Revised Revisited

An old postcard of my home - When we owned it, the trees had grown up all around it, so it wasn't visible from the road. Today is Poetry Friday, and our hostess is Catherine at Reading to the Core . She's sharing a poem planned for the start of school....yipes! Already?? I missed last Friday's poetry, though I did write some. I read about "Where I'm From" poetry introduced by George Ella Lyon , and tried one. I also later found this form online: http://freeology.com/extras/whereimfrom2.html . It would be good for getting started with students. Though some have seen my original there version on FB, I have revisited and revised it. At one early point I had accidentally taken out the "lilacs" that I wanted in there, so they are back. Then my brother read it and mentioned "Brown Rim Cookies". No one else in the world that I knew ever made them, or had heard of them. So I've included the cookies in the poem and a recipe at