POETRY IN MOTION
The Spooky Hollow
Beware of the spooky Hollow
The always used to say
Anyone who went there
Never came away
It's full of ghouls and witches
And creepy crawly things
Even bats can't fly away
They've bitten off their wings
And fairies that they catch at night
Are popped in boiling vats
And turned into a spooky stew
With frogs' legs, newts and rats.
And as a child I feared the place,
It got the widest girth
I wouldn't go within a mile
For anything on earth.
But I grew up, got rational
And laughed those thoughts away.
I went to Spooky Hollow
On a sunny summer's day
And all I saw were violets
And rabbits running wild
Like something from the picture books
I'd looked at when a child
Those awful things they talked about
I couldn't understand.
I walked through Spooky Hollow
And an angel held my hand.
The always used to say
Anyone who went there
Never came away
It's full of ghouls and witches
And creepy crawly things
Even bats can't fly away
They've bitten off their wings
And fairies that they catch at night
Are popped in boiling vats
And turned into a spooky stew
With frogs' legs, newts and rats.
And as a child I feared the place,
It got the widest girth
I wouldn't go within a mile
For anything on earth.
But I grew up, got rational
And laughed those thoughts away.
I went to Spooky Hollow
On a sunny summer's day
And all I saw were violets
And rabbits running wild
Like something from the picture books
I'd looked at when a child
Those awful things they talked about
I couldn't understand.
I walked through Spooky Hollow
And an angel held my hand.
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