Havisham's Halloween Tea

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This is a reposting of my last year's Halloween decor in the dining room.

I was inspired by Great Expectations.

This is Ms. Havisham's Halloween.

A spooky couple reside a top the wedding cake,

awaiting guests who will never come.

a wedding cake of tissue paper flowers will do

the only guests, mice, bats and crows

spiders too

a spooky spectacle

a reminder of a day not so happy for the bride to be

of happiness that will not be

a spooky candelabra lights the table

frozen smiles

uninviteds feast on the celebratory meal

bats swirl about the banquet

bats swirl about

the celebration that never comes

I missed "Great Expectations" last year with Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.

I must find it on dvd and watch this year.

Here's the trailer for it...
HBC looks very good in it but then she always is.

 - Havisham -

Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then

I haven't wished him dead. Prayed for it

so hard I've dark green pebbles for eyes,

ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.

Spinster. 

I stink and remember. Whole days

in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress

yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;

the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this

to me? 

Puce curses that are sounds not words.

Some nights better, the lost body over me,

my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear

then down till suddenly bite awake. 

Love's hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting

in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding cake.

Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon.

Don't think it's only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.

Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy

Isn't this the perfect Halloween poem?

Heartbreaking, it is.

If you are visiting from Vanessa's party...be sure to check out my previous posts this month. 

There is more Halloween decor and crafts too!

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