Halloween by Ivy Eastwick & Illus by Hilary Knight

Halloween

The sky was yellow,

 the moon was green,

     and the little old Witch

whispered:              

"Halloween!"            

and, at the word,     

from an ivied tower

thirteen black bats   

  in a black bat shower 

    came fluttering through

 the pea green gloom  

 and rested there         

          on the WITCH'S BROOM!

    (And a Witch's Broom--

pray not forget--        

   is a million times faster

than any JET!)           

        So they went to the moon, 

  and they circled about, 

              then they swept and they swept

 till they swept it out;    

  they swept up the moon

        and they made their flight--

THERE AND BACK  

in a single night.        

                                           --Ivy O. Eastwick

(From Side by Side by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Illus by Hilary Knight)