In October of 2018, I joined AllPoetry.com and set about writing 31 poems: one for each day of the month, leading up to Hallowe’en. I wasn’t a great writer at the time ― I’m still not, but I like to think I’ve improved quite a lot since then.
Sometimes I look back on my old works and I think that there are some good ideas, and some flawed execution riddled with awkward wording and pacing. So, it might not be Hallowe’en, and it might be completely the wrong time of year in the minds of some to be thinking about the strange, dark and frightening, but I say to the pits with all that. I want to re-write my old poems, and that’s exactly what I’ve done.
Thus I present to you, the Hallowe’en 2018, Rewritten collection: 31 poems, hopefully creepy in some ways, all of them hopefully improved quite a bit. Some have changed quite drastically; for others I’ve only fixed the parts that didn’t work. But I hope you enjoy them all, or at least one of them.
- Murdo