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Monday, August 8, 2022

Gifted


I go to church, it’s what I love,

I do believe in God above,

And all the folks who attend with me

Are people that I like to see.

 

They’re honest, faithful, loving, too,

Will gladly help with things to do,

I mentioned ‘honest’, did I not?

Their honesty, I love a lot…

 

So it will come as no surprise,

It is a fact that opens eyes,

That seldom do these people lock

Their car doors when to church they walk.

 

It’s not uncommon when we meet,

To traipse along that sunny street,

And try a car door, here and there,

And find admittance to their lair.

 

But there’s one time (you will be shocked),

When no one leaves their cars unlocked,

It happens late in summertime,

Or early autumn. (So sublime!)

 

But it’s not theft they worry ‘bout,

Nope. That thought really has no clout,

What’s taken out is not the sin,

It’s what someone is putting in!

 

Yep. If unlocked you leave your car,

You may have to travel far,

With your backseat filled with a catch

Of zucchini from your neighbour’s patch!

 

So if you go to church, you must,

Lock your car doors as we discussed,

Cause you will end up just like me…

Your back seat filled with zucchini!


Cause Mondays do get knocked a lot,
With poetry, we all besought
To try to make the week begin
With gentle thoughts,
Perhaps a grin?
So KarenCharlotteMimi, me
Have crafted poems for you to see.
And now you’ve read what we have wrought…
Did we help?
Or did we not?


Next week, we'll have hunger pangs,
And Pie of lemon--with meringue

Thinking of joining us for Poetry Monday?
We'd love to welcome you!
Topics for the next few weeks (with a huge thank-you to Mimi, who comes up with so many of them!)...

Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch (or car) Night (August 8) Today!

Lemon Meringue Pie Day (August 15)

Be an Angel Day (August 22)

Bats -or-  More Herbs, Less Salt (August 29)

Labour Day (September 5)

Chocolate Milk Shakes (September 12)

Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19)

Field Trips (September 26)


9 comments:

  1. The one thing I have successfully grown in my life is zucchini, so I can relate to this!

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  2. Brilliant and fun. And yes, there is always more than we need.

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  3. Your can lock your car doors, but there's always your front door, have zucchini, will travel!

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  4. Well, now, that would be great! If only...

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  5. I can't grow zucchini so I wouldn't mind having a few. A FEW. lol

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  6. I do welcome zucchini, but we have to lock doors where I live, and somehow, zucchini doesn't make it to my front porch. I may be strange, but I love zucchini.

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  7. Heeheehee!

    Our church is in the middle of an area where everyone locks doors all year long, which is sad to say. If all i'd get is a bit of zucchini, i'd leave my door unlocked.

    Of course, around here, the food bank will gladly take your excess produce and it will be consumed. Voraciously. That's another "sad to say" moment.

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