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Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

0 posted 2001-04-03 10:13 PM

( To Eat with Trilliums fresh, rich cream)

It was a sunny summer day,
When Mama said, "All toys away;
Time to go and search the prairie
For that elusive wild strawberry.

My big brothers found some cans.
And I used one of Mother's pans.
Little sister fetched her pail.
The Easter one, that had a bail.

Those small berries were hard to find,
But it was fun, we didn't mind.
We all were thinking of that pie,
Mama would bake us by and by.

When Charlie asked small sister Glad,
The number of berries she now had,
She answered quickly "One or nine",
And smiled as if that was just fine.

Redwinged blackbirds were mad as hops;
At our raiding of their berry crops.
They swooped at us as if to say,
"Greedy intruders, go away."

Little shade in the summer meadow
And I was tired, quite ready to go.
When a brother said "Well that's enough.
Wild berry picking's mighty tough."

We had full pails,'cept sister Glad.
Who'd greedily eaten all she had.
We were so ready for that pie,
And no one hungrier than I.

I told our mother, "I'ts not fair,
For my sister to have any share."
She shushed at me and said, "It's fine."
And cut Glady's piece as big as mine.

By: Joyce 04/03/2001
I told

PhaerieChild
Senior Member

since 1999-08-30

Posts 1787
Aloha, Oregon

1 posted 2001-04-03 10:36 PM

I think I must have been Glad. I could never come back with any either LOL. Great poem. Reminded me a lot of my early childhood.

How can you save me?
When the dark comes right in and takes me,
from my front walk and into bed,
where it kisses my face and eats my head. Shivaree

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

2 posted 2001-04-03 11:02 PM

After reading this, I want strawberry shortcake!

pegasus111
Member Elite

since 2000-07-27

Posts 2219
ocala, fl, usa

3 posted 2001-04-03 11:47 PM

lovely and nostalgic as usual..great piece

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

4 posted 2001-04-04 01:05 AM

Dear Joyce: This is charming! I too used to go pick wild strawberries, but since I was raised in northern Canada, we picked in the muskegs. I've never tasted berries like those anywhere else. I loved this!

Betty Lou Hebert

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

5 posted 2001-04-04 05:46 AM

Thanks for sharing a family moment. I never had the opportunity to pick 'em.
Melton

Yu Lan
Senior Member

since 2000-04-13

Posts 1462
New Zealand

6 posted 2001-04-04 05:53 AM

Mmm...

Yumm.. straaawberries... you make this sound so good, Joyce. ^_^

Lynne

"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened." Lao-tsu

kcsgrandma
Senior Member

since 2000-09-24

Posts 1522
Presque Isle, ME

7 posted 2001-04-05 12:22 PM

Wild strawberries are always special. We used to enjoy them mightily as kids, even though we had a large patch of cultivated ones in our garden (also very good). Thanks for sweet memories!

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn