iced melon a granddaughter’s grin overflows her face
—Marietta McGregor
Issue 19.2 | 28 November 2019
How sweet!
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—MARIETTA MCGREGOR
Being lucky living in Queensland, Australia, we had plenty of various types of melons roadside and big barn stores offering them very cheaply.
I can imagine the fun for a child still seeing and reacting to the explosive texture of a melon! :-)
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smell of watermelon… the high sun factor face block just purchased
Alan Summers Publication credit: paper wasp (Australia, no known date) Collection: "sundog, an australian year" (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998)
Nice…
overflows to her grandparent to a poem to a world
You have a wonderful way with words, Marietta.
Thank you to the editors, and also to the poets who responded here. Thanks all for the kind words.
Such an apt image and description of a granddaughter's grin!
Oh, I can see it and smile myself at your granddaguther’s pleasure. Thank you, Marietta.
I like this weblog so much, saved to favorites.
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November 28th, 2019 at 8:17 am
How sweet!
November 28th, 2019 at 8:24 am
.
iced melon
a granddaughter’s grin
overflows her face
—MARIETTA MCGREGOR
Being lucky living in Queensland, Australia, we had plenty of various types of melons roadside and big barn stores offering them very cheaply.
I can imagine the fun for a child still seeing and reacting to the explosive texture of a melon! :-)
*
smell of watermelon…
the high sun factor face block
just purchased
Alan Summers
Publication credit: paper wasp (Australia, no known date)
Collection: "sundog, an australian year" (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998)
November 28th, 2019 at 10:00 am
Nice…
overflows to
her grandparent
to a poem
to a world
November 28th, 2019 at 2:42 pm
You have a wonderful way with words, Marietta.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:02 pm
Thank you to the editors, and also to the poets who responded here. Thanks all for the kind words.
November 28th, 2019 at 7:35 pm
Such an apt image and description of a granddaughter's grin!
November 28th, 2019 at 7:52 pm
Oh, I can see it and smile myself at your granddaguther’s pleasure.
Thank you, Marietta.
November 29th, 2019 at 9:25 pm
I like this weblog so much, saved to favorites.