Thread: oh! to be little again..a poem

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Oh! to be little again.....by KPRIMM

Oh! TO BE LITTLE JUST ONE MORE TIME
TRICK OR TREATING ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT.
MY PILLOW CASE BURSTING WITH CANDY AND TREATS
AND MY COSTUME WAS LOOKING JUST RIGHT.

WAITING ALL YEAR FOR THAT ONE SPECIAL NIGHT
TO BE WHATEVER I WANTED TO BE.
BEN COOPER COSTUMES RIGHT THERE IN THE BOX,
NOW THIS YEAR WICH ONE SHALL I BE?

HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS AND COOL SCARY PROPS,
NOW OLDER, STILL HAVE GREAT APPEAL.
BUT WHEN I WAS LITTLE EACH PROP THAT I SAW,
WAS MAGICALLY SCARY AND REAL.

I RAN HOUSE TO HOUSE JUST AS FAST AS I COULD,
TRYING TO COVER THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD.
MY FRIENDS RIGHT BEHIND ME AND DAD IN PURSUIT,
HURRY! LET'S HURRY AND GATHER OUR LOOT.

OH! THE SWEET MEMORIES OF HALLOWEEN'S PAST,
TO RE-LIVE EVERYONE WOULD SURE BE A BLAST.
THE YEARS KEEP ON ROLLING BY,OH SO DARN FAST,
SWEET YOUTH, IT SURE GOES BY FAST.

**SIGH!!**

You've just reminded me of running from house to house in the dark with my little brother, filling our plastic pumpkins and grocery bags until we had to go home and dump the haul before heading out again--and doing that seemingly all evening. I miss costumes that came folded in boxes with the plastic mask visible through the cellophane window on top!! Waah!! If that makes me a wussy, I don't care!!

Sweet poem. Thanks for the memories.

spot on with the poem. It brings back memories of how magical Halloween was as a little TOT.

another hit there. maybe that is part why we haunt, to savor in youth

Yeah it would be great to go trick or treating again. I can still do this vicariously through my niece however.

Boy does that bring old memories. To be a kid again for just one Halloween
night! It wasn't just the trick-or-treating either. A fe pranks here and there
too. I remember they had a big black cauldron out in front of the hardware
store where you could get a cup of Witches Brew......which strangely tasted
like hot chocolate.

I took my niece trick-or-treating in 2005......made me feel like a kid again.

Yes the great happy memories.They are still great now also, it's just that the being a kid part is so fleeting.