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The Sky Was
picky teaser lota pizza flamingo burnin' gerhkin wordin' processing pro gramme lots a purple tan tanging tongue tear stupid deer croissant croissant croissant (are you here?) rich and faming silly daydream little cupid castle cooped chicken kickin' malicious software (are we there?) yet cooky suki mikky mopy skiing slopy tear out control shout doubt pout trouble double choc tim tam ginge sortafairy tail of a bat rat smack (should we pack?) and CRACK goes ankle blowing soccer flowin' talk tak no silly silly silly all these years (should I be crying these tears?) hello again a pen? why thanks some lunch punch crunch an ankle swollen ready all flail fall (?)
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 3:43 AM UTC
not being sarcastic not
Floating on a stream of delicate warm milk I gather handfuls of froth udders tepid silk. Chilled hands collect warmth on a cold night, Fulfilled memories of past moments do ensue. Each one descends into foamy warm truth I pick out the choc chips going down smooth.
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Dec 20, 2015
Dec 20, 2015 at 10:44 AM UTC
Dipping In Warm Milk
I stood in line to be weighed in the bathroom of the nursing home Anne crutched herself behind me you haven't got a chance in hell of winning that chocolate bar Kid she said I've seen more meat on a butcher's pencil stuck behind his ear might win I said might fly she said   the kid in front of me got on the green metal scales and the nun moved the weight along the top not you Malcolm she said the kid got off sulkily I got on the scales and the nun moved the weight I looked at her black and white headdress her pinched features not you Benny she said I got off and walked away Anne awkwardly got on the scales holding herself on her one leg the stump of the other hanging there best so far Anne the nun said told you Kid you didn't have a chance guess not I said as she crutched herself along side of me not to worry if I get the choco bar I’ll give you a quarter for being a good friend no other in this **** hole gets a look in we went along to our rooms come in Kid she said I hesitated come in I want to ask you something I stood swaying uncertain what if one of the nuns comes along?   what if I don't give you quarter of the choc bar? she said I followed her in to the girls dorm no one else was there just she and me she closed the door with her backside right Kid I want you to do me a favour favour? I said sensing uncertainty hit my gut yes I want you to sneak along to the kitchen tonight and liberate some biscuits liberate? I said biscuits? yes you know what biscuits are don't you those hard things with cream in the middle or chocolate on one side I know what biscuits are I said but what do you mean liberate? take some from the big tin they have on the shelf in larder take? I said you mean steal? steal take liberate whatever word you want to use Kid what if I get caught? don't get caught but what if I do? Anne sighed sat on the edge of her bed I thought you were someone I could rely on Kid not some cowardly custard yellow belly I looked at her leg stump sticking out the other leg reached to the floor if you're really good I’ll let you touch my stump she said no need I said I'll try tonight sneak down after lights out good Kid she said she took my right hand and lay it on the stump and held it there it felt warm and soft she let my hand go good huh? wish the rest was there she said off you go and don't get caught I nodded and backed out of the room seeing her cover the stump with her dress and smile see you I said you bet she said I walked away thinking of the big steal of biscuits unthought through by my 10 year old brain as yet.
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 12:49 PM UTC
ANNE AND THE TASK.
I stood in line to be weighed in the bathroom of the nursing home Anne crutched herself behind me you haven't got a chance in hell of winning that chocolate bar Kid she said I've seen more meat on a butcher's pencil stuck behind his ear might win I said might fly she said   the kid in front of me got on the green metal scales and the nun moved the weight along the top not you Malcolm she said the kid got off sulkily I got on the scales and the nun moved the weight I looked at her black and white headdress her pinched features not you Benny she said I got off and walked away Anne awkwardly got on the scales holding herself on her one leg the stump of the other hanging there best so far Anne the nun said told you Kid you didn't have a chance guess not I said as she crutched herself along side of me not to worry if I get the choco bar I’ll give you a quarter for being a good friend no other in this **** hole gets a look in we went along to our rooms come in Kid she said I hesitated come in I want to ask you something I stood swaying uncertain what if one of the nuns comes along?   what if I don't give you quarter of the choc bar? she said I followed her in to the girls dorm no one else was there just she and me she closed the door with her backside right Kid I want you to do me a favour favour? I said sensing uncertainty hit my gut yes I want you to sneak along to the kitchen tonight and liberate some biscuits liberate? I said biscuits? yes you know what biscuits are don't you those hard things with cream in the middle or chocolate on one side I know what biscuits are I said but what do you mean liberate? take some from the big tin they have on the shelf in larder take? I said you mean steal? steal take liberate whatever word you want to use Kid what if I get caught? don't get caught but what if I do? Anne sighed sat on the edge of her bed I thought you were someone I could rely on Kid not some cowardly custard yellow belly I looked at her leg stump sticking out the other leg reached to the floor if you're really good I’ll let you touch my stump she said no need I said I'll try tonight sneak down after lights out good Kid she said she took my right hand and lay it on the stump and held it there it felt warm and soft she let my hand go good huh? wish the rest was there she said off you go and don't get caught I nodded and backed out of the room seeing her cover the stump with her dress and smile see you I said you bet she said I walked away thinking of the big steal of biscuits unthought through by my 10 year old brain as yet.
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Heaven is plain my choc biscuit deceived me again with its ******** but it’s never enough this addiction is tough come away with me now and we’ll risk it
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Mar 27, 2010
Mar 27, 2010 at 3:24 AM UTC
Chocolate Biscuit
Chocolate heals, Substitute meals, Our new faith, The prophet sayeth, Chocolate heals, Break the packet's seals, Grow cocoa beans, Better than **** Choc's the new religion, For all of us pigeons, Good for endorphins, Fat hips a'morphing, So what for fat hips? Chocolate's the blip, Substitute meals, Yes, chocolate heals.
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Oct 23, 2015
Oct 23, 2015 at 12:34 AM UTC
CHOCOLATE HEALS!
fifteen hundred Starbucks shuttered by a maintenance miscue. How will I face this morning without their bitter brew. Their water filter system was due for an overhaul. Now this forced decaffeination has me climbing up the walls. Where's my choc o-mocha latte, topped with whipped cream cooled with skim? Without those extra calories I'll soon be down a chin. I miss my blonde barrista, Jill. and her great good morning smile. Rakeesh at Dunkin Donuts' lacks her figure and her style. I'm reduced to getting coffee from a roadside hot dog stand. why he doesn't have free WI-fi I'm at a loss to understand.
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May 24, 2012
May 24, 2012 at 7:11 AM UTC
Unchained Malady
It hurts, it hurts more than when I ended up in hospital, I slipped from the curved metal stairs and cracked all my ribs, You sat on the frosty steel chair and fed me warm leek soup all day, I was high and *we cracked *** jokes all through the visiting hours*. Or when I fractured my right leg and couldn’t walk for months, you wheelchaired me to all my revered museums, And when it rained that evening and I felt trapped and pathetic in the ****** wheelchair, *You lifted me up and twirled me around and kissed every sore spot in my body including my terrible heart, Till I started laughing, all giddy and intoxicated with your droplets brushed lips* Or when I burnt my fingers while making green curry and you had to take me to infirmary, They bandaged my fingers in bubblegum pink gauze an told me the scars would never leave and I wouldn’t be able to write or hold you for a week, You made me churros that whole week with Swiss choc dipping and kissed all my scars away, painting vibrant swallows on them. I loved you, so much it made me insane, but it also made me breathe. Funny, how the direction of the wind has changed. It hurts now, more than it ever did, I stand on the steps of metropolitan museum of art and the ache in my veins magnifies, The longing ablaze like all your plaid shirts, nirvana records and all the synthetic lilies you gave me, quoting they will never dry up, Like our love will always remain, burning on my terrace Funny how, now I don’t believe a sentence you said. I sing all the songs we loved for the last time, to get it all out, of my system and bleeding heart. My lips get greedy for the praised lyrics and midnight kisses. The rocking chair in the balcony swinging in the breezy night I hope it’s you, my eyes left disappointed at the empty gloomy sight My heart getting accustomed to Bukowski instead of much devoured Rilke. Sometimes in life you never understand why they left, why it ended all of a sudden? When did you stop loving me and when all my importance vanished into thin air like you did? Sometimes all that is left to do is accept it and move on, and that may be the seemingly impossible part. Sometimes you just have to pour water to the vivid fire for putting gasoline was proving to be poisonous and   CHOKING.
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Jul 6, 2013
Jul 6, 2013 at 6:07 AM UTC
Hurricane can never be predicted,but it still comes.
It hurts, it hurts more than when I ended up in hospital, I slipped from the curved metal stairs and cracked all my ribs, You sat on the frosty steel chair and fed me warm leek soup all day, I was high and *we cracked *** jokes all through the visiting hours*. Or when I fractured my right leg and couldn’t walk for months, you wheelchaired me to all my revered museums, And when it rained that evening and I felt trapped and pathetic in the ****** wheelchair, *You lifted me up and twirled me around and kissed every sore spot in my body including my terrible heart, Till I started laughing, all giddy and intoxicated with your droplets brushed lips* Or when I burnt my fingers while making green curry and you had to take me to infirmary, They bandaged my fingers in bubblegum pink gauze an told me the scars would never leave and I wouldn’t be able to write or hold you for a week, You made me churros that whole week with Swiss choc dipping and kissed all my scars away, painting vibrant swallows on them. I loved you, so much it made me insane, but it also made me breathe. Funny, how the direction of the wind has changed. It hurts now, more than it ever did, I stand on the steps of metropolitan museum of art and the ache in my veins magnifies, The longing ablaze like all your plaid shirts, nirvana records and all the synthetic lilies you gave me, quoting they will never dry up, Like our love will always remain, burning on my terrace Funny how, now I don’t believe a sentence you said. I sing all the songs we loved for the last time, to get it all out, of my system and bleeding heart. My lips get greedy for the praised lyrics and midnight kisses. The rocking chair in the balcony swinging in the breezy night I hope it’s you, my eyes left disappointed at the empty gloomy sight My heart getting accustomed to Bukowski instead of much devoured Rilke. Sometimes in life you never understand why they left, why it ended all of a sudden? When did you stop loving me and when all my importance vanished into thin air like you did? Sometimes all that is left to do is accept it and move on, and that may be the seemingly impossible part. Sometimes you just have to pour water to the vivid fire for putting gasoline was proving to be poisonous and   CHOKING.
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After Pamela Sutton’s “Forty” Since when are words lost, numbers dominating? Until today, it was vernacular, not mathematics. All changed at 18 when numbers engulfed my life like a tsunami. 1 life. 1 drive to school, traffic on the 405, 25 minutes; 10-minute parking; first class at 8. 8 dollars per hour x 3 day work week = no shopping. Under my parents’ life insurance, for now. One life. One dream of commencement, a sea of black and gold; students as adults, graduating, growing up, careers: the only things that matter now. One dream of wheeling a patient into the OR and he grasps my hand. One saved life. 66 specialties for a nurse. 8 stories in CHOC Hospital; 279 beds. One goal for everyone; nurses, patients, families— disease-free, healthy. One hospital specializing in children; one in Orange, thousands of facilities. One late night in Riverside the kitchen fluorescents slowly brings the eyes of two, one father, one daughter, to a close. 58 notecards, handwriting messy and smudged. 12 prefixes, 37 roots, 9 suffixes. 44 years: 1 student: Dad. The point where my future was clear. One goal, one career, one life. The subtle hum of the white lights lulls us to sleep as the room slowly darkens. September 2013
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Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 1:33 AM UTC
Eighteen
atherien [1] Que tu étais vive et jolie sous les flambées très ondulées de ta chevelure rousse, comme un incendie en brousse. Ardente et vive tu étais, à soigner les corps et les maux, de tes malades, un peu tes enfants, dont je crois que tu n’avais pas. Dans ton cabinet de la « rue des soupirs », tu ravissais des vies promises à la Mort hideuse et cruelle qui se vengea de cette offense. Et pourtant ta science et ta passion resteront inoubliées de tes malades et ta photo de la belle naïade continue à nous charmer dans la salle d’attente comme un diamant très pur. Oh, jeune docteur Soleilhavoup Comment se fait il que tu la vie t’ait été ôtée si tôt par l’infâme camarde, hélas, de la vie toujours victorieuse ? vielle blafarde qui hait les médecins comme autant d’obstacles à la malfaisance de sa faux. Paul Arrighi – Toulouse – le 15-11-2008 [1] Ce poème fut commencé le 24 -01-2009, sous le choc et la douleur du décès d’une jeune doctoresse si secourables. Jamais alors je n’imaginais que, ce si jeune femme ait pu partir la première. Son décès fulgurant vient l’injustice et le chaos qui régissent le règne des maladies et l’insolent scandale des jeunes vies écourtées.
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Dec 13, 2014
Dec 13, 2014 at 12:42 PM UTC
Elégie au Docteur Catherine Soleilhavoup
It was the eve of my birth and within that moment of creation I was a fallen as the echo of my cries were thrown into the industrial ******* bin behind the old take-away. My teen years were so lewd and contrived, I thought I had friends, but I was like the ******* I was at birth they used me a threw me away and again I was alone. It was upon my tenth birthday that I had lingered in this abyss long enough, I decided on that day that I would greet those as I was greeted to return those favours ten fold , My step-dad he was my first gift to my suffering I introduced him to that pain as I quenched his sight or lack of with a scuffed spoon rims shaper than a blade I said words as he screamed. "I  will scoop singular or two, depends on your taste, Son, please listen to me, he spoke in quivering stuttered vocals. But I thought it delightful in laughable sniggers. See how I saw the world, feel the occasions that converted my emotions to what I'm debilitated to this moment now. I scooped them out like a ice cream, I thought in this moment of Mint choc chip, and pineapple sorbet. Mmm the taste that was seeping from lips. But that was the blood validating itself on my skin. All I heard was his voice crying and it made me regurgitate what I had consumed. It was on the floor not tasting as it went down like victory. I just plunged the spoon into his throat... I didn't want to taste his life, I just wanted to watch it seep on his white chocolate shirt. It was like strawberry sorbet with a bitter taste as I licked a echo of it of my hand "why did I tast it at all?? I had ended so many stains on my life, took their eyes to show them how I felt. If I had kept them looking like pickled eggs in a jar. Thinking if they could still see each others moments in each others sight. I took their eyes, so each could see how it felt for what they put me through. I had no guilt, I just consumed everything they saw and laid it to rest. I wasn't killing I was just releasing their  guilt and consuming it all.
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Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016 at 6:13 PM UTC
I Took His Eyes So He Could See How It Felt
It was the eve of my birth and within that moment of creation I was a fallen as the echo of my cries were thrown into the industrial ******* bin behind the old take-away. My teen years were so lewd and contrived, I thought I had friends, but I was like the ******* I was at birth they used me a threw me away and again I was alone. It was upon my tenth birthday that I had lingered in this abyss long enough, I decided on that day that I would greet those as I was greeted to return those favours ten fold , My step-dad he was my first gift to my suffering I introduced him to that pain as I quenched his sight or lack of with a scuffed spoon rims shaper than a blade I said words as he screamed. "I  will scoop singular or two, depends on your taste, Son, please listen to me, he spoke in quivering stuttered vocals. But I thought it delightful in laughable sniggers. See how I saw the world, feel the occasions that converted my emotions to what I'm debilitated to this moment now. I scooped them out like a ice cream, I thought in this moment of Mint choc chip, and pineapple sorbet. Mmm the taste that was seeping from lips. But that was the blood validating itself on my skin. All I heard was his voice crying and it made me regurgitate what I had consumed. It was on the floor not tasting as it went down like victory. I just plunged the spoon into his throat... I didn't want to taste his life, I just wanted to watch it seep on his white chocolate shirt. It was like strawberry sorbet with a bitter taste as I licked a echo of it of my hand "why did I tast it at all?? I had ended so many stains on my life, took their eyes to show them how I felt. If I had kept them looking like pickled eggs in a jar. Thinking if they could still see each others moments in each others sight. I took their eyes, so each could see how it felt for what they put me through. I had no guilt, I just consumed everything they saw and laid it to rest. I wasn't killing I was just releasing their  guilt and consuming it all.
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There came a rabbit To inhabit A space In my Easter basket. He wasn't Peter, Or Velveteen, But chocolate And much sweeter. He wasn't always Chocolatey, But furry, Like the others. But he was determined In his drive, To make my Easter That much sweeter. So he wished Upon a star To morph into A rabbit bar Of nugets, Caramel and nuts; And then for added Greater taste; He asked for drenching In choc'late.
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Mar 16, 2015
Mar 16, 2015 at 1:51 AM UTC
Choc'late Rabbits
Anne stands on crutches in the queue to be weighed by a nun in the home for sick kids Skinny Kid she whispers to the boy just in front if I win the choc bar I'll share it just with you if you win who will you share it with? you of course he replies in soft voice other kids up the front fail to put on more weight so don't win the choc bar it's you now Benedict a nun says Skinny Kid stands steady on the scales you've put on 5 ounces she tells him he gets off of the scales and Anne crutches up on one leg her stump swings underneath her red dress steady now the nun says Anne stands as steady as she can you've put on 7 ounces the nun says so you win the choc bar Anne smiles and crutches herself off of the scales the nun puts the choc bar in Anne's dress pocket let's go Kid Anne says and they go out the back on the lawn she crutching to the far white table and white chairs with the Kid beside her making sure she's ok he pulls out a white chair and she sits the Kid sits beside her and they share the choc bar between them 12 ounces gained in weight between them.
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May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 2:35 PM UTC
THE WEIGH IN 1959.
Couchers de Soleil sur la Comtale ou un vaisseau sur la ville Il est en Toulouse, le soir comme un vaste vaisseau fantôme Jetant sa proue sur le canal et filant droit sur le cap Saint-Sernin, c'est la Comtale en son écrin. Comme une enchanteresse de couleurs, mêlée d'ocre du soir et d'orange soleil peignant les voiles de ce vaisseau. La luminosité en terrasse en fait un bel observatoire de la palette des nuages, des jeux infinis du soleil et des sourires de la lune qui scintillent sur Saint Sernin, font resplendir les grands grues de l'ancienne Toulouse, réveillée de son sommeil. Quand le vent d'autan souffle fort, comme un orchestre laissé seul sans partition et sans baguette, «La Comtale» frémit sous le choc et ce noble vaisseau de pierres voit ses terrasses dévastées, par les outils de jardinage et les plantes taillées menues. Mais chère et haute nef, «La Comtale», tu n’es jamais toi-même que lorsque le soleil luit et fait rougeoyer les briques ocres, transforme tes terrasses en jardins étagées à l’ombre des stores tirés des plantes aromatiques et des cactées qui parfument de menthe, de poivre et de miel nos thés glacés et limonades sirotées avec joie. Paul d’Aubin (Paul Arrighi), Toulouse (02 avril 2014)
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Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 3:08 PM UTC
Couchers de Soleil sur la Comtale ou un vaisseau sur la ville
mittened hands wrapped around hot choc mugs light-hearted bickering over the tones and shades of leaves yet to fall chilly sun-streaked mornings of fresh earthy air and early hibernation nights of gathered quietude that indulgent autumn for which she longed seemed not to arrive at least not as expected set to follow the bright bustling summer excitement always written to precede the forward-looking days of winter's introspection ordained as it was by the dictums of old those of time and tide instead her blooming has been a wearisome back-and-forth between the extremes of each untimely and unexpected yet unfortunately necessary before she might witness those flowers of hers blossoming under the warmth and light of that newly shining Sun
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Dec 1, 2023
Dec 1, 2023 at 9:55 AM UTC
indulgent autumn
There IS a reason we're told to beware of what we...everything, really. (sonnet #MMMMMMMCMLXXXVIII) Swear off the pleasures I knew ere cuz thence I'm too, what, eh? beleaguered to avail Me of indulgence, yes.  No choc'late, pale As loving oft to nibble it fr'intents Home in my father's house.  And thus, what hence? The id'ot box passe, I'd in betrayl Now clean forgot the litrature's detail Which shaped my thoughts and manners, yea, my sense. Take oh, the lux'ry of an essay fer Lo, minutes on familiar turf I knew Weeks, months, so many years ago as twere Likeas my other "food," and what ah, to Effect?  As if my thinking clears in poor 'Scuse for brief seconds, oh how sweet tis too! 24May19d
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May 25, 2019
May 25, 2019 at 11:50 PM UTC
Leigh Hunt? Ye Never Know What...Yes?
1. Wish I could Think up Stacks of the best stuff And a snippet of summat ....brilliant To.....cheer you up. 2. ...oh... Wait! Tell you what :) For now, I send you A double-dark choc. Essemessically, of course! Enjoy. Please? 3. I am silly, I know. But I want you to smile. Smiling.... Proves your heart works! And to chill. Am I a fool? Maybe. Yet, do ye see the worry in my eye? No.....I don't  TINK so! S T, 18 April 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
Apr 18, 2013 at 5:32 AM UTC
Essemessic Choco-lah
Fairies and fancies and flippant romances and all things bright and gay. Cream cakes and choc flakes and raspberry mistakes rise up in  a spiralling fray. Blue skies and greenflies and warm-sugared apple pies and the scent of freshly cut hay. Strawberries and Ice cream’s and mouth-watering Nectarines succumb to the heat of the day. Golden-crust pastries and honey –drenched fig leaves made in the old-fashioned way. Piping-hot dainties with oak-coloured bases that refuse to come out of the tray. A gaze up above to a snowy white dove sees the sky go from golden to grey. From twilight to moonlight, from moonlight to starlight the end of a beautiful day.
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Oct 24, 2010
Oct 24, 2010 at 7:11 AM UTC
BILBERRY GAGE
The journey of memory mealtime lane. First stop, let’s get it over. The painful place of supper time tension. Watching the clock, start the race To produce the evening prize. Another plate – protein, vege, A third of carbs is wise. Table laid, stage is set, But there’s a stomach-churning silence, I’m staring at the wooden spoon. His sallow face swallows and the Fork shuffles, napkin placed on the pile. His footsteps leave, we try to ignore The deserted plate - talk and smile Come on now, memory mealtime store Fill me a tasty smell – Grandmas’s larder – whole room devoted! Crinkled brown paper nesting Squares of brownies, gingerbread. Eyes behold, like moons of light Boubon biscuits, french sponge fingers. Other worldliness, such a sight! Now take me back to nice school dinners, Waiting down the hall, up the playground steps. Will treacle cake all have gone, Just leaving rice and prunes? Dreadful cold white mash potato scoops Neatly spread apart. My favourite - dark chocolate sponge And jam pink marshmallow **** Join me to sitting round My family kitchen table, ‘Best bit is the skin,’ Dad and me agree. He approves as I eat My little sister’s potato jacket. I’m good and there’s plenty And we’re all feeling full. Every plate eaten clean, completely empty. I remember secretly sneaking Opening tins and picking out pieces Of chocolate from choc chip cookies. By the window, our Kenwood soda stream, It’s bottles like shop bought fizzy pop! And Dad’s homemade wholemeal loaf Unlike any bread from the shop. My Sixth form packed lunch – Two Ryvita sandwiches with a kipling cake, A calorie counting diet Eaten by morning break Whilst writing the stove is forgotten And now the smell of overcooked stew - Burnt pan supper – a frequent memory. I think I can save it, definitely cooked through. Arriving at the end of mealtime lane, A message to hang in the kitchen high above Something I’ve learnt to remember, That the food in our lives must be all about love.
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May 23, 2021
May 23, 2021 at 5:09 PM UTC
The Journey of Memory Mealtime Lane
The journey of memory mealtime lane. First stop, let’s get it over. The painful place of supper time tension. Watching the clock, start the race To produce the evening prize. Another plate – protein, vege, A third of carbs is wise. Table laid, stage is set, But there’s a stomach-churning silence, I’m staring at the wooden spoon. His sallow face swallows and the Fork shuffles, napkin placed on the pile. His footsteps leave, we try to ignore The deserted plate - talk and smile Come on now, memory mealtime store Fill me a tasty smell – Grandmas’s larder – whole room devoted! Crinkled brown paper nesting Squares of brownies, gingerbread. Eyes behold, like moons of light Boubon biscuits, french sponge fingers. Other worldliness, such a sight! Now take me back to nice school dinners, Waiting down the hall, up the playground steps. Will treacle cake all have gone, Just leaving rice and prunes? Dreadful cold white mash potato scoops Neatly spread apart. My favourite - dark chocolate sponge And jam pink marshmallow **** Join me to sitting round My family kitchen table, ‘Best bit is the skin,’ Dad and me agree. He approves as I eat My little sister’s potato jacket. I’m good and there’s plenty And we’re all feeling full. Every plate eaten clean, completely empty. I remember secretly sneaking Opening tins and picking out pieces Of chocolate from choc chip cookies. By the window, our Kenwood soda stream, It’s bottles like shop bought fizzy pop! And Dad’s homemade wholemeal loaf Unlike any bread from the shop. My Sixth form packed lunch – Two Ryvita sandwiches with a kipling cake, A calorie counting diet Eaten by morning break Whilst writing the stove is forgotten And now the smell of overcooked stew - Burnt pan supper – a frequent memory. I think I can save it, definitely cooked through. Arriving at the end of mealtime lane, A message to hang in the kitchen high above Something I’ve learnt to remember, That the food in our lives must be all about love.
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I was sitting by a pond one day, Through sun motes came the glitter way, A tiny fairy appeared, "What's the matter, my dear? I'll grant a wish, then disappear.." What to wish for indeed, A silly book to read? Or, I know, my cheeks a'glow, An endless choccy biscuits pack, Even if get hideously fat, So, I asked her, that's that..... Now I sit by my sunlit pond today, Munching choc biscuits for ever and a day, A *** of tea, biscuits neverending, By my pond, bliss unending......
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Dec 22, 2016
Dec 22, 2016 at 4:08 PM UTC
CHOCCY BISCUITS FOR ME....
Like cold steel on the tongue, Inducing mind numbing headaches when taken in excess. But I am tempted by the allure of the numerous colours and aromas. They call to me like sirens on a distant shoreline and I cannot resist. Once tried, I surrender myself To a taste sensation. Like a lightning bolt surging through my body And pinning me to the ground. All my senses are aroused. I have become one with the universe, I see everything, I feel everything. The contrast between the bone chilling and the soft melt in your mouth  take me on a journey. I am hurtling through the cosmos at light speed, I witness the dawn of time, The birth of planets and the death of a billion stars. I voyaged beyond infinity and discovered the meaning of life. But this journey has not yet reached its end. For I know there is still more to see. So I give myself willingly. A slave to this icy temptress that is Mint choc chip, or Raspberry ripple, or Vanilla, or any of the other numerous flavours. PS. Cone is compulsory
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Nov 24, 2016
Nov 24, 2016 at 10:27 AM UTC
I Scream
Ingrid stares at the sea the wild waves the seagulls we've come down on the coach from London organised by the church of gospel worshippers what are those? she asks me they're seagulls do they bite? I don't know want ice cream? her brown eyes gaze at me no money she tells me I’ve got some I tell her is there lunch? she asks me I think so there's money from the church for us kids from poor homes I tell her her brown hair is pinned back by steel grips she smiles wide her rather mild buckteeth beam at me fish and chips? she asks me I guess so can I be your girl friend for the day? want ice cream? O yes please she utters I go get 2 ice creams from a van parked near by what you want? the guy asks 2 ice creams with choc flakes I watch him fill 2 cones with ice cream then plonk in 2 choc flakes I walk back to Ingrid here you are I tell her she takes one and we walk on the beach in the sand 8 year olds hand in hand.
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Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 2014 at 3:43 PM UTC
INGRID AT THE SEASIDE.
River run swiftly against the crooked sky race the gulls with all thy might. Bring me there-- I pray thee -- run! Bring me quickly to her door before sun rises overhead. With chocolates wrap'd in gold bracelets of amethyst-- songs from memory-- let her remember. Before the world stops spinning let me see-- the smile of noon day and the chime of laughter. That steady gaze-- so constant, so sure... her fingers brush the canvas-- Apple Red for Lotus Girl... Mistress to the canvas-- stain out your heart. I'll study the shameless paint as your choc'lates sit on the table.
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Jul 4, 2010
Jul 4, 2010 at 10:22 AM UTC
Traveler
well, because bunnies don't come out eggs, do they now? that bunny is a thief! where did you get those eggs from? huh? he's running, a flock of angry birds flying after him; and i forgot my slingshot to smash those three piggies into smithereens (like in the folklore story: house of glass (hay), house of wood, house of stone). i never understood the tradition of easter, until now, i get all the sweets and treats and opulence at christmas... but the way easter is celebrated is quiet fascinating, chocolate eggs of a castrato, and the easter bunny must reflect the size of irish families and strict laws prohibiting contraception, listening to bbc 4 and this actress spoke of being 7th in the lineage of 11... eager bunnies all around and sweet choc testicles of a castrato... well, so i decided to celebrate it too... fasting... and walking around saying the word: barabbas... barabbas... it goes really well with all those gothic cathedrals adorned with gargoyles.
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Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 3:19 PM UTC
chocolate eggs of a castrato
We moved out west to Hollywood And quickly settled down Amongst the rich and famous in The heart of Tinsel Town I joined the local Lion’s Club My wife, the PTA The kiddos were ecstatic when Invited out to play They called for pick up early and We asked them on the go Just how it went with their new friends In Nine 0 Two One 0 They answered back in unison It wasn’t fun and games These California movie stars Give kids the strangest names The Nanny said that we should play With Coco on the lawn So we made some in the kitchen High-fived...and said, ‘Game on’ Were we to know that ‘Coco’ meant A girl and not a drink Oh, pardon our absurdity And poured ours down the sink About that time the Nanny said That Apple was out back So we patted on our tummies Oh, fi-na-lly...a snack Were we to know that ‘Apple’ was A friend of Choc’late Moo Of the sev’ral major food groups We’d shared play time with two About that time the Nanny said That Blanket’s on the deck We weren’t the least bit cold at all But, wrapped up for a sec Were we to know that ‘Blanket’ was A boy and not a spread The blankets back where we came from Were folded on our bed About that time the Nanny said Tu Morrow’s on her way And wanted us to stay until Tu Morrow came--to play We didn’t know ‘Tu Morrow’ meant Not staying for a snooze So we begged off playing longer We were getting too confused!
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Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 3:58 PM UTC
What's In A Name?