By Janet Fagal
Central New York Branch
Our garden’s growing dinosaur food!
The vines are invading our yard!
I use one to “call” my grandma.
She says she knows just what they are!
She says we must bake zucchini bread
from her secret recipe every dinosaur dreads!
Add flour, sugar, chocolate chips
shredded zucchini and marshmallow bits.
Next add sweet butter, eggs and nuts,
Yummy raisins, and some coconut!
Stir it, bake it, let it rest.
Taste it, slice it, mmmm it’s the best.
Then make a sign for pink lemonade,
to serve with the bread that we just made!
The price you ask? The food is FREE!
Just take home zucchini, at least two or three!
And should those dinosaurs come to call,
they’ll head on home with no zucchinis at all!
Charming, Janet!
Thank you, Karen. This has a different vibe from my regulars and very glad it could be shared here! It was based on a photo of a young girl holding a large zucchini to her head as of it were a phone. I got the idea and just played with it!
I love this! I can smell it baking!
Oh, Andrea, thank you! I have never made this recipe and so I will try to see what I might come up with and then pray it will taste so delicious I can share it. Me? I love zucchini in many forms and my sister’s zucchini bread recipe is so yummy! Thanks for commenting!
So good to hear a whimsical, light-hearted voice–lifts our mood and lessens our troubles.
Claire Massey
NLAPW Poetry Editor
Thank you, Claire. I had fun with this and am so glad you selected to share it here. For those who grow zucchini in their home gardens I bet this hits home!!
Janet
We felt so lucky when Janet Clare Fagal came to our school and read her poem to the students!
It was a delight to be at CTL again. I know I was surrounded by poets and poetry aficionados. Your students are immersed in reading and writing and learning so much with poetry, I felt among good friends once again. Thank you, Katy.
A fun poem – makes me smile.
Thank you, Sandra. It was one I wrote for possible inclusion in an anthology for kids and I enjoyed the humorous aspect of it. Glad you did, too. Now on to try to figure out if a zucchini bread with those ingredients exists or could be made and if so, would it be tasty? Maybe with cream cheese.
Janet