Hi grasshopper,
A real tasty piece of a poem! Food poems are great! Such celebrations!
Is it possible to only use the word "cake" once?
Bob
>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: Afters
>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:47:22 -0000
>
>( A response to a 'Lust and Lurve' challenge on another list.....)
>
>Afters
>
>Unpeel me slowly, like the fruit
>you placed on a white plate
>ready to accompany the wine
>or the cake, frilly-papered,
>that you eyed while you ate
>your salad and brown bread.
>
>The apricot warms, ripening,
>the cake crumbles in its case,
>sugar crystallising and re-melting.
>Taste me slowly. Let me melt
>into the granules of your tongue
>like icecream on shingle.
>
>Make me zing like lemonade
>after strawberries, like sherbet
>on a rod of liquorice. Make me
>flesh and sponge, sweet
>and sour, savoured, swallowed,
>assimilated. Make me muscle.
>
> grasshopper
>
>
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