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[psvid] “Mistake” (Lorraine Marwood)

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Poem_Starter_VidHappy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party.

Today’s poem comes from Guinea Pig Town and Other Animal Poems?(Walker Books Australia and New Zealand, 2013), by?Lorraine Marwood. Lorraine is a new-to-me poet whose work I need to explore more!?I’m someone who’s made loads of mistakes, especially in the kitchen.?Watch the video to?learn what I?caught on fire recently. Aaannnnnyway, let’s just say I could relate to this poem:>)

Mistake

There’s a mistake on the front lawn
and the magpies creep up
peck, hop back, peck
look around, squawk
then shake their beaks.

Even they can tell
a rock-hard, well-burnt
experimental piece
of cooking when they inspeck it!

–by Lorraine Marwood, all rights reserved

And here is my Poem Starter Video:

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Comments

  1. I’ve curdled cheese sauce
    which showed its remorse
    and reduced itself down by half
    It tastes just the same
    but looks sad and lame
    if you look at it you might just barf.

    I love ‘mistake on the front lawn’ that’s so intriguing.

  2. I’ve curdled cheese sauce
    which showed its remorse
    and reduced itself down by half
    It tastes just the same
    but looks sad and lame
    if you look at it you might just barf.

    I love ‘mistake on the front lawn’ that’s so intriguing.

  3. You’re not going to start a cooking blog soon, I guess, Laura! I don’t think I’ve ever started a fire, but I have (in haste) left out ingredients before, like sugar in a cake. The layers could have been used for flying disks! Fun poem, especially imagining the magpies rejection!

    • No way, Jose. Uh oh, a cake without sugar–that does sound like a problem. Our bar for low is if our beagle won’t eat it. Then we know it’s beyond bad.

  4. You’re not going to start a cooking blog soon, I guess, Laura! I don’t think I’ve ever started a fire, but I have (in haste) left out ingredients before, like sugar in a cake. The layers could have been used for flying disks! Fun poem, especially imagining the magpies rejection!

    • No way, Jose. Uh oh, a cake without sugar–that does sound like a problem. Our bar for low is if our beagle won’t eat it. Then we know it’s beyond bad.

  5. JAKE’S LAVA CAKE
    Mommy tried my lava cake
    Then spit it out (for pity’s sake).
    She yelled, “What are you trying to do?
    I’ll no longer be able to chew!

    Here’s where you made your mistake
    That’s causing my body to shake
    When one creates a lava cake
    You don’t put in actual lava Jake!”

    (C) Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.

  6. JAKE’S LAVA CAKE
    Mommy tried my lava cake
    Then spit it out (for pity’s sake).
    She yelled, “What are you trying to do?
    I’ll no longer be able to chew!

    Here’s where you made your mistake
    That’s causing my body to shake
    When one creates a lava cake
    You don’t put in actual lava Jake!”

    (C) Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.

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