Shrove Tuesday ~ Pancake Day!
I think that I shall never
see
A pancake paired with
Cornish Tea
A fresh baked scone with
clotted cream
Yes it's a Roman Catholic's
dream
Shrove Tuesday / Pancake Day
is here
Confession time ~ nothing to
fear
Saint Pancake says it's
meant to be
Feast first and then a fast
for me
Pancakes last the whole
day long
I need those carbs to keep me
strong
Through forty days and forty
nights
A Lenten season marked by
rites
Then with a flourish it will
end
Rebirth the message that we
send
And back to what was meant
to be
Pancakes with my Cornish Tea
.. with apologies to Joyce Kilmer
.. with apologies to Joyce Kilmer
a beautiful ghazal poem
ReplyDeleteNow I feel like having pancakes
much love...
scrumptiously divine!
ReplyDeleteI would not mind worshiping Saint Pancake... Yum-Yum.
ReplyDeleteSuch a scrumptious write!!❤️
ReplyDeleteI love this.. our traditions are different... we eat our traditional semla (a wheat bun filled with almond and sugar and topped of with cream)...
ReplyDeleteI wish pancake day was everyday Helen! Thanks for making me smile as always! <3
ReplyDeleteParadise can be many things, like Pancakes with some Cornish Tea. Thanks for taking us there
ReplyDeleteFeel like some tea myself:)
ReplyDeleteOh, is this a ghazal? It's lovely. Here it's the start of maple season so it will be off to the sugar shack on the weekend for some pancakes. My favorite season :)
ReplyDeleteAh, for scones with clotted cream. It is 30 years since my trip to Cornwall, where I tasted the real thing.
ReplyDeleteYour poem is a delicious treat.
Enjoyed feasting on your poem - may the force be with you in the fast
ReplyDeletescrumptious ~
ReplyDeleteThis is a great poem. I am late and it's Lent already. A few days in and I have not fallen off the wagon yet...chocs and sweets...the outlook is not looking good:)If I make it to the end of the week it will be a miracle.:)
ReplyDeleteDearest Helen,
ReplyDeleteFunny that as a Catholic I've only learned about this tradition of Shrove Tuesday's Pancakes, while here in the USA...
Sending you hugs and blessings,
Mariette
Clever, Helen. I miss Shrove Tuesday. The Brits observe it royally, not a hint there of it being religious. Olden days perhaps.
ReplyDeleteOur church (Baptist) today celebrated "Go Texan Day" with a breakfast, having what we call the 'longest breakfast table in the world.' It is a little longer than the average city block, made up of meeting size length tables. Each Bible class was assigned one or more tables to fill with food dishes. I started with a sausage biscuit sandwich and went from there, to the verge of gluttony. All this was inside in the front foyer. Our attendance this morning neared 4,000 (Second Baptist Houston 1463 Campus).
My favorite pancake dish is three fairly large buttermilk pancakes, one made into a fried egg sandwich--eaten with a fork, slightly soaked with maple syrup, one plain soaked with maple syrup, and the final one slightly soaked, then spread with a judicious amount of strawberry or raspberry preserve. On the side will be one or two sausage patties with the tops heaped with catsup and their bottoms sitting in maple syrup runoff from the pancakes. Coffee is the drink of the morning for this meal, preceded by a small glass of orange or apple juice.
BTW, been missing you. We were gone some in December, traveling. We cruised Princess from L.A. to the southern tip of South America and back up to Rio de Janeiro. Thirty-one days.
..
Deliciously divine, darling!
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