The Monsters May Come Calling

September 13, 2017 John Hansen 2569 Views 10 Comments halloween, Halloween night, monsters, skeletons, trick-or-treat, witches

Halloween is almost here

So prepare your home with care.

Decorate it horribly,

All visitors to scare.

Buy, or make your costumes-

Vampires, witches, ghouls,

Hang spider webs and skeletons,

There really are no rules.

Stock up on the candy

To prepare for trick-or-treat,

And make some special monster food

For your family to eat.

Carve a Jack-o-Lantern face

From a pumpkin chose’ with care.

Make it very eerie

So trespassers BEWARE!

But, while you enjoy festivities

And treat the night as fun,

Real monsters gather in the dark

Until their evil deeds are done.

They’ll probably come a calling

When your family’s fast asleep,

Checking unlocked doors and windows

So inside they can creep.

They’ll steal your children from their beds

And take them far away

To their gruesome, evil chambers.

So keep them safe and PRAY!

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John Hansen

Longtime poet but not in the traditional technical sense. I enjoy rhyme but like to experiment and dabble in many different forms and maybe even make up some of my own. There is always a message or lesson I want to promote through my writing, for that reason, my poetry generally shies away from the abstract and obscure.

Now I find myself branching out and experimenting with short fiction, and thoroughly enjoying this, especially flash fiction.

I have been fortunate to have two poems made into songs and recorded. The first "On the Road to Kingdom Come" by Al Wordlaw, and the second, "If I Could Write a Love Poem" by award-winning Israeli/British singer Tally Koren.

My services increasingly in demand as a freelance writer and I have ghost-written the text for a number of children's books and educational tutorials.

It has taken me many years of searching and restlessness to realise that my life's passion is to write. It saddens me that I wasted so many years not devoting to that, but thinking positively, the experiences gained over those years are now wonderful material for my stories and poems.

I want to try to bring a new focus on poetry and try to make it appealing to a new generation of young people and those who thought they never liked or understood it before.

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John Hansen

Longtime poet but not in the traditional technical sense. I enjoy rhyme but like to experiment and dabble in many different forms and maybe even make up some of my own. There is always a message or lesson I want to promote through my writing, for that reason, my poetry generally shies away from the abstract and obscure. Now I find myself branching out and experimenting with short fiction, and thoroughly enjoying this, especially flash fiction. I have been fortunate to have two poems made into songs and recorded. The first "On the Road to Kingdom Come" by Al Wordlaw, and the second, "If I Could Write a Love Poem" by award-winning Israeli/British singer Tally Koren. My services increasingly in demand as a freelance writer and I have ghost-written the text for a number of children's books and educational tutorials. It has taken me many years of searching and restlessness to realise that my life's passion is to write. It saddens me that I wasted so many years not devoting to that, but thinking positively, the experiences gained over those years are now wonderful material for my stories and poems. I want to try to bring a new focus on poetry and try to make it appealing to a new generation of young people and those who thought they never liked or understood it before.

10 thoughts on “The Monsters May Come Calling”

Tony De Lorger
September 14, 2017 at 12:16 AM
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Well done John, in the shadow of monster are more monsters…love it.
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John HansenPost author
September 14, 2017 at 12:25 AM
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Yes, Tony….there are real monsters out there waiting for you to let your guard down. Thanks for reading. Cheers.
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Phyllis Doyle Burns
September 14, 2017 at 12:34 AM
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Well thanks a lot, John. I am almost ready to go night-night and here you are giving fodder to nightmares. LOL Great poem, scary as hell, but great!
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John HansenPost author
September 14, 2017 at 1:57 AM
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Haha, Phyllis. Sorry if this causes any nightmares. But glad you enjoyed it anyway.
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Paul Neglia
September 14, 2017 at 7:23 PM
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Nice one John. Hits home. The real monsters are way scarier than the costumed ones.
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- John HansenPost author
  September 14, 2017 at 9:40 PM
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  Thank you Paul. Yes, they certainly are.
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R J Schwartz
September 14, 2017 at 7:48 PM
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Love the way you’ve written this John -from fun to dread in so very few lines.
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John HansenPost author
September 14, 2017 at 9:42 PM
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Thank you for reading and commenting, Ralph. I appreciate it. I was pleasantly pleased with the outcome.
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Kurt James
September 15, 2017 at 6:40 PM
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Well done Mr. Hansen – well done…enjoyed very much..
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John HansenPost author
September 15, 2017 at 7:16 PM
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Hi Kurt, and thanks. I am glad you enjoyed my Halloween contribution.
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