Cherry on Top Sundries Shoppe

Days of old

Every Sunday me and my Pop

Take a walk to the old sundries shop

Winters in boots and summer flip-flops

Anytime to the Cherry on Top

 

It’s not just a store, it’s so much more

A magic box filled with sundries galore

It’s everyone’s first and their last stop

All the time at the Cherry on Top

 

Welcoming doors always polished bright

Welcoming all to their sundries delight

Every week is a brand new crop

Any time at the Cherry on Top

 

A place with things too many to list

Lipsticks for lips that want to be kissed

There are bouncing balls and bats that bop

All the time at the Cherry on Top

 

Combs and brushes for hair and teeth

Halloween treats and Holiday wreaths

Baskets for bunnies with ears that flop

Any time at the Cherry on Top

 

Row after row of this’s and that’s

There are racks for jackets, hooks for hats

Handles for brooms and buckets for mops

All the time at the Cherry on Top

 

There’s cases packed with trinkets so bright

Batteries stacked for flashlights at night

They've got cards to send and cards to swap

Any time at the Cherry on Top

 

Way at the back, there’s medicines there

Carefully mixed by people who care

They carefully measure, count and chop

All the time at the Cherry on Top

 

Then the place - my favorite of all

It’s the lunch-counter, where I sit tall

Serving pie with whipped cream and gumdrops

Any time at the Cherry on Top

 

They've cakes, cookies, turkey and roasts

My dad always gets; juice, eggs and toast

Sunday’s best at the old sundries Shoppe

I get my sundae, cherry on top

 

The End

 

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Reviews

[Terpsichore]

Great poem about the way things used to be. Those little shops filled with almost everything imaginable have practically now all gone.

The rhyming is excellent here. T.