This week’s theme is obviously Halloween, Samhain, Toussaint, All Hallows, whatever you want to call it—the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. This is the time when the dead are close, our waking world and the otherworld touch, the door between them is open.
Be inspired by the season, the myths, or the picture. One more round of sept form—seven lines of 1-2-3-4-3-2-1 syllables respectively. Get writing and post your creations here.
Here are my efforts.
Souls
long dead
hasten from
the otherworld
drawn moth-like
to flame
bright.
Dark
night falls
moonless sky
still the lake lies
candle flame
draws you
home.
Love
once warm
your heart was
now still and cold
let the flame
your steps
light.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
Here i am: https://peterbouchier.wordpress.com/english-essays-and-poems-2/hallow/
You’re making quite a habit of getting in first, Peter 🙂
come
Samhain
fest we leave
gifts to Aos Śi
to protect
our foods
reaped
@the _release_101
Thanks Jim! Nice one.
DREAD ALLUREMENT
Gone
Summer
Samhain’s come
The Dark Season
Breathes a chill
Fire
Burns
Burns
And yet
Has no warmth
I’m shivering
What’s that sound?
A door
Creaks
Creaks
Again
T’is the sidhe*
The Otherworld
Shadowy
Beckons
Me
Me
Oh my
May I dare?
Go find her there
My heart’s love
Passed on
Gone
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*pron. shee.
https://bennaga.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/dread-allurement-a-sept/
I have only just read your challenge with full attention and discovered “One more round of sept form—seven lines of 1-2-3-4-3-2-1 syllables respectively.”. Oh dear! My only excuse is that when I was first introduced to the challenge in an e-mail it read thus:
” I even joined another writing challenge that started last Wednesday. I wrote one post for it so far. The poetry form in called The Sept. The line count is seven and the syllable count is 1-2-3-4-3-2-1. In the challenge there is a specific prompt. I like to write it on my own since I discovered it. Any subject is okay. No limit to stanzas as long as it is kept in the same meter. At the end of my email I would like to share with you what I wrote on the prompt for this week. It is “Swans.””
Don’t apologise about the theme—you’ll see there’s another ‘Swan’ sept came in today. And you can write a whole string of them if you like. I don’t want to set limits to anyone’s creativity 🙂
Whew…all caught up! Here is my THIS week Sept. I love this challenge. Thanks for hosting it Jane! 🙂
https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/thinning-veil-a-sept-for-the-season/
Thanks Kat, and it’s my pleasure. I wouldn’t do it otherwise 🙂
Reblogged this on hocuspocus13 and commented:
jinxx♣xoxo
Trick
You play
Lost in time
While I await
Forlornly
My love’s
Treat
Happy Halloween Jane!
Eye
Of the
Flame, find them,
Raise them, once more
To life, lust,
Thirst for
Blood
Ground
Opens,
Sky darkens
While flames flicker,
Hearts flutter,
Terror
Thrives
Thanks for the challenge
Thanks for taking it up!
Reblogged this on Wyrdwend and commented:
Nicely done…
Mound of Hostages
wisp
of fog
shape of man
passage denied
this one night
paces
mourns
http://elusivetrope.com/2015/10/29/mound-of-hostages/
I like the word association passage/grave—very apposite.
Well done, Jane.
Here’s mine:
when
Marvin
rings your bell
on Halloween
he’s there for
bars from
Mars
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/a-snickers-by-any-other-name-would-taste-as-sweet/
(the graphic makes it a little more clear – at least for Americans)
Thanks for the graphic, she says, scratching head. Cute little green man…
Costumed children “trick or treating” for candy and dressed in all sorts of costumes (often cartoon characters) at our doors at Halloween came to mind for me. Marvin the Martians is an animated cartoon character introduced in the 1950s and 1960s, when I was a child.
Marvin is one we didn’t get. But Marvin Gaye…
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And, of course, Marvin Gaye is universal – even on Mars.
Maybe especially on Mars now 🙂
Hi Jane, I have two for you…
1.
Flames
leap high.
As sun slips,
darkness hovers
with the ghosts
and lost
souls.
2.
She
rode the
sky, laughing.
Queen of the night.
But no more.
Now she
burns.
Cheery as always, just how you like it.
Wot! Only two? But this is your big thing, Ali. Seriously, they’re lovely and eerie. Well, the second one’s a bit grisly too…
Plain
Orange
Pumpkin carved
Geometric
Shapes create
Funny
Face
Thank you!
Hi Jane. I gave this challenge a try. I wrote these while listening to horror movie soundtracks. (My Ontheland ping should show up nearby.)
Deep
urgent
bass strumming
warns danger lurks,
Rain lashed strings
screaming
fright.
Pale
shadow
figure lurks,
Eerie chimes bend,
Unearthly
bell rings
Gone.
Got it. Thanks for the seasonal scares, Janice 🙂
Such beautiful poetry, Jane!
Thank you! It’s a form that lends itself to effective images.
Indeed!
I thought I had figured out the Ping but not so. Here is my offering for The Sept on ‘Samhain.’ a perfect setup for the Prompt. Here is my link/ Hope it works. My mind is not working so well. I created a collage for the image. It’s in tribute to our long haired black cat who died this last year. He is the image, looking kind of spooky. at the top.
http://thesecretkeeper.net/2015/10/31/poetry-challenge-3-samhain/
Your Septs were so perfect. If my brain weren’t made of jello at the moment I am sure I can come up something with more substance. jk ps. hope all are visited by those they want to see & their time together is celebratory. ❤
Thinking of all the dear departed tonight, cats included. Sending best wishes your way 🙂
Sept… intriguing. Now I have this and a circular to work on. 🙂
Well, work on it and post it so we can all see the result 🙂
Yes ma’am… but you do realize, that requires me to actually write something… who’s got time for that? 😀
Well, erm, writers. Usually.
Oh.. yeah. I’m suppose to be one of those, aren’t I? Well, there goes that easy excuse.
Exactly.