Comment from Anya Dawn

Exceptional

Hi adewpearl,

wow o wow... your poetry never fails to amaze me. I like this one, too especially the last stanza

The witching hour has claimed the night
with claws that shred and teeth that bite,
with fangs whose venom causes blight.

Thanks for the info too about the different names a moon gets every month. Why do you think Oct's mmon is called hunters' moon? is it because of the hunting season? Or influenced by Halloween? Hallow's Eve falls on 31st Oct this year right? Or is it the 1st of Nov?

thanks for sharing!

God Bless,
AnYa ;-)

 Comment Written 17-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 17-Oct-2009

Yes, I think it relates mostly to hunting season. Halloween is October 31 every year, as far as I know. Thanks so much, Anya, for your wonderfully generous review and your encouraging comments :-) Brooke

Comment from Oatmeal

Excellent

adewpearl,

Vivid impressions and rich narration, all lines formatted very well. The rhyming was well done. Well chosen words are expressive.

Not any problem or error.

I look forward to seeing you again.

Love you,

Oatmeal

 Comment Written 17-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 17-Oct-2009

Thank you, Oatmeal, for your supportive review. Brooke :-)

Comment from barbara.wilkey

Excellent

Once again you educated me. I didn't know that a full moon is given a different name each month. I had only heard it called a harvest moon in the fall. Wow. And once again you showed it in a wonderfully written poem.

 Comment Written 17-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 17-Oct-2009

Thank you, Barbara - the list of names is quite poetic. :-) Brooke

Comment from skye

Excellent

Excellent Halloween poem.
It is filled with so many traditional images of this holiday that we love and hate at the same time.
Love the treats, hate the tricks and the dark feelings.
Very well done.

 Comment Written 17-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 17-Oct-2009

Thank you, Skye - I appreciate your thoughtful review :-) Brooke

Comment from RebelRose

Excellent

Great Halloween poem with good imagery. I can see and hear in my mind what is taking place here. The lines have a smooth flow with good structure.

 Comment Written 17-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 17-Oct-2009

Thank you, Rose :-) I appreciate your encouragement :-) Brooke

Comment from BJean

Excellent

Being in bed definitely sounds like a more comforting place to me, too. Especially since I get too spoofed at scary movies:) Good halloween poem in great form. I always like your choice of words that thyme. Jean

 Comment Written 17-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 17-Oct-2009

Jean, thank you, and good morning! I LOVE scary movies - but Hitchcock kind of movies, not the slasher ones of today where there is no suspense, just on screen blood-letting. Brooke :-)

Comment from Hitcher

Excellent

I do like the hunters moon, it give way to so many possibilities, you have used it well Brooke, the first stanza stole the show for me friend, which is the way to draw the reader in, once you've got em, you've got em! Nicely done friend.

 Comment Written 17-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 17-Oct-2009

Thank you, Hitch - Glad you liked that first verse :-) Brooke

Comment from smileycloud

Excellent

hey
once again you have expressed a scene that litterally lives and breathes on the page
halloween could not be more prominent than in this piece
the flow; the rhyme are all excellent
the content is demanding of the imagination
have a smiley day

 Comment Written 16-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 16-Oct-2009

Thank you, smileycloud - so glad this projected the Halloween mood for you :-) Brooke

Comment from sara-beth

Excellent

I really like this rhyme scheme, it's great for Halloweenish writing! Wolves are so scary. In my town we have a lot of coyotes wandering around, and whenever I see one I feel just like how your poem made me feel!

 Comment Written 16-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 16-Oct-2009

Thank you, Sara-beth - that howling sure can create a mood. Brooke :-)

Comment from LauraKatherine

Excellent

"hunter's moon" (I had never heard the October full moon called this before, but it seems appropriate; the hunting theme works well with the rest of the poem's images: the wild animals hunting their prey, the venom and death and terror that hunters cause their prey. I almost felt as though the narrator was one of the prey, too, afraid of the shrieks of the soon-dead, cringing at the howls and screeches, a mind filling with doom and dread, desiring to stay safe in bed)

A spooky poem. You've captured the atmosphere of the witching hour of the full moon through masterful descriptions:
full-throated howls

bleeding red (so appropriate for a poem where death lurks in the darkness as wild beasts come for their prey; hunting requires bloodshed, and for the "hunter's moon" to be bleeding is vivid and a bit creepy)

if silence comes, a twig will snap (and I could "hear" it snap when I read this line!)

yelp and yap (another great phrase that I could "hear" in my head)

hapless fawns

one soon dead

claws that shred (I could almost "feel" my skin shred from their claws)

Now I'm wondering why you didn't stay in bed! And what are the other names for the full moon? Excellent poem. Gave me shivers. LK

 Comment Written 16-Oct-2009

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reply by the author on 16-Oct-2009

Wikipedia has a great list of the names of the moon, many of which are really poetic. :-) Thank you for such observant comments - so glad the spookiness came across :-) Brooke