When The Frost Is On The Punkin Comments

punkin=pumpkin

I've heard the author's name and the Title's phrase long before now. : ) bri It almost prompts me to write When the Ice Cream's on the Cake.

James Whitcomb Riley (1849 - 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the 'Hoosier Poet' and 'Children's Poet'

What a memory- love this!

Love love love the old masters! My mother read so many of them to me when I was a child. They bring warmth to my heart and joy to my soul.

Lovely lovely! It’s as if I am right there! Very enjoyable! ! ! One to read to the kids!

Brilliant in pastoral perception and description, embodies the contentment of another time, when physical labour and hard work, blessed the skilled tireless hands which reaped the blessing of the bounty of land; well used and cared for, in a dependence and connection of understanding nature with gratitude and love. There was a special taste in eating home grown produce produced in full ripeness and a peace and harmony attained in the completion of work well done.

Dialect poems attempt to capture the uniqueness of American English: sometimes they do. See also Paul Laurence Dunbar. Somehow they appeal to us, even when we don't know why - though critics and scholars reject them, even satirize them. My favorite still is Langston Hughes Mother to Son. Just a hint of dialect, but just right.

A lovely tribute to Autumn preparation for spring

I like this guy's 'orspitality

Awesome! Truly! Reminds me of those days way back when we'd go apple picking, get apple cider and cinnamon apple donuts, occasionally glazed...warm gleaming peaceful days...

Superb poem. I love it.

A heady kind of effect as you can feel and see and taste the country air and sights. There is the energy of activity and a warm and healthy presence of th e poet. The rhyme scheme is perfect and the country images vivid.

Winter ends all the charms of spring, summer and autumn! The poems says all with the line 'When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock! ' in a beautifully repetitive way!

Wow! What an autumn tribute! It's almost fall, and I will look for every one of these things happening around me as they come. Talk about down to earth, traditional poetry... The rhythm and rhyme really got me into the poem, which led me to begin visualizing a perfect, crisp, red and yellow autumn.

There is a phrase in Amish country, 'Plain and Fancy' This poem is it. Plain for the dialectic phrasing of the words and Fancy for the beautiful images they produce. How many people have heard the phrase 'When the frost is on the punkin.' and did not know it came from one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. This poem is part of our heritage.

Terrific stuff! You will not find a better line in English nature poetry than: 'The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn, /And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn...' I looked up 'tossel' and indeed there is a red tinge to a tossel.

work of art.... a masterpiece.... hope to make a beatiful poem like yours... i admire your work...

I like it, but i dont know why its in the top muckity muck. Popularity maybe. Its good writing, but ive seen better on this site recently.

There is nothing like a farmer's life and working with nature.