Toad Jam! And Eye of Bat etc...

Happy Hallowe'en to you all! Nearly.
We have, of course, had two Hallowe'en parties already and I'm a little Halloverloaded with costumes and pumpkins already.
But luckily Nanu's Poetry Jam challenge coincided nicely with Imaginary Garden with Toads Sunday challenge, here:
http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2011/10/mini-challenge-for-sunday_30.html

I have thus merged the Waltz Wave Form with Nanu's direction: I don't want a spooky scary Halloween-as-usual poem. Give us a day-before poem. Something coming up to an event, after which all is different.

I'm sure the Jammers will be here soon, but at the moment the linky thing has rather spookily disappeared...
http://poetryjaam.blogspot.com/2011/10/hallows-eve.html

Anyway, here we go.


Long Gone

On
leaving
two
children
at his door
I felt
free,
thinking
him better
than I to raise
young spirits.
Next day
I
grew up
and took steps
to fetch
them.
They were
ghosts.