My Poetry Soup Recipe

From crispy candied apples, sticky sweets,
Derive the base by which my lines accrue;
For when pure-love reduced by coal depletes,
Then train of thought does simmer heavy rue.
As though embittered soup deducted cream:
Increasing one but makes another lack -
My fossil engine still beholden steam;
Thereby, poetic stew remains on track.
But, if I’m chef then who’s the engineer?
Smart poets pluck the vine whose fruit is loose;
As such, sweet compliments, ex-wife austere,
For all my wounds and her divine caboose -
   Because, while pain and sadness garnish me,
   Her tracks through me conduct my recipe.

1/31/2017
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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U.D Palawon  Avatar
February 13, 2017 at 10:49 AM
Delicious! :)) Congrats.
White Avatar
February 12, 2017 at 4:51 AM
Hey there! Congratulations on your placement :) I love your poetry soup recipe, and you're an important ingredient in it.
Ward Avatar
February 12, 2017 at 4:47 AM
Congratulations on your win - a well composed composition, Phillip. Julia, :)
May Avatar
February 11, 2017 at 9:37 PM
Great sonnet...Congrats on your win
Rodrigues Avatar
February 11, 2017 at 6:49 PM
A sticky sweet soup! Congrats, Phillip!
Andresen Avatar
February 1, 2017 at 4:08 AM
- A great composed soup, Phillip - Luck in the contest - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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