Andrea Dietrich Poet Limerick

A White Pumpkin Family Review

Cotton Candy is a pumpkin who
Is known as White Pepo too.
Her nice rounded shell
She keeps very well,
And one day she met Baby Boo.

Baby Boo is quite small, and at night
He might glow, an albino pure white.
He is both good looking
And good at cooking!
He and white Pepo make a rare sight.

Cotton Candy (White Pepo) and he
Got together, and baby made three.
With skin color cream,
The baby’s a dream
And he’s part of the Ghost family.

Like his Mom, maybe better, is he.
Ghost can keep for a long time and be
Just like his Dad too.
Like that small Baby Boo,
In the oven he can bake sweetly.

Another White pumpkin, meanwhile,
In Carol’s patch sat on a pile.
Smooth, round and pure white,
An adorable sight,
Is this pumpkin with decorative style.

Other pumpkins can read this and weep
For Halloween has a new peep!
For MINE, cute and small,
Has the name of Snowball
And clear up to Christmas can keep!

For Carol Brown's 
"What No Orange Pumpkin" Poetry Contest

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Debbie Duncan April 30, 2013 at 9:20 AM very cute Andrea , I see why you won with it ;} thanks for reading RED again. Have a great day ;}

Olusegun Arowolo November 18, 2011 at 4:47 PM Nice poem,Andrea.Congratulations on your well deserved win.......staycool......

Linda-Marie Sweetheart November 17, 2011 at 10:05 PM way to go Andrea...congrats on another grand win.. a wow wonder write luv...

John Freeman November 17, 2011 at 5:02 PM Haaaaa! cool lines Andrea. Congrats on your worthy win. Agape, Moses

Ralph Taylor November 17, 2011 at 4:28 PM Congrats, Andrea. Awesome write. Enjoyed. Kudos. Nice going. luv Ralph

Joyce Johnson November 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM Well you seem very researched on the white pumpkin story. Congratulations on a great poem and great win. Love, Joyce

Carol Sunshine Brown November 17, 2011 at 12:53 PM Congratulations on your placement in my "What No Orange Pumpkin" contest Andrea. Love, Carol

Phyllis Babcock November 1, 2011 at 9:41 PM White pumpkins eh? well I can honestly agree with Joyce that many foods do not taste like foods anymore and that is the reason I like to grown my own. Nice poem on pumpkins. Good luck in the contest. love phyl

Joyce Johnson November 1, 2011 at 12:15 AM Great writing Andrea. I wasn't very nice in my assessment of the white pumpkin. It is because I am so unhappy about what they have done to our foods, just to give them long shelf life. Maybe white aren't in that ilk. I get no enjoyment of corn on the cob anymore and I used to love it. They have sweetened it up ad nauseum. As well as strawberries now taste like wood and watermelon has no texture and something has happened to canteloupe. Chicken tastes like no chicken from the farm ever tasted and I could go on and on. My brother went through several cartons of diet pepsi a week. I tried to get him to drink the sweetened kind but he said it didn't taste right. I think along with all of the medicines he took that it was the cause of his kidney failure. Joyce

Dalila Agtani October 31, 2011 at 11:43 PM I read this one this morning andrea. I cam back again to read it. Your poem is very rich in words and imagery. I wish you luck in the contest. Shhh, I am letting you know I am flying tomorrow to my dream trip! I will check on your works again when I am there. It is a 16 hours, long tedious trip. Happy Halloween! Love Dalila

Joe Maverick October 31, 2011 at 1:32 PM I think i shall have some pumpkin at christmass after reading this Andrea... enjoyed my friend.!

Wilma Neels October 31, 2011 at 12:10 PM I love that you can transport me to where this is taking place.. enjoyed the journey, wishing you the best for the contest :) love wilma

Doris Culverhouse October 31, 2011 at 11:48 AM enjoyed your work....yeah I had liked kutcher but enough I say with the nudity.

Sara Kendrick October 31, 2011 at 10:06 AM Cute one..Good luck in Carol's contest.Reads like a winner to me..Those white pumpkins add a little interest to the Halloween choices..Thanks for stopping by, reading, looking and commenting..Sara

Jack Horne October 31, 2011 at 9:55 AM LOL, love this witty piece, Andrea. What a good idea to keep Snowball for Xmas too : )

Charles Henderson October 31, 2011 at 1:12 AM the lamps go out is the same as the last. Andy I think you have a misconception that the content can make a haiku, but it can not. Light go out has two parts. the lights and the giggle and the cut. Senry would just say "the light go out and I hear giggles" there's a big difference.

Charles Henderson October 30, 2011 at 11:10 PM the definition of a haiku is and has been three lines of poetry. two lines which form a phrase and one line which is a fragment (the subject). The fragment can go above the phrase or below it but never between. The two lines of the phrase have to link grammatically and conceptually to each other and be related in some way to the fragment, either directly or opposing. but in a way to recognize a shift from a sensory perception in the first part of the poem to another in the second part.

Nette Onclaud October 30, 2011 at 11:08 PM heartie, love the storybook feel of this one.. grreat, whot!

Charles Henderson October 30, 2011 at 10:56 PM i don't think you have had time to see the first comment this poem, but in addition let me add this. Haiku has long been moving away from nature into the nature of man and then on into everday man affairs. Some of my haiku reflects this new trend. Although nature was all that used to be written about that was never a rule of the form. That was all the master wrote and the people did likewise.

Charles Henderson October 30, 2011 at 10:40 PM Andy the difference between haiku and senryu is not what is written about. It is the form. Senryu is written in three lines but unlike haiku, it only make one statement. Haiku makes two, and one is a comparison of the other at a little bit later point in time. Senryu, you just see it ane write it. One statement. Thats it. Senryu is also comical, light hearted much like the limerick, where haiku is serious about being true. Even a comical scene will still maintain the haiku look.

Gwendolen Song October 30, 2011 at 5:30 PM How long did it take you to write this?.....seriously? Wow,,,,glowing like a hot Jackolantern! Amazing and educational...just -like-u! Gwendolen

Poet Destroyer A October 30, 2011 at 4:54 PM your funny Andrea..today is the first day of this month I get to be on the soup.. is the first time I get to be on the soup without any interruptions ... Lol.. I got 3 solid hours... Cool...I have logged on, to check my comments and post a poem or 2..but never comment away like today. I've been so mad cause work.. and others got in the way again.. anyways.. good luck in this contest..lol. itou inspired me to enter it with my obsession of killing.. thank u..p.d Poet Destroyer A October 30, 2011 at 4:57 PM Now I'm home.. making comments from my phone..

Carol Sunshine Brown October 30, 2011 at 2:54 PM Thank you for supporting the contest Andrea. Love, Carol

Kash Poet October 30, 2011 at 10:16 AM Wow!A top charter here Andrea.Best wishes.

Tony Lane October 30, 2011 at 9:07 AM Sounds like a holiday keeper to me. Tony

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