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Day 3 - Demons Loose'd in the Night - Pantoum Poem

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13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025  (E) Let your spooky poetry shine. Oct. 13th 12:01 am WDC time. - closes 11:59 pm WDC Oct 25th #2328177 by Witchy Yule Woman

Pantoum Style of Poetry ▶︎

The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.

The design is simple:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4

Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8

Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanzathen repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.

Last stanza:
Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza

Night of Demons Movie Prompt 1988 ▶︎

A Halloween party at a funeral parlor goes haywire once a séance conjures supernatural spookies, leaving the teens in attendance scrambling to escape. Retro in ways both fantastic (The dialogue! The costumes! The stock characters!) and horribly dated (seriously, has a film ever been more lecherous anytime a young woman comes onscreen?), “Demons” is a perfect representation of ‘80s horror that somehow hasn’t developed the following it deserves. — W.E. Movie-- Night of the Demons (1988)

Demons Loose'd in the Night

Birthdays and hauntings all in one
Old man curses on the eve
Cracks in the mirror all for fun
Leaves not a soul to grieve

Old man curses on the eve
Demons on a whisper in the old haunted house
Leaves not a soul to grieve
Blood and fear on her blouse

Demons on a whisper in the old haunted house
Pounding on the crack’d looking glass
Blood and fear on her blouse
Loose’d on a touch of brass

Pounding on the crack’d looking glass
Cracks in the mirror all for fun
Loose’d on a touch of brass
Birthdays and Hauntings all in one

Line Count: 16


Night of Demons Movie Trailer 1988 ▶︎