My Six Uncles

My Uncle Billy

likes to eat chili.

My Uncle Drake

loves chocolate cake.

My Uncle Freddy

stuffs on spaghetti.

My Uncle Newt

eats grapefruit.

My Uncle Finn

is way too thin.

All he eats

is a vitamin.

My Uncle Matt

is way too fat.

He eats everything,

some of this 

and lots of that.

And my Aunt Dot

washes up the pot.

     It is fun rhyming foods with names.  You can do this with almost any list, rhyming names with the things on your list.  Do you want to give this a try?

I'm already thinking about a list of things I do in a day.

In the morning,
My Uncle Drake
gets up late.   (Oops, that's a slip rhyme or near rhyme--I'm going to have to work a little harder to find an exact rhyme.  Ah, My Aunt Kate!)

My Aunt Flower
takes a shower.

My Uncle Hawk,
takes a walk.

     OK, you try it.  Have fun.  Please share your ideas in the comments below.

I Love to Eat

Thanksgiving is my favorite time of year.

My family gathers for good cheer.

I eat the turkey and the pies

the stuffing, the yams,

and the vegetable surprise.

Like the potatoes

and stewed tomatoes.

Love the jellies

and crushed cranberries.

Fruit salad and jello molds,

cornbread and hot dinner rolls.

I eat and eat, more than enough--

the turkey isn't the only one

 stuffed.

     Every year my husband makes our turkey dinner from the recipes in Bon Appetite magazine.  Over the years, I've had some amazing meals.  This year he is making a cauliflower dish that calls for pomegranate seeds and mint in it.  I'm waiting to see that one, I think it will look like a Christmas package with snow white cauliflower and the red and green little bits.  So today's poem is a  list poem of all the foods I eat for Thanksgiving dinner.  Perhaps you'd like to write your own list poem of all the people that are going to sit at the table with you for turkey day dinner.  Have fun shaping your poem.