The Tale of My Pink Bellbottoms and Strawberries -- Challenge Poem for National Poetry Month
She made our clothes to be up to date and stylish.
But the pink bellbottoms she made me, made me the roast,
of all of my friends as too cutesy and childish.
So what happens to pants too cutesy for words,
I wore them when working in the strawberry fields.
Pink doesn't last long in mud up to knees,
or squashing down berries out of my yield.
True revenge on my mother I accomplished this way,
but I forgot one thing and that was her say,
"You aren't ruining another pair of pants,
you'll wear them to the fields as long as they last".
Ouch, nothing is worse than too cutesy for words,
except wearing pants cutesy and stained for the worse
but even with stains the pants never bored
no pants at all would be worse than the worst of the worse.
This poem is a quatrain poem, one with four lines and rhymed, all though I switch the rhyme order of the third stanza to signal a change. Written for April's National Poetry Month.
Published by Sheri Fresonke Harper
Sheri works as a freelance writer, novelist and poet. She worked in the aviation industry at the Port of Seattle and Boeing Company for 20 years as a systems analyst/architect where she edited and wrote over... View profile
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13 Comments
Post a Commentloved this!
Very good work, Sheri. Now, I want to eat strawberries.
so cute!
how cute but I loved my bell bottoms they were the rage
Great job! :-)
Original for sure!
Great poem
Very cutesy
I love it! =)
I remember "dorky" clothes my mother made us wear. Only thing was, we didn't KNOW they were dorky back then because EVERYBODY wore those stretch pants- striped top things from Sears! :)