Shopping For Salad
Grandma likes her peppers yellow
since they taste so fresh and mellow.
Atop mixed greens, I’ll slice in strips,
then feta, beets for tangy nips.
Her favorite olives in this jar
will put this salad right on par.
Then these walnuts for extra crunch
for my grandma’s potluck lunch.
To the senior place where she moved,
our friends take food. In this we’ve proved
that though her life may now seem strange,
our gatherings don’t have to change.
We’ll still share hugs and talk and laugh,
uninterrupted by the staff.
I pay and get my change (cha-ching!)
and dream of what our friends will bring.
But then Gran calls me on the phone.
New lockdown! She must eat alone.
Friends can’t visit her senior place.
I must eat this at my home base.
Contest name: An Interesting Couplet Poetry Contest
Contest sponsor: Dr. Funom Makama
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