The author does not profess to know what goes through an individual's mind during those times when the individual is contemplating, for whatever reasons, the futility of living. The author is an optimist by nature. Even so, the author makes a sane and intelligent deduction as to the emotions felt during such times. Haunting, here, is the fact that these poems are about teens under the age of eighteen. To be so young, and feel life is a futile endeavor, is truly a tragedy. However, the author makes an honest and sincere attempt to steer such negative emotions towards a more positive outcome, but to realize this the poems must be read all the way through to the last poem.

If you are looking for the definitive book on Halloween poetry while at the same time looking for examples of the various rhyming forms that exist in any time period, then this is the book for you. It has many of the characters of horror, many of the rhyming forms, and all made fun by the author's expertise on the subject of poetry, and his knowledge of the two makes for a wonderful read. Once you start reading Count Edweird Lefang's Rhymin' Halloween you will not be able to put it down, and once you finish reading it you will want to read it over and over again. It is a rousing lyrical combination of Halloween and poetry, both in form and subject. Sonnet, villanelle, rhyming sestina, rondeau redouble, limerick, roundel, rhyming haiku, Pantoum, Terza Rima, and ballad, among others, are fair game, and they get coupled with the characters of horror films. And the poems' titles are just as much fun as the verses themselves, such as, "A Triolet to a Vampire's Immortality," "A Douzet from the Werewolf," and "Ode to My Ghoulfriend." Some poems are funny, some are creepy, and some are sad, but all of them share an intensity and earnestness that demonstrate the author's respect for the poem as a form of art used to convey story, emotion, and ideas. It is also a viable teaching tool as well, which allows the student of poetry to learn about the different rhyming forms in a manner more conducive to experimentation of the forms. Inside, the poems are printed in a Gothic font, which may inspire the reader to recite the poems aloud, as poems are meant to be read, and either shout them in mournful tones, if a ghost or Frankenstein's monster happens to be the narrator.

Halloween and poetry, not just a great combination, but a fun way of learning about sonnets, villanelles, terza rimas, ballads, pantoums, rhyming haiku, rhyming sestina, and many others, which teachers and students, as well as the public, can all enjoy Mostly fun

A wonderful blend of poems to include love, romance, beauty, humor, and the poet's own sentimental expressions for this marvelous form of writing. A wonderful potpourri of poems.

The art of rhyme is taking hold once again after more than thirty years of almost non-existence in the marketplace. Now called The Neo-Formalist Movement, rhyme is slowly masking a comeback and this author wanted to be ready for it, and wrote his own book of rhyming poetry.