Autumn Moon

First chill of Fall
In the air
Sights and sounds
of Halloween
Everywhere
Preparing for the arrival
of my kind and gentle
Monster
Knocking on my chamber
Door
as many times
Before
Ready to spend some
Time
with his adoring
children
Listen
Beyond the rustling
wind
Can you hear the
Wolfman
Howling in the
Shadows
Near the wolf-bane bloom
Illuminated by the
Autumn Moon
The dead rise
From their graves
and crumbling tombs
My;My
They just don’t make
Bogeymen
Like they used to
Everything is just right
all my classic Universal
Monster friends
Are with me
tonight
Boris as my guide
“Frankenstein” graces my
television screen
In glorious black and white
The thunder roars
The lightning strikes
a lifeless body awaits
new life
a monstrous life
Henry Frankenstein begins
to scream
” It’s alive!!! “I’ts alive!!!”
“It’s alive!!!”
words
spoken by Colin Clive
82 years later
It’s still alive
Greatest horror film
of all time.

– Michael Shayne Bryant