Halloweenie - Haiku

rustle of dried leaves

are heard this Octobers night,

yet the trees are bare

in twinkling twilight

movement in stagnant water,

life forms in shadow

maples skeleton

cast shadows in the garden,

stick leaves join the dance

lit carved pumpkins

cast an otherworldly glow,

flame extinguished

blood of ancestors

in the ole burying ground

still beat in my heart