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What a cute kittie! Happy St. Patrick's everyone. Well I just finished a poem, and while it's not about St. Patrick's Day per se, it is kind of Irishy sounding.

I was looking for some silverware, and all the stores near my house had was large sets, and I just wanted a few pieces. Well, around here, we have attic sales and nick knack sales going on all the time, and I passed a sidewalk table that had a bunch of silver place settings on it.

And I mean real silver, it was really high quality, but it was just single pieces from many different sets. And then I realized, what's even the best silver spoon or fork worth if it's just by itself? Well, almost nothing, because what can you do with them, set a whole table with mismatched pieces? Well, we creatives in the Lair might get a kick out of something like that, but most people won't, so the price for this single expensive silver spoon? Fifty cents!

And looking it over I pondered and pondered it until I put together the next little ditty, which, in honor of St. Pat's we can pretend was an Irish spoon! Here, let me grab it off the hard drive and post it up next.

A St. Pat's poem about an Irish silver spoon. ;-)

Of Silver Spoons

On a table of wood
in an age of expansion
on a tray made of silver
in an impressive mansion

laid a spoon deftly made
brightly polished it shone
in the late of the day
by fruit jams and some scones

a long way it came
where of mines and great miles
to be where it was
amidst plenty and smiles

The sea, later years
it crossed and forgot
it traveled through forests
through dry deserts hot

over mountains and plains
forgetting the same
losing its set
till singly remained

one silver spoon
without match or pair
if it could tell tales!
where of and of where!

On a table of wood
in a well weathered box
in an land of contentment
in a small alley shop

laid a spoon made of silver
once polished and bright
now tarnished and dull
in box marked "Alright"

mixed with knives and with forks
and all other kinds
of settings for tables
and odd kitchen finds

lay the one silver spoon
then bought by one man
to stir tea and coffee
in a contented land

(c) starbase 3/15/07