Escargot
I am an ally of the truth, which lives the whole world over,
hiding beneath leaves of grass or hyacinths or clover.
A tiny snail detective, sliding slowly with no sound,
scoping out a food source over every edge and mound—
with its single jaw at work, nature’s innovation
cleans up all her messes with its constant mastication.
Cutter ants march by like time, disposing hour by hour,
of beauty we aren’t finished with, flower after flower,
but the snail goes gliding by, almost beyond detection,
eating everything in sight—less picky in selection.
From animal waste to fungus, and even other snails,
the appetite of gastropods seemingly never fails.
And then, ludicrous humans, knowing not what they do,
themselves devour these creatures who deign to dine on poo!
Prompt words today are snail, innovation, detective, march, ally and clover.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Ouch!
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Sorry… Hope I didn’t destroy your appetite.
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Never had or will have snails. But it’s gross to eat them
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Amen
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🙏🏼🙏🏼😅
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Oh, this one should become a classic, in fact I felt that it would be great to put into your next “Kids book on poetry”…..That is until I got to the last line, (but that can be edited)~! HA~! Anyway I really like it,,,,if that matters~!
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Ah, but how could I cut that last line?
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Do not change that last line. Kids like poo. This is a really nice poem.
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I realize that it is actually a word often used by mothers when a child is still a baby, but in a children’s book, I am sure it might bring negativity. You know me, I try to please, but who am I to edit another person’s work, especially one this well done. The quickest edit (only to the children edition), that I may do would be: devour these creatures who deign to dine there too!
Please forget that I said anything, actually I like it as you wrote it, and would not even change that one word~!
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“Everyone Poops” was a best-selling children’s book in the nineties…I quote:
“A good-selling book will do about 10,000
copies in a year, and “Everyone Poops” has sold 40,000 in three months.”
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WOW can you figure out a way to put it in several times, to help sales~?
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That said, I really don’t think this is a chidren’s poem.
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I am so glad Kosher rules exclude escargot!
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ME TOO~!
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😻
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Ha.. see? Someone is looking out for you. My rules exclude it as well.
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I sort of gathered that, Judy.
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Please forgive me for using thy name in jest in today’s poem, Dolly! You are the only recipe-arian I read, so had to make use of thee!!! All in good fun. Forgive?
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The pic is wonderful but I don’t think I could eat one. 😁
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This is funny and entertaining at the same time. I loved it ❤
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So will you be eating escargot in the future, Jeanette?
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