Cakes & Cookies #1 : Colorful Candles

16" x 12" x 1.5"

Acrylic on Canvas

Been Spending Our Days – Down at the Park

All Summer Long – And Just for a Lark

Wading Pool, Ring Toss, and Relay Races

All For the Kids – With Smiles on Their Faces

 

Announcement is Made – A Baking Contest

Who Better than Me – Could Out Do the Rest

Though I’m Just Seven – How Hard Can it be

Baking Some Cookies – Like Climbing a Tree

 

Too Anxious to Wait – As I Rise the Next Morn

I Take Out Mom’s Book – And Start to Perform

No-Bake Cookies – Start Taking Shape

All Stacking Up – Like a Chocolate Landscape

 

2 Cups of Quick Oats – Next Word Looks Like Salt

I Can’t Read Well – It isn’t My Fault

I Read the Word Wrong – It’s Not What I Thought

Everything’s Okay – Until I Got Caught

 

When My Mom Awakes – She Then Tastes My Treat

She Nearly Throws Up – All Over Her Feet

The Word is Sugar – Two Cups to Make Sweet

You Used Table Salt – Now No One Will Eat

 

My Mom Quickly Makes – A New Batch for Me

To Take to the Park – For My Victory

She Thinks She Has Done – What’s Best for Me

I Hurry to the Park – And Joyfully

 

The Program Director – Has Tasted Them All

Assigns a Winner – And Makes the Right Call

Now Should I Tell Them – The Cookies Aren’t Mine?

Well, What Would You Do – With Pride on the Line?