What does it mean to be a pumpkin in November? What happens to you after you have been carved or painted? Or do you turn into a pie? Are you a pumpkin that gets smashed onto the sidewalk? Or do you stay on someone's porch until the next spring? Maybe you never got picked and are still at a pumpkin patch, waiting...

Your job is to "become" a pumpkin and determine your fate. You are to write a poem, in any format you choose, describing your life after Halloween.

Here are some adjectives/ideas to get you started:

• terrified
• moldy
• rotten
• smelly
• shriveled
• wrinkled
• soggy
• rancid
• nervous
• lonely
• worried
• hopeless
• broken
• worried
• delicious
• tasty
• spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg

Other useful words:

• jack o'lantern
• carved
• stem
• stalk
• Halloween

This page last updated on December 9, 2005