Bound: Best Friends Poetry

 

 

 

Poetry Monday's once a week.

You may have guessed, each Monday.

I don't participate every time,

But today I've come out to play.

My friends assign each week a theme,

Best Friends Day, they chose.

Now it's up to all of us,

to put our thoughts into prose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Bound

 

 

"I often wonder," I said one day,

"how we can be best friends.

When thinking about our differences,

the list just never ends."

"Like you're a staunch conservative,

I'm liberal through and through.

Our viewpoints could tear us apart,

it's happened to more than a few."

"And faith is a defining point,

religion's a priority for you.

I too am grounded by beliefs,

but you're Christian, I'm a Jew."

"You're comfortable in any crowd,

outgoing, all the way.

Me, I'm more an introvert,

don't quite know what to say."

"You're scattered, don't know how you find,

pretty much anything at all.

When it comes to organizing, I'm the queen,

messy truly makes my skin crawl."

 

"Procrastination's your middle name,

though you always get things done. 

I'm compelled to complete my tasks,

before I'm able to indulge in fun."

 

Trail Mix Cookie Bars

 

 

"You always try to diet and,"

I went on, "I always bake."

"Your friendship," (pun intended here),

"it truly takes the cake."

 

Heard me out, from start to end,

and here was her reply: 

"differences, they matter not,

love and respect binds you and I."

 

 

 

 

Wait!

Read more poetry, 

you're not through.

Some talented writers

are in this crew:

On the Border 

Messymimi's Meanderings 

Mother Owl 

 

Trail Mix Cookie Bars

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Printable Recipe

Ingredients:

1 tube (16.5 oz) sugar cookie dough

1 bag (14 oz) trail mix (without candy included)

1 cup Reese's pieces or peanut butter M&Ms

3/4 cup fruit flavored mini marshmallows

1 can (15 oz) sweetened condensed milk

Directions:
*Grease a 9 X 11 baking dish. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

*Press the sugar cookie dough into the bottom and partially up the sides of the baking dish.
*In a bowl, mix together the trail mix, Reese's pieces or peanut butter M&Ms, and mini marshmallows. Pour evenly over the cookie dough.

*Drizzle the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the trail mix. 

*Bake for 30 minutes. Allow to cool to room temperature before cutting into bars.