Constance La France Poet Rhyme

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Gone With the Pie

I will turn back the pages of my life to Christmas's so sweet and old,
        when me, mom and dad would make meat pies;
                 and we watched Gone With The Wind with sighs,
                           the pies were our Christmas surprise.
Mom mixed the meat, I talked and dad filled, and the dough rolled,
        seems to me that we baked fifty pies or more;
                 for all those coming to our Christmas Day door,
                         and into each pie our love and joy did pour.
It was a lot of work for us but they were beautiful pies to behold,
       oh, a long movie was that-  Gone With The Wind;
                 and we liked each word nice and unkind, 
                           I have some sweet memories in my mind.
Mom and grandma wrapped each cooked meat pie in waxed paper gold,
         and that movie still makes me happy in my heart;
                 each Gone With The Pie gift-   are part
                          of heart-warming memories that never depart.

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November 16, 2018

Poetry/Rhyme/Gone With The Wind
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1085-593-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.

Written for the contest, Punny Holiday Pies
sponsor, Michelle Faulker

Fifth Place

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Constance La France December 18, 2018 at 2:13 PM Thank you Michelle, Line, Alexis and Mark for visiting my poem with comments and congratulations, appreciate ~

Mark Toney December 17, 2018 at 12:56 PM Constance, congratulations on your win! A delightful poem filled with sweet memories :) Thank you for sharing. ~Mark Constance La France December 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM ~*~

Alexis Y. December 17, 2018 at 8:57 AM Hi BW, I enjoyed everything about this piece. Gone With The Wind is one of my favorite films. It's a classic. Congratulations on your win in the contest:-) Alexis Constance La France December 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM :-)

Line Gauthier December 16, 2018 at 9:52 PM Well done, Constance. Congrats on your win. Constance La France December 18, 2018 at 2:11 PM :-)

Michelle Faulkner December 16, 2018 at 4:34 PM This is absolutely heart warming, such a sweet memory, thanks for entering and congratulations! Constance La France December 18, 2018 at 2:11 PM Michelle thank you for that great contest and my placement, appreciate ~

Constance La France November 22, 2018 at 11:21 AM Darlene, thanks for visiting my poem and commenting. Yes, those meat pies were hard work but oh so delicious. I never read the book Gone With The Wind but must have been amazing. The movie sure brings back good memories for me.

Darlene De Beaulieu November 22, 2018 at 11:07 AM Hello Dear Heart, I also remember the meat pies my husband and i use to make. I do not do this any more. Gone With The Wind was also a good read. I read this book cover to cover. Have a nice day my friend.

Constance La France November 19, 2018 at 8:11 AM Andrea, thanks for visiting and commenting, yes it was a nice tradition, and those were French Canadian meat pies, very rich, one could only eat a small piece at a time, but they were amazing. I miss those kinds of traditions, now that my family is in Heaven above, my sister does try her best to put on a nice Christmas but it is not the same, I always say my mom and dad took Christmas with them when they went to heaven~

Andrea Dietrich November 18, 2018 at 7:36 PM I am reading down here that you actually made a whole bunch of those pies as stated in your poem.Wow, that is amazing, What a fantastic tradition your family had. I used to do assembly line Xmas treats. I'd make over 13 types of candies and cookies and send them out to at least 10 relatives. It was quite the project i invented. i stopped doint it before 2000. just no time after that and plus i would gain too much weight doing it!! I think your idea for this contest was clever.

Constance La France November 17, 2018 at 10:31 AM Jan, thanks for visiting my poem and commenting I appreciate so much, this is a true story, we had an assembly line going to make all those pies for Christmas, it was a real family task and one I treasure, and those pies were yummy too ~

Jan Allison November 17, 2018 at 10:16 AM what wonderful memories Constance:-) hugs jan xx

Constance La France November 16, 2018 at 11:22 PM Tom, thanks for visiting my poem and commenting, yes, memories are all we have in the end ~

Tom Cunningham November 16, 2018 at 2:06 PM Lovely verse Dear Heart, those past memories are priceless indeed. Good luck. Tom.