When I was young
and trying to figure things out
the word on the street was
to be careful not to swallow
watermelon seeds or else
you’d get pregnant,
so for a while I could
be found carefully picking
through every slice as I ate it.
In Oklahoma there was no thought
of not eating watermelon.
We were very catholic that way.
even if I was a good
Baptist girl.
Later I learned it was
boys I had to be selective about and
began to enjoy watermelon again.
Please assume good intention here no denominational judgment is intended here. It just seemed to work with the whimsy of the poem. Or maybe I’m an equal opportunity critic 😉
Margo Roby’s Tuesday Tryouts suggested a creation story I guess I went with a procreation or maybe pre-creation story.
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I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who had to pick out seeds because her mama told her she’d get get pregnant because of those darn’d seeds!! Loved the poem!
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Its so amazing, our elders tell us such lies quite often.When i was a kid,my elders told me never to swollow the seeds or a watermelon (or whatever seed i am ingesting) plant will grow out of my mouth. Man !! i was so terrified 😦
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So sorry you had to endure fear and terror around the dinner table! Fish bones were an other fear factor at my home! As a mom a choking child can be a night mare. I just hope I did a better job of teaching table safety than my mom 🙂
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Yes they are,but at least they are truly harmful,not just misinterpretation of facts like in case of seeds.
Nice poem by the way,that i forgot to mention earlier !
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Ashish I try to get to you blog to comment and there is some entrainment site that gets in my way. I did like free spirit of Indian Flag. thumbs up to you for that!
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here it is http://mycameraflicks.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/8/
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oh so if you swallowed the seeds your mom would get pregnant? What pressure! So glad it connected with you lady 🙂
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What fun! And works just fine as creation, if you want to think of yourself as coming from watermelons ;-).
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Sure why not! What’s that new movie out about a little boy who comes from the garden? I’m sure many of us have been told we were found in the cabbage patch 😉
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I always heard that eating watermellow seeds grew a watermelon in your tummy.
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Oh yes I heard that one too. It’s amazing how these things get around. A friend from Philly never heard any of this.
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They just told me that seeds would cause appendicitis, which is a load of rubbish, because I didn’t have an appendix by then.
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Amazing how we are tricked when we were kids. It wasn’t just Santa and the Easter Bunny that were tall tales 😉
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What a picture. Now there is one thing to say about it. It’s a toss-up whether I’d want watermelon or icecream. Both are really healthy for us.(????) Good poem. Now I have eaten a few watermelon seeds in my time, and I never got pregnant. Our parents must have been lying to us. lol
Neal
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heck I think you were the one telling me Mr. 😉
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Who me?? Awww, I wouldn’t do something like that. Hee, hee
Neal
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Love your take on the prompt! Amusing for sure! Those little white fibs that circulate…haha!
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Sure is surprising how many of us grew up with those little white fibs! I always love it when a prompt matches what I was already cogitating…sort of. Thanks.
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🙂 I like those kind of coincidences also!
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