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 peasy, puddle, vintage turquoise, moon walk, hearthstone, sun rays, and tangerine dream.
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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.
Yes, I read his to get a better understanding of the “theme”.
An eggcellent and egsquisite verse!
Your first couplet made me laugh out loud. Also, now I don’t feel so bad for including just one horrible, egg-related pun in my post. You went all-out! XD
Since Shel Silverstein’s poem was the theme, I thought that is what was eggspected of us.