My Mother Makes Prickly Pear Pastries
A Funny Prickly Pear Poem for Kids
My mother makes prickly pear pastries.
My mother makes prickly pear pies.
She’s known for her prickly pear donuts
and flavorful prickly pear fries.
She sometimes makes prickly pear muffins
or prickly pear cookies and cakes.
She likes making prickly pear pizzas
and prickly pear smoothies and shakes.
I’ll bet she could write a whole cookbook
with all kinds of prickly pear food.
I’m sure you’d have no trouble guessing
what every last page would include.
I might even like her concoctions,
and wouldn’t just snicker and scoff,
if once in a while she’d remember
to take all the prickly parts off.
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2012. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 5
Topics: Food Poems, Poems about Friends and Family
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Descriptive Poems, List Poems
Word Count: 108
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