoyed the rythmn of the poem. very fitting poem for this time of the year.
until a few year ago, i owned a farm located within a triangle between frankenstein, chamois and hope. these are all small villages in central missouri. frankenstein has a population of less than 50 people but there are many festivities, at the large catholic church in the community, during this time of the year.
your poem revived a lot of old memories!...thank you.

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2 posted 2007-09-30 04:33 PM



FriendyGirl~
You *cackle* me up !!

I'll just sit here wondering WHO you're referring to as
the green-faced gal with the wart on her nose ?

    
Couldn't be MOI ... could it ???
Hee hee hee hee~


*HalloweenerHugletsToYou*
~*WitchyPoo*~


~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
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3 posted 2007-09-30 10:11 PM


Dear Barb:

Here I've been trying to forget this wedding for years and now you've brought it all flooding back!!

Love
betty Lou

Betty Lou Hebert

Beasley
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4 posted 2007-10-01 09:42 AM


That awful wedding was really a scare.
The spider is gone.
I know not where.

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5 posted 2007-10-01 11:55 AM


I lay shaking under cover
Hoping it was all a dream;
Bridesmaid at a ghoulish wedding,
Barb and Betty on my team.

Beasley was the harried hostess
Keeping everyone on track.
She kept busy brushing cobwebs
Off her suit of deepest black.

They had rushed me so, I hadn't
Had the time to comb my hair.
Knew I must have been a scarecrow
In my nightie standing there.

Now I sit at my computer
When I should have stayed in bed.
This screen has turned into a vacuum,
Pulled the brains right from my head.

I thought we had a deal?
Joyce

[This message has been edited by Joyce Johnson (10-01-2007 12:27 PM).]

r v wooo
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6 posted 2007-10-01 12:03 PM


marge,trillium,beasley and joyce i love your humor and the "ways ewes plays with words!"...excellent reply poem, joyce!  
Beasley
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Cheboygan,MI USA
7 posted 2007-10-02 07:09 AM


You guys are such fun!
Thanks RV for the information about the city of Frankenstein. I copied that in my writing notes.
Happy Haunting! Barb

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