Halloween (Haibun)

Halloween
All hallows eve or Halloween it doesn’t really matter. Whether you believe in Celtic Samhain or festivals of the dead we go out and about in costumes en-masse a riot of colour and clatter. Children bob for apples and trick or treat the neighbours while parents hold their parties of those I’ll take the latter.

all hallows eve
pagan rituals of old
now made new

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Author Notes

This was my first attempt at a haibun