Happy Halloween!
Oct. 31st, 2005 06:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitThe day is here! Happy Halloween, Happy Samhain, and Happy Day of the Dead!
And happy birthday to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greenhoodloxley, who showed very good taste in being born this day. May you have a wonderful birthday and many, many more!
Just call me FrankenPumpkin...
And now, for the poem I saved just for today. The very last lines are my favorites.
The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,
And the trees have a silver glare;
Past the chimneys high see the vampires fly,
And the harpies of upper air,
That flutter and laugh and stare.
For the village dead to the moon outspread
Never shone in the sunset's gleam,
But grew out of the deep that the dead years keep
Where the rivers of madness stream
Down the gulfs to a pit of dream.
A chill wind blows through the rows of sheaves
In the meadows that shimmer pale,
And comes to twine where the headstones shine
And the ghouls of the churchyard wail
For harvests that fly and fail.
Not a breath of the strange grey gods of change
That tore from the past its own
Can quicken this hour, when a spectral power
Spreads sleep o'er the cosmic throne,
And looses the vast unknown.
So here again stretch the vale and plain
That moons long-forgotten saw,
And the dead leap gay in the pallid ray,
Sprung out of the tomb's black maw
To shake all the world with awe.
And all that the morn shall greet forlorn,
The ugliness and the pest
Of rows where thick rise the stones and brick,
Shall some day be with the rest,
And brood with the shades unblest.
Then wild in the dark let the lemurs bark,
And the leprous spires ascend;
For new and old alike in the fold
Of horror and death are penned,
For the hounds of Time to rend.
"Hallowe'en in a Suburb" by H. P. Lovecraft
And happy birthday to
greenhoodloxley, who showed very good taste in being born this day. May you have a wonderful birthday and many, many more!Just call me FrankenPumpkin...
| You Are |
 A Franken Pumpkin Face You would make a good deformed pumpkin. |
And now, for the poem I saved just for today. The very last lines are my favorites.
The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,
And the trees have a silver glare;
Past the chimneys high see the vampires fly,
And the harpies of upper air,
That flutter and laugh and stare.
For the village dead to the moon outspread
Never shone in the sunset's gleam,
But grew out of the deep that the dead years keep
Where the rivers of madness stream
Down the gulfs to a pit of dream.
A chill wind blows through the rows of sheaves
In the meadows that shimmer pale,
And comes to twine where the headstones shine
And the ghouls of the churchyard wail
For harvests that fly and fail.
Not a breath of the strange grey gods of change
That tore from the past its own
Can quicken this hour, when a spectral power
Spreads sleep o'er the cosmic throne,
And looses the vast unknown.
So here again stretch the vale and plain
That moons long-forgotten saw,
And the dead leap gay in the pallid ray,
Sprung out of the tomb's black maw
To shake all the world with awe.
And all that the morn shall greet forlorn,
The ugliness and the pest
Of rows where thick rise the stones and brick,
Shall some day be with the rest,
And brood with the shades unblest.
Then wild in the dark let the lemurs bark,
And the leprous spires ascend;
For new and old alike in the fold
Of horror and death are penned,
For the hounds of Time to rend.
"Hallowe'en in a Suburb" by H. P. Lovecraft
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Happy Halloween! Happy Samhain!
Date: 2005-10-31 12:42 pm (UTC)A Classic Pumpkin Face
You would make a good pumpkin pie.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm .... did someone say pumpkin pie?
Now, if I can just get through the day without dipping into that candy bowl!! LOL
Re: Happy Halloween! Happy Samhain!
Date: 2005-10-31 01:03 pm (UTC)Mmmm, candy... ::drools::
LOL!
no subject
Date: 2005-10-31 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-31 05:41 pm (UTC)Eek, I'm an angry pumpkin
Date: 2005-10-31 03:30 pm (UTC)Aww, thank you!
An Angry Pumpkin Face
You would make a good smashed pumpkin.
Re: Eek, I'm an angry pumpkin
Date: 2005-10-31 05:41 pm (UTC)Lovely Poem
Date: 2005-10-31 04:53 pm (UTC)A Silly Pumpkin Face
You would make good pumpkin taffy.
Re: Lovely Poem
Date: 2005-10-31 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-01 12:41 am (UTC)*mourns end of the month*
I've so enjoyed your October lead-up to Halloween! so much fun. thanks for all the fabulous, ear-candy gifts and excellent poems. I particularly like this one today. it's not one I've read before. and what's not to love about lemurs barking?