What’s it like to be an orange Pumpkin-head
Only black sockets for eyes instead.
And a cut-out smile full of seeds.
Queer ears made of rings and beads.
Inside, your brain is scooped out for pigs feed
Leaving a dark void that doesn’t bleed.
On top you’re a crinkled dome.
And your sore neck’s being speared home.
What’s it like to have a retina thread
As a throbbing nerve-end tread.
With your cell fibres smashed to a pulp
Knifing across your tender scalp.
Ebbing towards your aching neck
And crushing you like a broken shipwreck.
Then a wooden spike pierces your fragile brain
Where the horrid harpoon spreads your pain.
Written
by
My poem Smashed Pumpkin Brains, was published by, “Slasher Monster Magazine”, in October 2017, Thanks to all at SMM….
Image Credit: Jack-o-Lanterncarved by Ray Villafane
Oh, such Halloween fun! 🎃 👻
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If I remember, I think It won 2nd prize in the magazine for their Halloween competition, in 2017…..the only trouble was the poem, is a metaphorical piece about what happening to my brain at that time, i had extreme Occipital neuralgia……
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I don’t want to be a pumpkin. This was incredible Ivor! Congrats on its publication.
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Thank you dear Beth…… Yep I feel like that pumpkin, when i have a bad bout of occipital neuralgia..
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I think perhaps poor Mr. Pumpkin
Head is an American politician!? 🎃
The one with orange hair, who’s
name I should not mention 😱
Not till its safe to do so,
… well after Halloween 🦇
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That’s funny, I don’t think he was Pres’ when I wrote the poem??
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Your a poetic prophet
who didn’t know it 🤔
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No profit for a poet
Pumpkin head is on my neck
It was nearly seedless
Spears behind my eye
Like Halloween, I didn’t die
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That’s a trick, or a treat,
that in 12 months
you’ll need to repeat 😎
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Oh, I hope it’s annual
That would be quite anal
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? I best read the halloween manual🤔
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Love 🎃
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Ha! Love this! Reminds me of the Scarecrow’s song from The Wizard of Oz…”If I only had a brain!”
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Thank you,….. Yeah…. If I had a brain that wasn’t in pain……. 🤔
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