I really have enjoyed writing the poems ... & never thought I could write them "on demand" or so many!  But here we are entering into the final week (after the three that I'm putting up tonight. I must say that I am looking forward to writing fewer blogs, so that I can spend more time visiting you my friends & commenting on your poems, & your photos, and other writings. Some of you "do it all," ... I don't know how you do it!!  

Prompt #21: Tomatoes (Four couplets, rhyme scheme: AB/AB/AB/DD)

 Tomatoes for sale,

I heard the boy say: 

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“May serve it with kale,

. . . Atop a fillet,

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Beside a roast quail,

Make sauce for souffle...”

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Stop! I must buy these now –

I am hungry for chow!!

© cjj – 2014

 Prompt #22: Hard Boiled Eggs

 (Three couplets, rhyme scheme: AA/AA/BB)

            "My Favorite Ways to Fix Eggs"

Even though I like my eggs fixed fried and scrambled too,

And omelets, soufflés, Benedict, poached, and “peek-a-boo,”

Thankfully hard boil-ed eggs can be a great choice, too,

Since Val picked “hard boiled eggs” as a theme for me and you!

SO . . . Egg salad, ‘tater salad, deviled eggs, and more –

Easter eggs brought by the “Bunny” through the kitchen door!

© cjj – 2014

Prompt #23: “I do not wish to contend.”

Hmm…interesting concept:

“I do not wish to contend.”

I had polio when three.

 And how could I fail to be

      ?   ?   ?   ?   ?   ?

A fighter, yes – but also

On God and folks to depend?

God’s blessed this gal so freely,

With grace and courage daily.

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How could I then ever state:

“This is it, I will not fend!”

© cjj – 2014