Prospecting for Gold

   Prospecting for gold 
     in a mosquito-infested ravine
   The junior explorers all mighty keen
     to prove their skeptics curmudgeony scolds

   And sure enough, they return all gap-toothed smiles
     pans overflowing with rare and precious gems 
   The kind prospectors turn up in sequestered mountain glens
     at the bottom of creeks that twist and turn for miles

  Old-timers gawk at the kids in wonder 
     their colored stones, all shapes and sizes
   containing abundant suspicious surprises  
     ~ Whose rock garden did these little ones plunder
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Lawless Avatar
August 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM
my cousin once found a dog....it followed him home on the end of a rope.....
Wolf Avatar
August 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Now there's a dog after my own heart. lol.
Rodrigues Avatar
August 22, 2024 at 6:18 AM
Mighty curmudgeony! I wrote of gold too but with a totally different slant.
Wolf Avatar
August 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Indeed, you did, Kim!
Cunningham Avatar
August 21, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Lol love the twist at the end, look hard enough and you'll find it. Tom
Wolf Avatar
August 22, 2024 at 6:48 PM
I'll get there by playing 'Rocks, Scissors, Paper!' lol.
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