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Poetry Prompt: Funniest Family Gatherings

By Heather Eure 4 Comments

Sometimes the funniest moments come during family gatherings. The assortment of different personalities and ages can create a recipe for hilarity. Let’s celebrate those unforgettable occasions with all the characters that make up a family.

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s poetry prompt. Here is an amusing poem from Laura we enjoyed:

Intersection

Yes, you look familiar, too.
I’m about to catch the bus—
I did go to P.S. 132.
Wait—is it—Gus?

You were the one who didn’t eat cheese
and gave me yours in the caf.
Remember spoon-catapulting peas
to make that sad kid laugh?

And learning to write, when we figured out
one letter could change a word—
see bee pee, boot toot poot—
and the principal overheard?

And behind the pull-down map of the earth
when you tried to give me a kiss?
Nah, there’ll be another. It’s worth
missing a bus for this.

—by Laura Lynn Brown

POETRY PROMPT: Write a poem recounting some knee-slapping funny moments with family.

Photo by naomii.tumblr.com. Creative Commons license via Flickr. Post by Heather Eure.

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Heather Eure
Heather Eure
Heather Eure has served as the Poetry Editor for the late Burnside Collective and Special Projects Editor for us at Tweetspeak Poetry. Her poems have appeared at Every Day Poems. Her wit has appeared just about everywhere she's ever showed up, and if you're lucky you were there to hear it.
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Comments

  1. Laura Brown says

    December 22, 2014 at 8:57 am

    Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Simply Darlene says

    December 23, 2014 at 11:55 am

    Great story poem, miss Laura. It’s amazing how so few words can set a mood, tell a tale and take others down their own memory lanes.

    🙂

    Reply
    • Laura Brown says

      December 23, 2014 at 8:16 pm

      Thank you, miss Darlene. I let the photo suggest the story.

      Reply
  3. SimplyDarlene says

    December 24, 2014 at 2:53 pm

    Here’s my poetical saga – although funny now, it was far from knee-slapping at the time 🙂

    home sick on the couch junior
    high rattled on without me as i lay
    fever racked, coughing – the price
    is right blared. scantily clad daytime dramas bored
    me sore. i dreaded another
    day with tissues,
    crackers, 7-up as my only
    friends. mom plugged in tree lights
    trudged to yonder truck, fur-lined snow
    boots tromping trails through drifts.

    she drove away and dastard desperation
    dragged me
    ‘neath the tree. i lifted, tipped,
    shook every gift
    twice. someone arranged scissors
    and tape upon my TV tray – as
    bubbles rose in my glass, i sunk
    to a new low

    and slit an inch beneath “to darlene
    love grandma” ink. covert collided with covet
    in glorious glee as i discovered a soon-to-receive
    walkman (it was the ‘80’s after all). a walkman of all
    blessed things! i re-taped, slid malfeasance box
    ‘neath skirted, temptress tree

    her red twinkly winks taunted
    me through a sleepless night. i faked a low
    temp on the morrow (cold water works wonders)
    mom declared me fit as i writhed ‘neath
    the sheets. more lies and deceit, oh, what’d
    become of me? off to school i went.

    some daze later… family gathered ‘round, paper
    flew. bows stuck to heads, laughter
    rollicked, reeled and then grandma
    handed me a smallish box. i bit my lip
    swallowed my drool. out i slid
    three hand-painted ceramic butterflies – what the
    heck?! my beloved kin mistook my wide
    eyed dismay, my teenage angst
    my piercing pain for awe and
    wonder ‘neath the jeering tree.

    as they dragged remnants out to burn, i tore
    snickering tinsel and limb from limb, vowing
    never again to peek ‘neath shiny wrapping

    without shaking all contents free.

    Reply

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