Hey, thanks Ter!
Well, to be truthful, I am giving a novel a try, but it's slow
going...tentative title: The Tink Wig Witches. It's an abitious project
and I don't really know if I'm up to it...
CW, Mary :O)
--- tlrelf <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's great to have a few hours to write, isn't it?! I'm hoping for some
> more writing time myself this weekend...
> So, once again, you've got a great story going in this poem...Your
> characters come alive. I can't help wondering if you don't also write
> short
> fiction and you're holding out on us? hehe
>
> Terrie
> >
> > Carrots
> >
> >
> > Certainly we were wanting. There was a lunch-lady who
> > could tell how hungry you were by your eyes
> > and the way you couldn't ask for more but she gave
> >
> > you extra rice without the slightest hesitation. At home
> > our closet of a kitchen never knew the smell of freshly
> > peeled oranges or heard the snap of a pea pod. We only read
> >
> > about peaches and pears in math books; so many and so many
> > make so many. But apples came from the ground
> > each autumn in Old Vandyke's orchard. He didn't
> >
> > begrudge the deer and us any "dropsy's." Certainly we ate
> > till we were sick. The first time we were given a fresh vegetable
> > was at a distant relative's house. My father didn't want to go.
> >
> > We sat at a table covered with white cloth. There were no pots
> > set out, but bowls of food. There were napkins. I was afraid
> > to take my hands from my lap. Aunt Ora passed a bowl to me.
> >
> > Perfectly stacked orange sticks, glazed in real butter,
> > speckled with brown bits of exotic nutmeg. They shone in the light
> > of the lamps. And Aunt Ora said, Let me help you. Do you like
> >
> > carrots? Certainly I liked carrots. She spooned the glistening
> > vegetable onto my plate. Yes, of course there was more food
> > than that, but to this day all I remember is that here
> >
> > was something not from a can. Neither mushy nor tasteless.
> > Bright orange fingerlings grown in the freshness of the earth.
> > The books were right, after all.
> >
> > ~*~
> >
> > Yes, I admit it...I'm out of practice...lol
> >
> > Cheerwell, Mary :O)
> >
> >
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> > Good Cheer & Be Well,
> > Maryann Hazen-Stearns
> > "Under The Limbo Stick"
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