Poetry Sunday

The month of October this year has five Saturdays and four Sundays for us to use for our Halloween-themed Cartoon Saturdays and Poetry Sundays. Today is our first Poetry Sunday for the scary season, and we turn to American poet Carl Sandburg to paint the picture ...

Theme in Yellow

by Carl Sandburg

I spot the hills

With yellow balls in autumn.

I light the prairie cornfields

Orange and tawny gold clusters

And I am called pumpkins.

On the last of October

When dusk is fallen

Children join hands

And circle round me

Singing ghost songs

And love to the harvest moon;

I am a jack-o’-lantern

With terrible teeth

And the children know

I am fooling.

I hope you enjoyed this poem ... and I am not fooling.

Have a good day and enjoy the rest of your weekend as we draw nearer to Halloween! More thoughts coming.

Bilbo