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| Littlest Pumpkin |
PEPPY WAS AMONG THOSE LEFT SITTING
IN A VERY LARGE PUMPKIN PATCH,
HE HAD SAT WATCHING AS SO MANY OTHER PUMPKINS
WERE BEING CARRIED IN A STRONG ARM LATCH.
A WEEK OR TWO HAD GONE BY
PEOPLE HAD BEEN COMING
BUT WENT RIGHT ON PAST
THEY HEADED TO THE BIG ONES
HE WAS TOO SMALL
PROBABLY WOULD BE LEFT TO GO NEAR THE LAST,
THERE WERE CHILDREN OF ALL AGES
THEY WERE WALKING ALL ABOUT
THEY HAD ARRIVED TO PICK JUST THE RIGHT ONE
THE SCHOOL BUS HAD LET THEM OUT,
THEY RAN FAST UP AND DOWN THE ROWS
LOOKING HERE AND THERE,
JUST COMPLETELY PASSED UP PEPPY
WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A STARE.
HE WAS A VERY LITTLE PUMPKIN
MIGHT NOT BE CHOSEN BY ANYONE TODAY
TIME WAS PASSING ON AND THE PUMPKINS WERE DISAPPEARING
LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GONNA BE HERE TO STAY,
LATE IN THE EVENING
TWO YOUNG GIRLS AND THEIR BROTHER
WERE WALKING SLOWLY
HAD PASSED PEPPY BY
THEY WERE HOLDING ONTO THEIR MOTHER'S HAND
DID NOT HAVE A PUMPKIN YET AND LET OUT A SIGH,
PEPPY WAS LYING NEAR THE PATH
THEY HAD PASSED HIM ONCE BEFORE
GUESS THEY HAD DECIDED NOT TO GET A PUMPKIN
AND WERE NOT GOING TO LOOK ANYMORE,
THEN SUDDENLY THE LEAST LITTLE GIRL SQUEALED
SHE HAD SPIED THE LITTLE PUMPKIN AT LAST
THIS ONE IS BEAUTIFUL
JUST HER SIZE
SHE RAN OVER TO PEPPY GOING REALLY FAST,
THERE WERE LOTS BIGGER AND BETTER SHAPED PUMPKINS
SITTING IN THE PATCH
PEPPY SEEN THEM ALL AROUND
BUT JUST THEN THE CHILDREN REACHED HIM
AND PICKED PEPPY UP OFF THE GROUND,
HE LOOKED AROUND AT THE REMAINING PUMPKINS
THEY SEEMED TO BE A JOLLY CROWD
IT PLEASED THE LITTLE PUMPKIN AS HE WAS CARRIED
OUT OF THE PATCH
HE FELT SO VERY PROUD,
THE OLDEST GIRL HAD ALSO FOUND HER PERFECT ONE
HE WASN'T VERY BIG
BUT NICE AND TALL
SHE SEEMED TO BE VERY HAPPY WITH HER FIND
CONSIDERED HERS THE VERY BEST ONE OF ALL.
THE LITTLE GIRL HUGGED HI
M DIRT AND ALL
AS THE LITTLE BOY LOOKED FOR ONE PUMPKIN MORE,
THEY WOULD SIT THEIR THREE PUMPKINS ON THE PORCH
QUITE NEAR THE FRONT DOOR,
THE CHILDREN WERE DELIGHTED WITH THEIR PUMPKINS
THEY SAT THEM IN THE SEAT ON THEIR RIDE HOME
TOOK THEM INTO THE HOUSE CAUSE IT WAS LATE
DID NOT WANT THEM LEFT TO BE ON THE PORCH ALONE,
IT WASN'T LONG UNTIL HALLOWEEN DREW NEAR
THEY WERE BUSY CARVING A SCARY FACE
SOME JAGGED TEETH
A SQUARE NOSE
TWO POINTED EYES
AN ORANGE CANDLE INSIDE THEY DID PLACE,
SITTING ON THE FRONT PORCH STEP
PEPPY LIT UP HALLOWEEN NIGHT
HE WAS VERY HAPPY
NOT ONE BIT SCARED
AS HE GLOWED AN EERIE ORANGE LIGHT,
SO ALL THREE LITTLE PUMPKINS DID FIND A HOME
AS JACK-o-LANTERNS THEY WERE A FRIGHT
NO LONGER LEFT ALONE IN THE PUMPKIN PATCH
THEIR EYES WERE TWINKLING VERY BRIGHT....!!!
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