Lord love a Duck !

Wll laying and brimming over with Joie de vivre !

Gather round friends, time to make amends
and listen to my overt overture
no more prescriptions for pills, to chasten ills
prevention is preferable to cure

This may sound indiscreet, we are what we eat
not pretence or old wive's tale,
just as an apple a day, keeps the doctor at bay
likewise, a coy clue to the holy grail

A tasty yellow banana, is nutritious manna
fortified with ready energy,
consuming such food, after it is well chewed
creates positive, pulsating synergy

Eat plenty of tomatoes, salads and potatoes
for all are loaded with lycopene,
you can be confidant, absorbing antioxidant
neutralises, harmful cells in the spleen

But my piece de resistance, to salubrious sustenance
nothing more than a simple duck egg,
I hear, 'shock horror, golly gosh, what a load of tosh'
allow me to continue, I beg !

The domesticated duck, adheres to water and muck
and will totally become immersed,
to us what appears gloop, to a duck is sumptuous soup
which it consumes, to quench a vigorous thirst

Nutrients beneficial to well-being, are not easily seen
nor found in processed food,
insects, maggots and worms, make many squirm
but delicious to a duck and duly imbued

Don't be put off, by what a duck likes to scoff
or think me enigmatic and vague,
when ingested by this bird, such organisms are transferred
into pure protein, contained within its egg

So look after your health, for it is your wealth
don't deviate or become unstuck,
now here's my case, plain as the nose on your face..
"The Lord loves you and the Lord loves me, that's why he gave us the duck ! "

Author's Note

lycopene
noun: lycopene
a red carotenoid pigment present in tomatoes and many berries and fruits.

antioxidant
noun
a substance such as vitamin C or E that removes potentially damaging oxidizing agents in a living organism.

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

OMG Tom! Didn't know all that delicious ( ?) information about duck eggs, but makes perfect scientific sense! As to the rest- equally sound sense! And all contained in a clever and eloquent poem with great imagery, flow and rhyme. Love the duck & you !

[Tom]

Yes indeed Annette, so glad you see the merits and value of the ' mighty duck' ! Would love to be able to bring you round half a dozen of eggs, but I think it might take me a while before I'd get there..lol thanks as always my good friend!!

[Lydia Shutter]

"salubrious sustenance" how delightfully that rolls off the tongue! Yes, it is very important to have a healthy diet, no doubt about it! I am okay with tomatoes, berries, and nuts, but not sure I would touch a duck egg after reading about what the duck ingests! How you did this all in rhyme is beyond me, my friend. Best to spend a lifetime eating healthy if one wants to lead a happy life. Let's face it, good health goes a long way towards a goal of happiness. Still, not sure I can get past the maggots and worms! LOL Always enjoy your words, Tom. Lydi**

[Tom]

Thank you Lydia and yes you're so right, your health is indeed your true wealth!

[Sheila Kline]

Oh, you are indeed a man after my "desired to have a healthy heart" as I am in total agreement with you, and have yet to see it said in such an entertaining way!! I love duck eggs though I have not had them for years! The yolk is such a golden yellow and delightful - full bodied taste that just has to be good for us! My choice in eggs are those from free range chickens, and I really like the brown eggs the best.

I am an advocate of eating natural/organic/healthy and have been an almost total devotee for the past year. My last blood work was absolute proof of the advantages as I have never been so healthy, according to the numbers on the paper anyway! My nephew has studied for years and shares his wealth of knowledge with us, if we are wise enough to understand and accept the benefits of it. Some don't want to hear it as they down sugar laden drinks, nitrate filled foods, boxed mixes, so many preservatives they are too numerous to mention and on and on. Give me the basics, serve me some wild caught salmon, and if it is red meat, organic/natural, preferably bison.

But enough about what I do. I'll never look at a duck the same again! I can just see it sticking its head into the muck and ingesting all of those healthy organisms for it that make it healthy for me! Your rhyme, flow is superb - right along with the wonderful advice!

Thank you my friend!!

[Tom]

Thank you Sheila for such an indepth and informative review, yes indeed if you can't keep your own insist on free range, au-naturel is definitely the way to go....

[Beccy]

What a lovely and gorgeously humorous paean to both healthy eating and the duck. We buy our eggs locally from a farm shop, and how you can taste the difference twixt them and store bought. Haven't had a duck egg in ages, but I shall now search out and see what's on offer.

Much enjoyed. Beccy.

[Tom]

Thanks Beccy, you don't know what you're missing ?? lol

[Woody]

Amen, Doctor. I really like this poem, content, rhyme and all. and thank you for the information in your note. ducks eggs are not common in Tunisia. I didn't know they had a better nutricious value than chicken's eggs. I should try it some time.

[Tom]

Thanks Woody, wouldn't say there's much between them but look for free-range, that's the key!