hist wist

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hist wist

hist    wist
little ghost things
tip-toe
twinkle-toe

little twitchy
witches and tingling
goblins
hob-a-nob    hob-a-nob

little hoppy happy
toad in tweeds
tweeds
little itchy mousies

with scuttling
eyes    rustle and run    and
hidehidehide
whisk

whisk    look out for the old woman
with the wart on her nose
what she'll do to yer
nobody knows

for she knows the devil    ooch
the devil    ouch
the devil
ach    the great

green
dancing
devil
devil

devil
devil

    wheeEEE

~ e. e. cummings

This has to be one of my all-time favorite Halloween poems. I love all the spooky sounds that e.e. cummings uses: "hist wist", "hob-a-nob", "scuttling", "rustle", "whisk", "ooch, ouch, ach", and of course, the "wheeEEE" at the end!  

Wishing all of my readers 

a frighteningly fun Halloween!