Happy Poetry Friday!
I’m bidding farewell to #Inktober with this last October 31st post. And I guess temporarily to fall as today in Chicago we had winter–snow covered everything. I’m hoping ye old pumpkin came down and has put in some good thoughts for all our dwindling plants…
Here’s my itty bitty poem to carry Inktober out for this year… Prompt: ripe
PUMPKIN
Pumpkin’s ripe and ready to go
Ghosts are swaying to and fro
Cat let out a curdling yelp
Baby bats flew off for help
Spider’s crawling all which ways
Witch’s watch covered in haze
Halloween’s here, all ghouls beware
Pumpkins rule at this affair,
They’ll rise
They’ll haunt
They’ll fill your ghoulishness
with ghastly scare…
© 2019 Michelle Kogan
Thinking about all those in California and hoping they find a safe place–and that these horrific fires die down.
Tabatha Yeatts at her blog Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference is hosting the Poetry Friday Roundup. She’s offering up a cornucopia of poetry goodness by Samantha Reynolds, plus even more… So stop by her blog and take it all in–Thanks for hosting Tabatha!
Visit Renée LaTulippe’s site No Water River to find out more about what Poetry Friday is.
Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 
I love the expression on the ghost’s face in your illustration! Congrats on your INKTOBER adventures, Michelle! You did it 🙂
Thanks Tabatha, barely squeaked by. But I did complete my picture book dummy, and got my Portfolio ready for the SCBWI Prairie Writer’s and Illustrator’s Day Conference I’m attending tomorrow.
Fun poem and drawing — your pumpkin looks like he had a good October. 🙂
Thanks Jama, yes he’s among his kind milkweed pods, beetles, and leaves.
Oh, I love your drawing and the very scary tone of your poem, Michelle, perfect for our Halloween goodbye.
Thanks Linda, October always goes too quickly…
Your illustration is adorable and so multi-layered. You made it through inktober! Congrats! What’s next?
I’m amazed by how much you accomplish in a month, Michelle. Love your pumpkiney farewell, but you, no doubt, are ripe and ready for whatever November has to offer!
I love that pumpkin illustration! And your poem is delightful.
I appreciate all the details in your painting. Even the spider is fancy (but I still don’t want to meet it in the flesh) Your poem is just scary enough!
Pumpkin! I like the “curdling yelp” most of all. Highly descriptive. 🙂