Fun at the County Fair - Poem and Pictures

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure and visit Erin at The Water's Edge for Roundup!

I am away from my desk today, but I did want to pop in with some pics from last week's county fair.

Ours is one of just 22 counties in Alabama that still hosts a fair, and I kind of love it -- not the rides so much, as the noise and lights and crowds are a bit much for me, though I do respect and admire how the crew can create the fair in just hours... so many cables snaking along the ground!

What I really love are the agriculture exhibits. This year we caught the kids' 4-H lamb show. AND, we enjoyed discovering two of our son's photographs earned ribbons and prize money!

Oh, and the fair is just not the fair until hubby and I have shared a funnel cake. :)

And because it's Poetry Friday, here's a fair poem:

Fair Prayer

Thank you for this

September night,

for funnel cakes

and Midway lights.

For giant pumpkins,

sunflower blossoms,

and the way Mama's

        worries

are all but forgotten.

Thanks for hay bales

and raffle ticket sales,

how riding the Tilt a Whirl

makes me feel like

I'm Queen of the world!

Most of all thank you

for cotton candy

and how it melts

       fast-so-fast

but leaves a splash

of blue on my lips

that lasts forever –

or at least until

the next morning.

- Irene Latham
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Have YOU been to the fair this year? If so, maybe your experience needs to find its way into a poem??