Theme in Yellow
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 joking.
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
from Chicago Poems, 1916
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
Carl Sandburg biography
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Mirko S18, Jack-o'-lantern in Banovci, 2020. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
"Theme in Yellow" read by Zither P. Oxblood. Courtesy Graveyard Poetry.
Outstanding... I consider Carl Sandburg at the top of the list of American poets...!
ReplyDelete'Theme in Yellow' an odd title, seems, if the subject is 'pumpkin'. Mind you autumn cornfields and harvest moon, yellow. Nice cadence of speech. Like "...I light the prairie cornfields / Orange and tawny gold clusters / And I am called pumpkins..." Fun poem. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
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