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For Your Choice H Poetry Contest sponsored by Brian Strand

The Ballad of the Pancake Brothers

two brothers hailed from the old country
from Donnybrook 
one more like an engineer
the other like a cook
they specialized in pancakes
the best, you can't deny 
Sean made them taste like heaven
Finn stacked them high

supplies came from all around
in wagons and in trucks
Sean whipped up the batter
and ol' Finn he constructs
with eggs from every chicken
and milk from every cow
maple syrup miracles
from the oats that they did grow 

when these flapjack masters
grew old and had to die
they made a stack of hotcakes
and they climbed it to the sky
kids, each time you eat griddle cakes
you should be like me
stack 'em high
and think of Sean and Finn McGee
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Rodrigues Avatar
April 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I must have read this before and thought I commented. I enjoyed this whimsical poem!! Stack ‘em high, let syrup run down the slopes and butter top!! Congrats!
Crandall Avatar
April 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yep, good memory! I reformatted it for the contest. I don't know who invented the pancake, but my hat's off to him (or her).
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