If you haven’t participated in a poetry circle, I invite you to join us this Thursday evening, October 27th at 6:00 pm at the Burrowing Owl Bookstore in Canyon. This small group is an excellent spot to share your poetry or read some favorite verses, or just listen.
Since it’s nearly Halloween, I hope we’ll hear some scary works by our local poets. Here is one of my favorite scary poems, “The Hag” by Robert Herrick who is well known for his lyrical poems, “Gather Ye Rosebuds” but can turn a pretty scary line:
The Hag
The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne'r so foule be the weather.
A Thorn or a Burr
She takes for a Spurre:
With a lash of a Bramble she rides now,
Through Brakes and through Bryars,
O're Ditches, and Mires,
She followes the Spirit that guides now.
No Beast, for his food,
Dares now range the wood;
But husht in his laire he lies lurking:
While mischiefs, by these,
On Land and on Seas,
At noone of Night are working,
The storme will arise,
And trouble the skies;
This night, and more for the wonder,
The ghost from the Tomb
Affrighted shall come,
Cal'd out by the clap of the Thunder.
This poem is in the public domain.