A child of vigilance
and hatred,
at least toward spinach,
she searched the fridge’s
sixteen plastic containers
for last night’s leftovers.
Multitudinous possible punishments
considered, deemed of no account,
the garbage disposal
sang the Alleluia Chorus.
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@gavroche challenged me to write a poem using three particular words. See if you can guess which ones. My opinion of the poem has improved a bit since others said they like it. Thanks.
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Ha, I’m sure Heidi is not the first child who chose the garbage disposal. I have one here who can’t stand bell peppers & tomatoes and would gladly hear a chorus (of any kind) from the garbage disposal. Really enjoy your poetry, and I feel like you do with some of my dVerse pieces too. You write great stuff and this piece made me smile.
she hasn’t heard about popej, the seaman – otherwise she would eat the spinach…smiles..fun piece matt
I actually liked this quite a bit. My guess on the 3 words: spinach, multitudinous, and Alleluia. I certainly hope you are going to reveal the answer eventually.
Peace, Linda
Unless it is intricately woven among layers of lasagna cheese, spinach should hit that disposal…I’d happily step up to sing in that choir! Fun write, blazing with your unique voice. You be WAY too hard on your words, Poet!
I guessed the same words Linda did!
Smilin, Matt. Vigilance, multitudinous, spinach is my guess.
I will give the answer as to which words in about 18 hours. Thanks for the kind responses thus far!
This is really really fun- don’t know why you don’t like it! Just sums up kids to a tee. Line at the end about the garbage disposal made me chuckle.
A self-conscious terror sets hold sometimes immediately after writing a poem.
of no the???
i’m going for the long shots
you took up the guantlet and slapped some face
well I enjoyed this read… now, for those three words… hmmm, my guess: Multitudinous, Alleluia, hatred.
haha…spinach is not so bad…it was the lima beans that did me in…
did i see on twitter today that someone was steeling your owrds to put with pictures?
I was a momentary crack addict or something. For a second I forgot it was someone else’s tweet I’d RT’d and thought it was mine. That’s when you REALLY like someone’s writing!
Multitudinous, Spinach, and Alleluia. Great write whatever the words are. Spinach is an acquired taste. (As a kid who hated veggies) LOl
I’m thinkin’ plastic and not Alleluia – it’s like you to add your own Alleluia’s! Multitudinous and disposal perhaps (just to be a bit different). Well these challenges are always fun. That’s how I arrived at my crab poem and in time came to like it. This is a different sound from you, but your voice nonetheless.
Enjoyed it, friend.
I guess she doesn’t care about being strong like Popeye either.
Found this intriguing, and though not sure of the words, I would guess “spinach, multitudinous and garbage disposal.” I thought this was cleverly written, you did well!
I agree with Ginny – are we right?
I enjoyed the humour in this poem
i love the image of the child looking through the frige. leftovers….hmmmm there’s a reason they are left over
Dang you are modest, this hardly sucks. Fun write. I love the image of “sixteen plastic containers” shoved in there.
Lots of fun to read and to re-read. Thanks
hmm. my guess: spinach, multitudinous, disposal. i thought this was both clever & cute.
What fun this is, Matt! My guesses are spinach, garbage, and multidinous. You gonna tell us?
Wish you’d stop the self-denigration…you’re one of the best around. This is a P.S. Already commented on the poem. YOU DO NOT SUCK….get it?
it can be hidden in many things
The words were Vigilance, Spinach and Plastic
wonderful! Glad I saw this after the big reveal
very creative work for those prompts ~ Rose