Halloween Sonnet Contest: Halloween Ultimatum, David Raphael Israel
California-born, David Raphael Israel attended a Quaker school (writing poetry from
grasshopper height), studied classical Chinese at Berkeley, and pursued music journalism at
EAR Magazine (NYC) in the late 1980s. Poems of his can be found in the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English.
grasshopper height), studied classical Chinese at Berkeley, and pursued music journalism at
EAR Magazine (NYC) in the late 1980s. Poems of his can be found in the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English.
Halloween Ultimatum
John
Keats took birth on Halloween
as
the internet has made well-known
no
other such tidbits that I've
seen
in
similar wise my mind have blown
Halloween
now seems too vague to me
I
observe it as an American
rite
alike
Easter & Labor Day how poetry
relates
to mimicked ghosts seems slight
whereas
here you seek a sonnet turned
toward
the topic of this occasion
who
in their candy-bag has discerned
rites
European? Mexican? Asian?
bring
me a Halloween globally sourced
or
from vapid rites let me be divorced
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