Slice of Life Challenge: For the month of March, I'm participating in a daily writing challenge, blogging, and posting, and reading other teachers' blogs. This challenge was started by two writing teachers, and can be found at their blog each day: www.twowritingteachers.wordpress.com. Feel free to join me! It's a great way to keep story threading throughout your brain each day.
Cupcakes
frosted, sprinkled
layered in chocolate,
vanilla and strawberry
too;
Paper-wrapped on the outside
in pinks and greens
and blues
with polka-dots, hearts
and cute little teddybears
too.
These sweet, delectable
puffs of cake
whose calorie count
adds up
to nine hundred and
eighty two--
cross my desk
and wait...
for the weakened.
If--
in my teaching years,
I gave way to
temptation?
My waist-size
would measure
a hundred
and
sixty two!
Cupcakes!
(In the style/but hardly the talent, of my beloved Valerie Worth: All the Small Poems, and Fourteen More; dedicated to the memory of a teaching pal from years ago, Dave Carrington, "the Duke," who ate many a cupcake for me!)
