Shel Silverstein’s “Eggs Rated” is the theme: Paint Chip Poetry Challenge #49

What’s for Breakfast?

Michael makes the moon walk look easy peasy
When I try to do it, it looks eggstremely sleazy

The puddle goes on where the sidewalk ends
Do I have to eggsplain this all over again

There are apples and pears in my tangerine dream
And the nectarines make this fruit salad eggstreme

The vintage turquoise necklace may seem a bit eggcentric
It’s an eggcellent eggsample of an item that’s concentric

As the day wears on the sun rays grow eggsponentially longer
And the eggsperimental garden becomes that much stronger

Back inside the cabin there’s an eggsquisite roaring fire
It will keep the hearthstone warm before it eggspires

What’s for breakfast you eggsclaim in a manner quite pictorial
But I’ve used up all my eggs and now there’s only cereal

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Linked to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Poetry Challenge Prompt #49. The theme poem title is “Eggs Rated” by Shel Silverstein. The paint chip words and phrases you have to work with are easy peasypuddlevintage turquoisemoon walkhearthstonesun rays, and tangerine dream

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5 thoughts on “What’s for Breakfast?”

  1. Ha! That’s hilarious and awesome and worthy of five-and-a-half out of five eggs for sure.

    I’m curious, did you read Silverstein’s poem before you wrote yours? I almost posted a picture of the whole poem, but was concerned about copyright infringement. I don’t want him on my bad side, you know.

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