Count Edweird Lefang’S Rhymin’ Halloween

By Eddie Morales

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465378033

Eddie Morales

Eddie Morales started writing poetry in High School, where he was fi rst introduced to the works of Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, his three favorite poets today, forty years later. In between then and ten years ago, a span of thirty years, he saw a great decline in the area of rhyming poetry. No one rhymed anymore. Today, the beautiful art of rhyme is practically non-existent. Some established poets still rhyme, but you rarely see the works in print. Twelve years ago, Morales attended his fi rst convention, and he was hooked forever on poetry. Although the poems presented were free verse, he listened carefully as he heard many of the poets attending, year after year, express concerns in regards to rhyming poetry. The public clamored for rhyming poetry, but the established poets were not forthcoming. This presented a great opportunity for change, and there was hope for the return of rhyming poetry. And so, a few years ago, Morales published his fi rst book, A Reason For Rhyme, and later published, The Suicide Sonnets. In his third book of poetry, presented here, Count Edweird Lefang’s Rhymin’ Halloween, Morales combines the art of rhyme, utilizing the numerous rhyming forms used by famous poets of the past and present, with humorous and serious fl air that teachers and students as well as the public can all enjoy.

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Copyright © 2011 by Eddie Morales.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011918340

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4653-7802-6

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CONTENTS

Introduction

You Are Horrorfully Invited

Count Lefang’s Chant Royal

Lefang’s Vampire Dreams

A Roundel To My Fangs

A Virelai Nouveau On Being a Vampire

Lefang’s Lie in a Lai

Lefang’s Warning in a Virelai

Count Lefang’s Dilemma

Count Lefang’s Bloody Alliterisen

Count Lefang’s Going Bats

Count Lefang’s Rondeau to Blood

If Looks Could Kill

The Less Pay Shew Stone

A Ghostly Villanelle

Count Dracula

Werewolf

Mummy

Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Ghoul

Ghost

Goblin

Scarecrow

Gremlin

Grim Reaper

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Warlock

Witch

The Skeleton

The Crypt Keeper

Jack-o’-Lantern

Jack the Ripper

Wraith

Zombie

Miss Spider Killer Muffett

Mad Little Bo Peep

Little Red Riding Hoodlum

Homicidal Goldilocks

The Murder of Ravens

Ode To My Ghoulfriend

A Pantoum For The Wrong Twin

The Grim Reaper

Beneath Your Bed

The Deadly Rose

Coven Round The Cauldron

A Sonnet To The Wolf Man

A Terza Rima to the Countess Lefang

A Rhyming Sestina for the Bride

I’m Not Afraid of Creepy Things

A Dilemma In A Double Rondelet

A Rondeau to Frankie

Little Moe Creep

A Spenserian Sonnet to the Queen Banshee Eve Aul

Medusa’s Love Song

A Triolet to a Vampire’s Immortality

The Death of Karetta Tress

Here Comes the Boggelbugge!

The Mummy’s Curse

The Frankenstein Monster

Halloween Haiku

Fright Night

A Douzet From The Werewolf

The Devil’s Blood Violin

The Ballad of the Invisible Man

Rondeau Redoublé from Lady Blayne to Count Lefang

Ballade To The Vamp Lady Blayne

Ballade to the Bride of Frankenstein

Double Ballad of the Wicked Pumpkin King

Double Refrain Ballad of the Scarecrow of Creepy Hollow

A Rhyme Royal from the Black Widow

The Death of the Demon Captain Ben Gravely

An Ogre’s Complaint

Dining With Death

Haunted Oaks and Weeping Willows

Saving Bloody Mary

Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde

Arachnophilia

Not Death Us Do Part

The Night Johnny Jilted Ophelia

When The Night Wind Howls

Waking the Warlock Tolodo

Don’t Be Afraid Of the Dark

The Coffin In My Cellar

The Apparition

The Frankenstein Conflict

The Talking

Treat ’r Trick

Some of Count Lefang’s Favorite Movie Antagonists

This book is dedicated

to my mother

Sara Morales

and

in loving memory of my father

Juan Papita Morales

INTRODUCTION

After having completed two books of poetry of a more serious nature, A Reason for Rhyme and The Suicide Sonnets, I thought it was time for a book of rhyming poetry that would be more fun than serious, or at least of a topic that could be fun and serious.

A few years ago I wrote for a Halloween poetry recital several limericks which went over well. Afterwards, I thought it would be nice to have a book of poetry with Halloween as the theme. Well, first I went to the bookstore to see what types of books were available on this theme and found much of the poetry more for the younger audience. There weren’t any books made for teenagers or adults in this area, so I went to the Internet. I searched once more for Halloween poetry, and again I found most of the poetry was for young children. Taking it one step further, I looked for Halloween poems by famous poets, and I found a few, but not much. Most of my searches brought up the same poets and poems. Some of these poems were, The Apparition by John Donne; A Dream Within a Dream, The Haunted Palace, Dreamland, and The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe; Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson; the Cambridge ladies