Bags of candy, a spooky night, mysterious bones and an annoying pooch were part of the tapestry of imagination that young poets at Si View came up with in honor of the season.

Members of North Bend resident Jim Curtis’ karate class at Si View Community Center took a departure from the norm in October to try out their poetry skills, with a Halloween twist.

“It’s just to get the kids to go outside the personal boundaries that they may have set for themselves,” said Curtis, the Hanshi or headmaster of Shudokai Karate and Jetsu.

Students were told to write a poem that didn’t have to rhyme, and could be anything they came up with, as long as it wasn’t the typical “roses are red, violets are blue” cliche.

Curtis’ Si View class, for ages 7 through adult, meets 6 to 7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the Si View center, 400 S.E. Orchard Dr. in North Bend. For more information about classes, call (425) 831-1900.

Ghosts and candy

Ghosts and candy

come once a year

Spirits coming

from the shadows,

Children run with bags

full of chocolate

and lollipops

and suckers

At Halloween

Jeff the Halloween Dog

Jeff the Halloween dog

He barks

at my neighbor’s frog

He steals candy

from Bob Randy

As you can see,

he is not very handy

Mr. Jones

I found a pile of bones

They seemed to belong to Mr. Jones.

He was a good fellow.

But now he is a pile of Jello.

When they saw his bones so white

They ran with fright into the night.

They saw no blood that was red.

That’s because he was DEAD!!!

Halloween is a treat

Halloween is a treat,

Halloween is a scare

But if you get scared

You will lose your hair

How Aliens ruled Halloween candy

Ahh! Aliens!

They’re sucking

my Jolly Rancher,

Butter scotch,

Pieces of Hammer

And my brother

Jeff the Parrot

Halloween Poem

Halloween

The dark sky

Candy filling my bag

Pieces of chocolate

Decorated houses

Barking dogs

Halloween!