Posted in April 2017, Free Verse, NaPoWriMo 2017, Scripture

Gardener’s Recipe

Gardener
Strengthen those hands

In the soil of the earth

Let them not hang down

To touch feeble knees

But let them cultivate 

Tender shoots of Life

To growth and maturity 

And cause the knees to bend

In prayer that the the feet may

Walk on paths so straight 

Where the lame won’t fall

But be healed and seek

Peace with all 

Free Verse

Based on Hebrews 12:12-14

Posted in December 2014, Shadorma

Sweet Dreams

Shadorma poem about Sugar Plums
Original Poetry by Leona J. Atkinson ©2014
(graphics from clker.com)

This poem was inspired by a lady I met at work who told me she was buying a special decorative box to place the homemade Sugar Plums in that she makes each Christmas for her husband.  Her description of them sounded so absolutely wonderful that I said I would love to know how to make them too!  She offered to email me the recipe!  So my grand-daughter and I shall try making them for Christmas whenever her recipe arrives, but in the meantime I created this poem and am posting some information I found online about Sugar Plums,
what they are, and how to make them.
I hope you enjoy!

Cocoa Heaven–What Are Sugar Plums?
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“The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;”…
Twas the Night Before Christmas poem
by Clement Clarke Moore or Henry Livingston