Delores at ‘Mumblings’ challenged us with a writing prompt. She said, 

Feel like having some fun with a writing prompt?
How many ways can you work the word 'sliver' into a sentence?
Maybe someone will write a poem.

This got me thinking so thank you for that, Delores. I need a kick-start in the mornings – or maybe just a kick.

Well, I just had to dish up some doggerel . . .

A sliver of liver

Makes small children shiver

When struggling to swallow

The unswallowable.

And all of a dither

Their tears start to slither,

Unstoppable river -

It’s horrible.

They gaze at the giver,

A look that would wither

The hardest of hearts -

Ineffable.

‘Just a sliver of liver,

To make you grow strong’,

The adult’s persuasion -

Implacable.

The sliver grows bigger,

And drier and harder,

It can’t be choked down –

Unspeakable.

If all children ate

The things that they ‘should’

They’d grow into giants –

Implausible.

(That got much darker than I intended!)

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