Poetry Stretch this week at The Miss Rumphius Effect is to write an abecederian poem, or poem constrained by alphabetical order. My grand-daughter, number # 2, had her tonsils and adenoids out along with sinuses cleaned out. A lot for one little four and a half. So this is for her:
A
brave little girl
challenged herself to
drink an
extremely
foul-tasting
grape flavored
helpful
icy medicine,
Jello juice to
keep away
lasting
memories of a
needed
operation that was
painful for the princess.
Quite
resilient,
she’s glad her
tonsils
understand the
very necessity of
x-cavating them along with
yucky
zwappy adenoids.
Poetry Friday is hosted by Amy at The Poem Farm.
Jone Rush MacCulloch 
X, Y, and Z are always the hardest (well, and Q and K, too, depending on how things go…) Great poem! Hopefully this surgery will bring her a lot of relief.
What a lucky little girl to have her grandma write her an ABECEDARIAN for her tonsillectomy! (How many girls can claim that?) What fun words for an un-fun day. Way to take that challenge on!
A.
(Send one to the nurses!)
That is perfectly delightful! I am sure she will never forget the day or the poem.
Terrific! The whole poem holds together nicely, and the last three lines had me zwapped!
I was totally enchanted. Grand-D #2 will be thrilled.
So clever and cute! I love what you did for “x” and “z” 🙂