Tabatha is gathering a stew of Mac & Cheese poems today for Poetry Friday.
Tabatha sent out a call for a poetic celebration of Mac&Cheese for today, National Mac&Cheese Day. I stopped making Mac&Cheese long ago when my girls began to understand and worry about nutrition. Mac&Cheese is packaged processed food, Mom. Don’t you know it contains chemicals?
Now my cooking skills are not of the caliber to make Mac&Cheese from scratch. My son-in-law made it for Thanksgiving a few years ago. It was delicious, but he made it in vats, so we had to give some away. I have to admit it was better than anything ever made from a box.
For my Mac&Cheese poem, I decided to use a form. Form helps me when I don’t know what to write. I chose the Zeno form created by J. Patrick Lewis that follows a syllable count of 8, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1. I think it’s quite corny, but if anything calls for a side of corn, it’s Mac&Cheese.
Tabatha also coordinates the Summer Poetry Swap. This week I received a most precious set of salt & pepper shakers for my bayou home from Irene Latham. She also sent a wonderful Nikki Grimes’ style word exploration poem in honor of my recent work-in-progress, Bayou Song. Thanks, Irene for brightening up a rainy summer day on the bayou.
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