Comment from lightink

Excellent

LOL! That quickly escalated into a World War Z scenario! :) A fitting pandemic time Halloween poem!
Sadly, the resulting poverty could be the other, even more dreadful interpretation of this poem :(

At the beginning of the lock down my then 5 yo announced he wanted to be coronavirus for Halloween - but I discouraged this idea...respect towards those who lost so much...

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2020

Jyoti, thank you very much for your review and kind words. Do you think my horror haiku is disrespectful? I don't intend it that way. Would you let me know?

Hugs,

Gypsy

Hugs,

Gypsy

reply by lightink on 15-Oct-2020

Nooooo! I think it's a fun zombie apocalypse.
Just the Halloween+virus theme reminded me of this story...sorry that I was rumbling!

reply by the author on 16-Oct-2020

No worries :)

reply by the author on 16-Oct-2020

I changed the poem, in case you would like to check it out.

reply by lightink on 16-Oct-2020

I liked the previous version, too. This moved away from the present pandemic, alltogether. I didn't think it was desrespectful before, but now there's no more covid context, so if you run into somone who had it, or had losses, it sure won't be association with covid. Again, I liked the original, too.

reply by the author on 16-Oct-2020

Thank you, it was bothering me and I wanted to capture the halloween concept more.

reply by lightink on 16-Oct-2020

Anytime! :)

Comment from mermaids

Excellent

Yes, I miss Dean, he was such a nice person. Excellent horror poem that gives the reader chills. The idea of mutated covid is clever and fits your theme of horror perfectly. Your poem is definitely scary.

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2020

Thank you very much for your review and kind words.

Comment from Teri7

Excellent

This is a very well written Halloween Horror Haiku you have penned for the contest. You used very good descriptive words and very good imagery. Best wishes in the contest. love and blessings, teri

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2020

Thank you very much for your review and kind words.

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

That's a good theme for this year's Halloween theme. It's so difficult to pin down this disease as it seems to affect different people differently. I like your metaphor of "famished cannibals" for Covid19 but wish it would eat itself out of existence.
Best wishes in the contest!

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reply by the author on 15-Oct-2020

''famished cannibals'' is not a metaphor, it's a mutated covid so the patients are real cannibals. It's supposed to be scary. I guess I missed the mark. LoL

Thank you very much, Helen. :)

reply by lyenochka on 15-Oct-2020

Oh! It's like a zombie thing. It's me that missed it!

reply by the author on 15-Oct-2020

I wrote a note about the virus and that I don't mean disrespect. Thank you very much for letting me know.

reply by lyenochka on 16-Oct-2020

I didn't take it as disrespectful. You know more about the Halloween genre. Hope you win lots of contests this month!

reply by the author on 16-Oct-2020

I changed the poem, in case you would like to check it out.

reply by lyenochka on 16-Oct-2020

I reread it! You got the zombie concept really clearly ! Hope you do well in the contest!

reply by the author on 16-Oct-2020

Thank you very much :)