County Fair Second Place Preserves

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Linking with wonderful Toni's Wednesday Muse # 13 ~Berries

I am a jar of crazy eyed musings

And you can set me on any shelf and my peripheral vision will not spoil

A mix of wise pondering and scattered ideas

That jell perfectly in a soft berry muse

Spread me on a blank page

Take small bites

Some may be sticky

But sweetness will roll off your tongue

In between the bites

May be a little tart

please take all it in slowly

Life is sweet poetry

And so is breakfast and berries

If you look at it

With a poet’s heart.

©Carrie Van Horn 2019

Note: 

I do not have any wonderful memories of picking berries with my parents, but the lady that watched me after my mother passed away was a farm lady named Odessa and I would go out in the field with her many times picking vegetables and such.  Every year she would go to the County Fair with her latest preserves, and she would let me help her make some so that I could have my own jar to put in the contest.  I think I won second place one time.  My memories of her and the simple life they lived, is etched on my heart, and I am certain that it is in the simplicity of growing and sustaining life that poetry is truly born.