Summer Meals

Summertime meals are delicious sandwiches with sliced tomatoes green beans cooked with new potatoes Homegrown, healthy and nutritious garden vegetables and fruits a mixture of tubers and roots Meals are often expeditious hotdogs and burgers on the grill homemade ice cream an added thrill Barbecues can be ambitious preparation of sauce and meat could be hours until time to eat Summer desserts are capricious peach cobblers or watermelons freshly cut honeydew melons Cool drinks can be adventitious house special mama's ice tea sweet or lemonade to beat the heat Summertime meals are delicious Homegrown, healthy and nutritious Meals are often expeditious Barbecues can be ambitious Summer desserts are capricious Cool drinks can be adventitious July 13, 2018 New Constanza Contest by Emile Pinet Fifth Place Constanza The Constanza created by Connie Marcum Wong consists of five or more 3-line stanzas. Each line eight syllables. All the first lines of all the stanzas form an independent poem as the rest of the poem expresses a deeper meaning. The first lines are in mono-rhyme while the second and third lines of each stanza rhyme together. Rhyme scheme: a/b/b a/c/c a/d/d a/e/e a/f/f........etc. And the end verse is made up of the first lines of all the previous verses combined.