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Mamaw's Kitchen
she awakes at dawn,
ready for the day,
an old custom
she grew accustomed to
in sharecropper times,
she worked in boots of steel,
& within a factory,
she slaved away
with her five children,
and alcoholic husband,
in a tiny house
planted firmly in
the Mississippi Delta
shucking corn
and shelling peas,
in Mamaw's house,
a tastefully divine
culinary specialty
homemade biscuits
in her kitchen,
fingers, flour-dusted,
like magic from
an early winter's snow
she kneads the dough,
a cigarette dangling
off her crooked smile
the entire time
an old enamelware
coffee mug sits nearby
and the pot brews all day
and night
in this house
ready for the day,
an old custom
she grew accustomed to
in sharecropper times,
she worked in boots of steel,
& within a factory,
she slaved away
with her five children,
and alcoholic husband,
in a tiny house
planted firmly in
the Mississippi Delta
shucking corn
and shelling peas,
in Mamaw's house,
a tastefully divine
culinary specialty
homemade biscuits
in her kitchen,
fingers, flour-dusted,
like magic from
an early winter's snow
she kneads the dough,
a cigarette dangling
off her crooked smile
the entire time
an old enamelware
coffee mug sits nearby
and the pot brews all day
and night
in this house
Published 10th May 2020
Author's Note
Just a little tribute poem in honor of my Mamaw. Photo is not mine.
All writing remains the property of the author. Don't use it for any purpose without their permission.
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10th May 2020 11:55pm
Wow
A snapshot with this Very smoothly Written gem!!!
You caught heart and awwww with ease!!!
Excellent Ink!!!
A snapshot with this Very smoothly Written gem!!!
You caught heart and awwww with ease!!!
Excellent Ink!!!
11th May 2020 00:04am
11th May 2020 00:08am
12th Jun 2020 00:25am
It's wonderful way to connect with our parents and grandparents through these old family customs. In essence we carry on their traditions, by watching, learning and repeating what they do that our children and grandchildren carry them on.
Beautiful write. It made me smile too.
Beautiful write. It made me smile too.
23rd Jun 2020 9:33pm
23rd Sep 2020 10:53pm
