Happy Monday!

Mondays can always use a little more happy, so I've decided that Monday postings will be happy, cheery posts!  Sometimes I'll post my own happy poem, sometimes someone else's work, and who knows what else?  I've got to keep you on your toes, so expect the unexpected.  That being said.... I'm totally starting with what you'd expect: my own poem!  (Don't judge me.)

It's not snowy outside my window right now, but it sure is frosty, and I hate the cold.  I miss summer. Thinking about summer makes me very, very happy, and thinking about pleasant childhood summers makes me even happier.  Plus, it's a poem about food.  Who doesn't love that??

"Strawberry Summer"

Strawberries taste like

Childhood summers:

Grown in a small garden

Next to a little shed

Picked by still growing hands

Washed in a tiny kitchen

And devoured

Purely.

Not chocolate covered

Whipped cream topped

Or sugar coated

The only garnish

Was the juice

Dribbling down

A smiling chin

And wiped

Across cherub cheeks