Blue Moon On Halloween Night

Halloween Day is for eerie creatures

They come and prowl at night, I fear

Like Witches, Hobgoblins and such things

But let me tell you what else is weird.


While looking at my calendar today

October and November both will share

Two full moons on the 31st

So ghostly creatures best beware.


This October brings to us

A big "Blue Moon" across the sky

You ask, why do they call it that?

I will try and tell you why.


I don't know how that all got started

I know it's not a riddle or rhyme,

What "blue moon" really means is

"A very, very long period of time".


Years ago someone had said

"Once in a Blue Moon", we have two

So down through all the years it goes

This old saying really grew.


Vina Carathers

Halloween Day 2001

I guess you could really say

We usually only have just one,

Just one full moon per month, that is

To rise and come up when day is done.


October almost had two full moons

Tonite it's bright and all aglow!

Weatherman says it has a ring

The Man in the Moon just steals the show.


The other day, I saw a some news

That February 1865 did not have

A full moon at all ~ What a shame!

That's no way for a moon to behave.


I'll tell you this, 'twill be a long time

Before this happens on Halloween

Witches, Goblins and Ghosts beware

Tonite, heed our "Blue Moon" you've seen!