Halloween Acrostic

Horrendous atmosphere

A haint, I ain’t

Lonely

Lost

On

West Street

Evil Lurks

Evil Lingers

Nobody is safe

Mrs. McLoon and the Werewolf

The witch Mrs. McLoon

harbors a grudge

She dislikes her neighbor

he’s such a drudge

Mrs. McLoon decided

to change Sid one day

She had had enough

going to make him pay

Mrs. McLoon was to get even

so you know what she did?

Decided to turn him into a werewolf,

this poor fellow Sid

She mixed a concoction,

a potion so stellar

Meaning to turn Sid

into a wolf fella

She planned a big, wild werewolf

to howl at the moon

Oh, she was bad,

that savage Mrs. McLoon

Something went awry

with that particular spell

Sid was no werewolf

out haunting the dell

Instead with that potion

he transformed true to task

Sid then became

the green guy from Mask

He hyped up and he ran

and he painted the town

The old Sid we once knew

became quite the clown

He captured Cameron Diaz

and zip in a flash

He was robbing banks, tackling gangstas

and spending the cash!

Mrs. McLoon was befuddled

no wolf fella was he

So we watched her late night

as she brewed special tea

Sid seemed pretty happy

more popular now in green

And townspeople prefer

no werewolves to be seen

Trapped at Antietam

There you are

enveloped in mists

on that sad, beautiful battlefield

far removed now

from that bloodiest day

in history

attacks, counterattacks

tragedy at Sunken Road

armies flank out

to the right

to the left

Lee stoically committed

dug in there

a cold hillside indeed

bullets strewn

over bridges

into hedges

through Miller's Cornfield

under the shades of night

fragile shadows bowed and tended

to the sick

to the dying

shore up the lines

one more time

make a stand

as fettered out to you

by men in top hats and coats

one more round

before the wounded army

gathered south of the Potomac

the Proclamation was written

its time to take down your flag

your cause was unjust

now mourn that boy there

the one that is trapped

inside those mists

who lives that battle

for all eternity

"I felt this way in my past

a Maryland September day,

I may not ever come back

but I gotta be brave."

Boy Photo: flickr.com/photos/krysthopher_woods

Cannons Photo: Pixabay