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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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Breaking Bread

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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