Missing Shelves

My newlywed daughter and her husband were at a garage sale looking at some furniture.  One of them said, with emphasis, ‘I can’t put books on missing shelves.”  Said that way, it came out like poetry.

On the family chat, they suggested we all try to make poems out of it.  It was a lot of fun. Some were supremely silly, some had Mother Goose energy, one wasn’t doggerel, but my favorite was this one.

Cultural Christianity

You can’t put books on missing shelves

You can’t make saints of Keebler elves

You can’t have Christ without the cross

You can’t refine and keep the dross