A halo of light for Hallowe'en?

Candle-light versus cauldron-fright

Hallowe'en is derived from All Hallow's Eve (or Evening) - eve of All Hallows or All Saints Day, as we know: a time of candle-lighting, no doubt: a day for brightening up the encroaching dark of winter and celebrating the good things in life. We pursue the idea today with candle-lit pumpkins and, soon after, with bonfires and fireworks to light up foggy skies, but perhaps we could stretch the centuries-old glow further still, and the warmth and welcome of its gentle light.

Is it not time to move on from Trick or Treat before it loses its sense of fun and fantasy and sinks into the muddy waters of dressed-up begging? Would it not be more fun, positive, and socially acceptable to bring our focus back into the kind, old candle-light? Bring back the lamps and lanterns, the tapers and the oil lamps, and let's get celebrating, rather than scouting for sweets!

How about a picture poem, too, to set the scene?

Poems don't have to rhyme, of course, but if rhymes are required, there are plenty to be found in that dusk-warming candle-light:

light/bright/delight/night/twilight/sight; glow/ago/show/blow/go; warm/storm/ lamp/damp; red/bed; gold/cold; yellow/Hallow (ish); cheery/dreary; rosy/cosy; calm/balm; spark/dark; shiver/quiver; lantern/phantom (ish),
to list but a few.

A haiku would fit well in a candle flame shape (3 lines: 5, 7, 5 syllables respectively); individual words could speak out from the cut-out features of an illuminated pumpkin face; a dialogue would flow compellingly round the outlines of two or three faces together; and lantern-shapes would offer straight writing lines at all angles - ideal for swinging!

Needless to say, candles, oil lamps and all fires and naked flames involved in a flame-focused Hallowe'en would require suitable safety measures. I'm just heating up some ideas!

More poetry possibilities to light up the dark soon.