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Garden Fresh

Sally

Summer foods
Summer eats
Fresh wholesome
Tasty treats

Green beans – yum!
Dangling down
Pick and eat
Best all ’round

Cucumber
Love to munch
Garden yield
Fresh raw [crunch]

Yellow squash
Sliced, sauteed
Seasoned well
Makes the grade

Corn on cob
Freshly picked
Butter, salt
So perfect

Summer foods
Summer eats
Fresh wholesome
Tasty treats

This poem is a Cethramtu Rannaigechta Moire.  I can’t pronounce it, but I can tell you that it’s an Irish poetic form that requires 3 syllable lines in quatrains. The second and fourth lines rhyme.

The W3 prompt this week is to write a food-related poem in any form. Okay, I thought, I’ll just write down everything I eat for the day and make a poem about it. Here was my first verse:

Farmstand egg
Whole wheat toast
Smoked Gouda
It’s the most

But I realized that almost everything else I ate was garden-related, so I nixed my egg sandwich and just put verses in that involved fresh produce.

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18 thoughts on “Garden Fresh”

  4. Sally this is a great poem! I love the form and I think it very clever!! I have a funny story about my husband and his green bean harvest – I told him that raw green beans could cause ‘intestinal distress’ but he didn’t listen… he doesn’t eat them raw any more!!

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  6. I grew up with a father that loved a huge garden! I loved walking through picking and eating. I guess he never used pesticides because I was always allowed to eat right out of the garden. We used to also load up our wagon and walk up and down the street selling vegetables. Now, as an adult and knowing how much work a garden is, I wonder how my parents really felt about us selling their vegetables! Here in FL it is too hot to grow vegetable during normal summer months.

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      2. Soup weather is a close rival for me. There’s nothing like a bowl of homemade soup on a snowy day. But last night’s dinner was chef’s salad with garden lettuce, garden tomato, garden cucumbers etc. Deeelicious!

      3. I totally agree, Sally. Summers are for refreshing salads and winters for comforting soups.
        Hehe! Tonight’s dinner is going to be a replica of yours!🙂

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