Theme in Yellow
I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o'-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.
Copyright Credit: Carl Sandburg, "Theme in Yellow" from Chicago Poems (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916). Public domain.
Source: Chicago Poems (Henry Holt and Company, 1916)