Fella Show

"Sweet Dinah won't you blow my horn?"
She's in the kitchen shucking corn
And when she hums
The whole world comes
To bless the day when she was born!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

Poem

Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem. Negative comments will result your account being banned.

Please Login to post a comment

George Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 9:30 PM
What a request to Dinah... who is otherwise busy.... ! Too naughty !
Leffanta Avatar
August 17, 2022 at 11:45 AM
It was written back in the day when African slave girls were referred to as, "Dinah". Aloha!
Roper Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 7:19 PM
Blessings also to Dinah... : ) Blessing my friend
Leffanta Avatar
August 17, 2022 at 11:43 AM
The Bible claims everyone is gifted with a talent! Aloha, Eve! Aloha!
Bauer Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 1:47 PM
i'm so glad the censors have no idea what you're talking about much of the time, rico! (not that there's anything they can do about it since you're too clever!) you make me laugh...
Leffanta Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 2:38 PM
If it even makes you smile, it is all worthwhile! Mahalo nui loa! Aloha!
Cunningham Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 1:33 PM
Lol sounds like a sweet lass. Tom
Leffanta Avatar
August 17, 2022 at 10:53 AM
Dinah originates in Genesis 34, but back in the 1830s, an Englishman (J.H. Cave) felt compelled to write about the lip service tendered by a kitchen maid. Cave's verses were sanitised and are now most familiar as verses in the classic American folksong, "I've Been Working on the Railroad" Aloha!
Dietrich Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 1:06 PM
hahaha
Slaughter Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 11:07 AM
Ditto what Connie said...Appealing as all get-out, Rico. I hope your father had as wonderful a sense of humor as do you.
Leffanta Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 2:41 PM
He couldn't die laughing as he was in a VA hospital where they amputated the wrong leg. Aloha!
Marcum Wong Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 10:58 AM
I love this appealing Limerick Rico. I also enjoyed reading your interesting comment below. Have a great day. Blessings xxoo
Leffanta Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 2:38 PM
Mahalo nui loa! Aloha!
Leffanta Avatar
August 16, 2022 at 10:33 AM
Like Elvis Presley, my father died on 16.VIII. "Dinah won't you blow my horn" was like his theme song, but they declined to play it at his funeral. I suggested Presley's, "How I love to feel her organs, in the chapel in the moonlight", but they declined to play that, as well. At least they refrained from planting him in the Missionary Position!
Get a Premium Membership
Turn off ads, get more exposure for your poetry, and get more features with a Premium Membership.
Book: Diverse Voices: The Poetry of Human Rights and the Pursuit of Peace