A collection of resources to help you celebrate the color of Ky, Angela, tawny days, and a sugar night:
- John Greenleaf Whittier's classic "The Pumpkin"
- Robert Burns's "Halloween"
- James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
- Rich folks like punkins too
- Make your own Halloween Poems (Mac OS X)
- The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo by Edward Lear
- Even stoopless studio dwellers have room for pumpkin haiku (write your own in the comments)
carve the fallen moon
buy off the night with candy
domestication
Pumpkin innards splat;
knife slips; seeds slither slimy.
Damn Martha Stewart!
Sorry to interrupt the haikus (nicely done, both!), but my favorite Halloween literary tradition is reading Ray Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree." A great story that reveals the origins of some of the most popular Halloween icons.
yay! i love haikus they're wicked!