Halloween is one week away…let’s get in the mood with a little sumpin’ sumpin’…

The Pumpkins Have Their Day

The pumpkins are gone-
they’ve disappeared!
We don’t know where they’ve gotten!

Why just this week,
we carved them up,
and hoped they’d not go rotten.

But late this eve
I checked outside,
and not one pumpkin was found.

I check the street
to see that not
one pumpkin tossed to the ground.

So late this night,
I sit and ponder,
but pondering is for naught.

A knock at the door,
A creak on the floor,
And now an answer I’ve got!

For there they stood,
a hundred and two,
glaring lanterns in my room.

A fright’ning display,
I tried to run,
but my home would be my tomb.

“A thousand years,
you’ve sliced us up,
and displayed us on your lawn.

“A year from now,
I’m sure you’ll find,
this tradition surely gone.

“Now bend you over,
darling dear,
and let me see your head.

A puncture here,
a slice there,
and surely you’ll be dead!”

A nasty stab,
a little pain,
and the light of a little torch.

The irony is,
here I sit,
A lantern on my front porch.

 - GhOsTwRiTeR KiM

copyright 2006 Kim Condon