Angela's Halloween Party

Poem written in response to Night of the Demons

Angela's Halloween Party From Hell
Teens come together calling dark forces
As seances go badly wrong and fell
Each finds a death as zombie corpses

Teens come together calling dark forces
Into the night the demons do rise
Each finds a death as zombie corpses
And chase the others to find their demise.

Into the night the demons do rise
Take hold of the souls already sinful
And chase the others to find their demise.
Leaving only the innocence tearful.

Take hold of the souls already sinful
Into the night the demons do rise
Leaving only the innocence tearful.
And chase the others to find their demise.



Line count = 16.



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Written for "13 Poetic Days of Halloween Contest 2025" 
Day 3 Pantoum
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 stanza then 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
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/pantoum.html

Topic-- 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) - I watched a 10 minute clip and it was awful and gory.
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