Fear's Whispered Ingenuity

It was All Hallow's Eve; a scary time,
bent-backed witches cackled paws into lives,
magical night wraps up delicate rhyme
while battered ghosts howl to wide-eyed captives.

Bent-backed witches cackled paws into lives;
full of fear's whispered ingenuity,
while battered ghosts howl to wide-eyed captives
trials and tribulations taste so nasty.

Full of fear's whispered ingenuity,
the children shivered excitement's language,
trials and tribulations taste so nasty
as blood stains a mummy's ancient bandage.

The children shivered excitement's language,
natural instincts crawling with maggots,
as blood stains a mummy's ancient bandage
vampires rise from traditional caskets.

Natural instincts crawling with maggots
whip up a feast in the old atmosphere,
vampires rise from traditional caskets
with teeth ready to become quite severe.

Whip up a feast in the old atmosphere;
blood and gut covered candy is sweet delight,
with teeth ready to become quite severe
werewolves spiral their laughter into fright.

Blood and gut covered candy is sweet delight,
magical night wraps up delicate rhyme,
werewolves spiral their laughter into fright,
it was All Hallow's Eve; a scary time.

The pantoum is a rare form of poetry similar to a villanelle. It is composed of a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. This pattern continues for any number of stanzas, until the final stanza, which usually contains the first and third lines of the first stanza as its second and fourth lines. Often, the final stanza's fourth line is the poem's first, and the third line of the poem may or may not appear as the second line of the final stanza. Ideally, the meaning of lines shifts when they are repeated although the words remain exactly the same: this can be done by shifting punctuation, punning, or simply recontextualizing. The pantoum is originally Malayan and is adopted infrequently to English.