Sketchbook  Pumpkin Soup

 

Fooled By October Swirling autumn colors, leaves released, Dazzling danse macabre in the fields; Nature's splendor, final glorious feast: Summer's death deceptively revealed. Craig Tigerman

 

Pumpkin Soup it's cold enough for soup now that pumpkins are ripe— orange and hot, they're good harvest's gleaning pumpkins are great for soup— a full bowl at quick glance is a Hunter's Moon, waxing and waning with each dip of the spoon the Great Pumpkin prepares to leave—winter white will too soon arrive in my freezer there is summer squash and sweet cubes of melon now joined with bags of pumpkin cold days will be warmed with these treats keeping winter bright with scents of colander and ginger the moon's a pale rider through cold days of winter but good tucker stretches tummies and smiles Trish Shields

 

Cinqku eating pumpkin soup— no second thoughts: savouring the chef's trick and treat Cristian Mocanu   Limerick There was a chef in Guadeloupe who specialised in pumpkin soup. He cooked, last Halloween, for nine hundred nineteen and said:"a nice, yet too small group!" Cristian Mocanu   Tanka (in grateful remembrance of Franciscan hospitality) All Saints'Day Vespers midway through the prayer Friar Cook joins in just he is undistracted by the steaming pumpkin soup Cristian Mocanu A Chef's Halloween Song an ae freslighe* Oh pumpkin soup, delicious and humble! I salute your thickness, so nutritious which no-one must dilute. For Halloween, seditious minds try to abuse pumpkins. But, however pernicious, to me, they are just bumpkins! This fruit is no malicious Skull-substitute or thriller: It's gentle and auspicious. Oh pumpkin soup, delicious! *a Celtic form, see: http://www.thepoets garret.com/ celtic1.html Cristian Mocanu

 

Three All Saint's Day Haiku November first  candy wrappers litter  the sidewalks  November first  only small pumpkins  still in the field  in the gutter smashed pumpkins  for the birds  Helen Ruggieri

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