First Trick-Or-Treators (PoetDevine challenge)

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ice
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since 2003-05-17

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Pennsylvania

0 posted 2004-10-27 08:45 AM

First Trick-Or-Treater's
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As was custom, they gathered,
Celts from north and west and east
From all the British Isles, and France
Druid priests, and Shamans
Aligned by their religion,
That insisted the souls of good-dead
Turned into
Newborn, happy, children;
And spirits of the bad into wild, crazed beasts.
*
High, lifts the high priest, his scepter
And the stars come  alive, become magical
Releasing cryptic powers in plants,
And those pent-up in wild-animals.
Worship-praising the Horn God-
Sun God-caldron, beseeching  Sanheim,
Lord of gallows,
Head-master of the dead;
To smite all live-bad Druids,
At their New-Year celebration...
*
All cry! "come, we must jail them in wicker
And fling the reed basket, into the fire
Observing close, the way they die
Their writhes
Will show us evils, deeply hidden
While they lived their stolid lives."
*
"In  bonfire bright, let us sing,
'round it dance, look close
And bring back the sun though it night.
All donned in horrid, ghoulish-masks
Faced like trolls that hide, unseen
But come alive in sacrificial light.
*
And then;
*
"House to house, call for offerings
Of sweet and bread,
Beg alms from the relatives
Of those, by our spells and our fires,
Now dead."

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

1 posted 2004-10-27 08:55 AM

Excellent...wheeewwwww

Thants all I have to say....wow!

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2004-10-27 08:59 AM

ice,
Well done, enjoyed the read.

froggy
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since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

3 posted 2004-10-27 12:41 PM

Trick or Treat
I love it Ford.

:-)

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

4 posted 2004-10-27 12:42 PM

Fantabulous write Ford!

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

5 posted 2004-10-27 01:45 PM

It is wonderfully engaging
to look back into history
to see what customs and traditions
have followed us like a shadow
over the centuries...

I trust this will be a yearly posting...