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Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! I don’t have anything too new this week as I am just trying to get used to my new schedule now that the kiddos are both in school. Currently, I am sitting in the library in a little tucked away cubby with a widow view. While I have far less “free time,” I thrive on the consistancy of the school year schedule.
Every October, I do what I call “Poemtober” where I try to write a short spooky poem a day for the whole month. I also accompany each poem with a fun little watercolor doodle. I am no artist, but I give myself permission to be bad because I am still having fun. I think I have only completed a full month of October poems once and last year I petered out after 15.
But my brain lives in spookytown all year round and this is my blog so I have decided that between now and the end of September, I will try to finish up last year’s challenge. So be on the look out for that next week!
In the meantime, here are a few of my favorites from the past few years.
Sloth Reads 
Good for you that you’re going back to finish your challenge! Good for us that we get to read your spooky poems now AND then!
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Becky, thinking of you as I awake from another nightmare. Spookytown has been haunting me at night lately. Weird dreams pop up here and there and I laughed when I read your line: “But my brain lives in spookytown all year round.” Your little ghost poem leads me right up to the last line and then I had to laugh. You got me with this poem. I’ll lookout for your spookytown poems.
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I was at a department store yesterday which already has a Halloween display, Becky. I guess they, like you, are more than ready for Poemtober! How fun that you’re finishing the last challenge, will prep you for more coming! I like “stony names worn by time”. When I taught, my students and I visited a nearby cemetery, researched some history especially of that terrible flu epidemic long ago & made rubbings that added to stories they wrote from the names found. It was a great history project in October! Best ghouly wishes!
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What a great challenge. “my brain lives in spookytown all year round” sounds like a line from a poem! I like your cemetery poem in particular – it reminds me of lazy summer Sunday afternoons, walking in a peaceful cemetery, reading headstones.
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Becky, have fun finishing up those spooky poems! I shivered with that last line on the ghost poem. “Just some body to play with.” Thanks for sharing.
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