The Night No One Comes Home

tag line from the movie Halloween III - Season of the Witch (1982)

No Michael Myers fills the screen
His slasher hands do get a break
This Halloween - the number III
Brings a witch in form of boozy doctor
Whose rowdy antics try to get him laid
As he fumbles to figure out the conspiracy
An evil company creates masks of death
When children wear them
They die on Halloween Night
Androids and Stonehenge circle round
This movie is a disappointment to fans
But still and cult of the “Witch” becomes a classic.


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Written for 13 Days of Poetry Halloween Contest
Day 7 Free Verse
Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme).
In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the reader.

Following the direction of Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot, many modern day poets use this particular form of expression.

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/free.html

Topic-- John Carpenter’s original vision for the “Halloween” series was that each film would be a different spooky story in an anthology format. Yet after the popularity of Michael Myers in the first two films, a slasher-free third chapter was destined to bomb. Luckily, “Witch” became a cult classic thanks to its outrageous plot: An evil company creates masks that kill children wearing them on Halloween night. Oh, and there are a bunch of androids. And Stonehenge is involved. While things don’t quite add up, it’s tons of fun, led by a rowdy Tom Atkins as a boozed-up doctor who is as equally concerned with getting laid as he is with unraveling the conspiracy. — W.E.
Movie- Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982
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