Another Shop On The Street With Mary Poppins

hard words with a candy center,

can such things be?

queried the wanderers fresh off the bus.

I went with them to see:

hard words with a candy center

and more, besides

in a sweet shoppe off the beaten way.

where egg whites were beaten

40 times a day to freshen the

peaks imaginations slid down

hard words with a candy center

lined up in apothecary jars

and here's a handful of the lemon

sunbursts

the caramel twirled the raspberry

indented shells overflowing with

hazelnut (reserved for the poets

or children after school.)

or blue ribboned ribbon candies

for the vocabulary builders

in the back of the books;

aurora bright, day long

lollipops and sundries

the sugar dusted conversation starters

glasslike, made with honey,

pink vanilla fudged

my and my again we sighed

taking some of each

till the last bell chimed

taking pink sackfuls back with us

and, at christmas time

red and green sacks of mince pie words

for those who never minced them

what a surprise 

ginger orange peeled snug under the Tree

"where did you get these?" 

(keeping the key lime answers for ourselves)

mary angela douglas 28 february 2014