A PUMPKIN'S TALE: The Life Cycle of a Vegetable

	Starting as a seed in a vermilion galaxy
	i became a green sheath in a vegetable patch.

	As my tissues swelled with moisture
	and hairy tendrils emerged
	another part of me stretched upwards
	sepals embracing the Sun.

	Intoxicated with chlorophyll
	around my body a leafy necklace hung.

	It was effortless to blossom
	and soon a host of insects sucked,
	sniffed, poked, & nibbled my flesh.

	After my buds fell prostrate and belly swelled
	i became fallow.

	Following a frigid winter,
	next spring the ground around me awakened
	and as vegetable sprouts lifted their heads
	i – resurrected from clods of dirt – gained new life
	and found rebirth.


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from Celebrations ah Song: Rejoicing Through Art, Poetry & Narratives with T Newfields
SUMMARY: A lyric poem about the seasons and the life of pumpkins.
KEYWORDS: lyric poetry, plant elegy, seasonal changes, celebration of cucurbita 

Author: T Shizuoka [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1994 in Shizuoka, Japan ✶ Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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ESPAÑOL:  http://www.tnewfields.info/es/calabaza.htm
NIHONGO:  http://www.tnewfields.info/jp/kabocha.htm
ZHŌNGWÉN: http://www.tnewfields.info/zh/nangua.htm