Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Food Poems, Halloween, Holiday Poems
Poetic Techniques: List Poems, Narrative Poems, Pun Poems
Word Count: 67

About This Poem

I actually came up with the last word of this poem earlier this year. It’s what’s called a portmanteau word (pronounced port-man-toe), which means a made-up word created by blending two real words together, like combining breakfast and lunch to make the word “brunch.”

At the time, though, it was the beginning of June, and writing a Halloween poem in the middle of spring didn’t make much sense. So I just jotted the word down in my notes and waited. Now that October is here, I thought it was the perfect time to see if I could turn that one silly word into a whole poem, and this is what I came up with. It’s called “Sticky Sweet Trick-or-Treat.”

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