Don Mulford, The Contest</head><body><center><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.com/p1.gif border=0 alt=Saviodsilva></center><hr color=3C00FF size=4><br><font size=4 face=arial><b><a href=27.htm>Don Mulford</a></b></font><br><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.net/poem/a/1.JPG border=0 alt=Poem></center><br><font size=3 face=arial><b>The Contest</a></b></font></center><blockquote><blockquote><p align=left><font face=arial size=2><b>On the radio this morning (I was half awake and yawning),<br>I heard about the prize whilst in the shower.<br>I could win a lot of money for a poem! It was funny<br>That the subject of the poem must be Flour.<br>I thought, What an odd contest! but I'll have to do my best,<br>If I'm going to meet the judges' expectations.<br>And the thoughts went through my head of the ways to rhyme with bread<br>But the contest set some tough specifications.<br>So I studied first, the Baker, he's the bread and pastry maker;<br>He kneads the dough because he needs the dough!<br>But there's such a miscellany of bread recipes, so many<br>Types of flour that he always has to know.<br>We'll often stand and scratch our head when we choose a loaf of bread,<br>But we seldom stop to think about who made it;<br>Who decided whether white bread on the shelf would be the right bread,<br>When the customer out in the aisle surveyed it?<br>It's the baker's daily task for supplying what we ask for,<br>And demands that he has many kinds of flour!<br>For it's often that the white kind can't be used, it's not the right kind,<br>And the customer can change her mind each hour.<br>So there's white flour, brown flour, whole wheat flour too;<br>There's days when only enriched flour will do;<br>Then there's corn flour, and rye flour, and cracked wheat just for you,<br>And down the aisle there's cauliflower too!<br>When I'd written all I could I knew it wasn't very good!<br>But the theme had kept me pondering for hours,<br>Then my wife read through my rhyme and she said, A waste of time!<br>It's not FLOUR the contest is about, it's FLOWERS! </b></font></p></blockquote></blockquote><hr color=0000ca size=3><center><font size=2 face=arial><b><a href=http://www.isavo.net/poem/sk4.htm>This Poem's Index Page 1</a><br><a href=http://www.yensa.net/poem/sk4.htm>This Poem's Index 2</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com/poems.htm>Poetry Website</a><br><a href=http://www.saviodsilva.com>Saviodsilva</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com>Isavo Site</a></b></font></center><SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.saviodsilva.org/r/fantasy.js></SCRIPT></body></html>