POETRY COMPETITION
What's in a name
The naming of pumpkins is a strange affair,
It is such an innocent matter;
Naming a pumpkin should be done with care,
not rushed into with almighty clatter.
It all begins on that magic morn,
that misty hazy snowy rainy day;
when the seed becomes a baby born,
on high the trumpets sound reveille.
In the kitchen Ma adept with eggs a'frying,
the others wrestling with sleepy eyes,
cereals, jam, marmalade and toast a'flying,
to Dad the family say a tearful goodbye.
The guy who lives in the shed on the patch,
for half a year he he plays the pumpkin game,
but friends countrymen and others here's the catch,
how in tarnation does he choose a name.
Over the years he picked all the obvious names,
the wife's mother's youngest brother's cousin,
a rather rotund orange faced guy called Baines,
he needs to make a decision the bees are buzzin!
The naming of pumpkins is a strange affair,
it is not such an innocent matter;
naming a pumpkin should be done with care,
how about "The Mad Hatter"
David Asman
With apologies to T. S. Eliot
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