National Tell A Story Day April 27th

I'm posting to City Daily Photo  and Words for Wednesday the April 21st posting From The Other Side of Sixty The words will be this shade!

 Did you know today is,

  National Tell A Story Day, on this April 27th 2021.

Playing With Pumpkins

Being a defender of all pumpkins

 more than you would imagine 

 residing in strange places.

Confessing my desire to uncover their whereabouts

before any slaughter or carving begins.

 

Bridges by water all the better to look my dear.

Eliminate colourless  pumpkins for obvious reasons. 

Pumpkins have long noses for reading

 must check bookstores and artsy shops

 yet their birth places are more 

earthly than you'd imagine.

Their many relatives can turnip

while others in their family squash or beet 

and jockey about other fellow relatives

hollowed out or not

it's all in good jack o' lantern fun!

Yet being the most magical of all plants 

 they can become a coach in a flash.

But when midnight strikes 

once again they're confronted with harsh realities of life. 

Defining cookie-cutter-features

often fat, orange, rough and round creatures

carved with silly or scary expressions

and toothless grins under glowing eyes

and the occasional furry moustache attached 

each perform in a frightful plight

of a vast sea of orange hiding in nearby patches

but their biggest fear is hearing,

anyone desire a cinnamon-streusel pumpkin muffin?

Turn on the oven!

Oh the wickedness!

Clear vision is the answer to solving puzzles.

and good whiskey upon rising theometers!

Allow yourself to venture.

Sorry, barnacles can't grow clues.

Even a stream of sophisticated narrative techniques

 won't enlighten this search.

 

Where oh where could all the pumpkins be?

Paving the way across this cobblestone lane

step by step all the way home again to find

my very own Pumpkin person.

and in the end

"Only a knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

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