Today it's Poetry Monday once again. The theme: Halloween!
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Diane - who has taken over the hosting of this challenge - and Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings - who supplies us with many of the topics - are also writing wonderful, funny, thought-provoking, ingenious and honestly well written verse. Go and read them!
Karen of Baking in a Tornado has joined us in this crazy pursuit, and promises us at least a poem a month!
SpikesBestMate often publishes a nice verse in the comments.
Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey who has been a faithful participant, is slowly returning to blogging after her husband's passing from this world. Let's continue to send warm thoughts, good energy, and lots of prayers her way, now that her mum's health is in need of a prayer too. But still we dare hope that she will join Poetry Monday again.
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Diane - who has taken over the hosting of this challenge - and Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings - who supplies us with many of the topics - are also writing wonderful, funny, thought-provoking, ingenious and honestly well written verse. Go and read them!
Karen of Baking in a Tornado has joined us in this crazy pursuit, and promises us at least a poem a month!
SpikesBestMate often publishes a nice verse in the comments.
Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey who has been a faithful participant, is slowly returning to blogging after her husband's passing from this world. Let's continue to send warm thoughts, good energy, and lots of prayers her way, now that her mum's health is in need of a prayer too. But still we dare hope that she will join Poetry Monday again.
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I love Halloween and I am happy that it has finally made it to Denmark. There's two reasons for this. The first is a bit grumpy: You see, the shops think we're ready for Christmas decorations on the second week of October, but why? The Autum holidays are always week 42, and Christmas thingies are in the shop from week 41 onwards.
Luckily now the Halloween celebrations mean that the Christmas candy andsuch are living a bit in the shadows at least until tomorrow.
The second reason why we in the Owlery do not mind all the hullabaloo around Halloween is that it is a chance to tell the Owlets of all the saints only known to God, and that they are celebrated in this strange way. Saints are almost unknown in Denmark anyway. That we have an extra excuse to eat some candy, bake a cake or two and celebrate is not a matter of objection :) and here we are against the current as almost always as chatholics, we're totallly atypic here, so all Hallows eve is a nice excuse to tell of Saints - all the known and even more all the unnkown ones to be celebrated tomorrow.
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But Poetry Monday ... a poem is expected. I had one this morning, but it left my brain as the alarm sounded ...
While I'm thinking - and hopefully re-create what I was thinking of here's something spooky for you.
What wonderful reasons to welcome Halloween. It is barely here. The big stores encourage it (of course) but has not yet taken off. It was Halloween here last night, but it was also bucketing with rain. No knocks on the door - though I didn't expect any either.
SvarSletAnd thanks for the fun video.
It is worth celebrating what the author of the Letter to the Hebrews called the Great Cloud of Witnesses who have gone before us in faith.
SvarSlet