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Breaking Bread

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"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." - Ursula K. Le Guin

"There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi

"I love bread." - Oprah Winfrey

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A Sam Scott poem:
10th April 2025
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The strongest flour The oil, the yeast Combined in love Before the feast Salt From Celtic shores afar With waters warmed The ideal spar For microbes' Fertive final frenzy The rising feeds Much foodstuff envy More patience As to final hours The mixture blooms While hope devours The prospect of Eternal life Once oven baked With heat and strife To crusty beauty Rich and soft The father proud To hold aloft Before Serrated sacrifice To eager lips From buttered knife A gift from God This golden leaven Food for the soul A slice of heaven

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 4/23/2025 8:57:00 PM

So good…the bread and poem!

Sam Scott
Date: 4/24/2025 12:06:00 AM

Thank you my dear Kim. I do love making bread it feels spiritual. May you find such joy too. Love what you do. Blessings S:) x

Ink Empress

Date: 4/12/2025 12:01:00 AM

Dear sam, what a unique poem, one that is so well written and presented! So good to see you post a poem today and your words flow with brilliant rhymes in such a seamless manner! I love the quotes youv used too there on top! So thought provoking and so deep! Pleasure reading your poem Sending you light always

Sam Scott
Date: 4/12/2025 11:23:00 AM

Always wonderful to have you pass by dear Ink x Thank you as always for you encouragement.. I was making bread, for the first time really, and it is so magical, cathartic, spiritual.. I couldn't contain my words! Bless you for your kindness S:) x

Tom Woody

Date: 4/10/2025 6:21:00 AM

I agree with Oprah, I love (good) bread. Like you say, a gift from a benevolent Creator

Sam Scott
Date: 4/10/2025 8:04:00 AM

Couldn't agree more Tom. Thanks for stopping by! Blessings S:) x