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Nostalgia Bytes

Photo of old school
pops up in Facebook newsfeed
the kind I can feel

yellow sky, edged brown
as golden sugar cookie
when you know it's done

the bright almond sun
on chocolate branches, drizzled
melting in middle

with French vanilla
snowdrifts, scoopable snowballs
and white mountain tufts

such sweet aftertaste
although dropped before finished
partially eaten

it feels warm, and cold
I taste happiness, sadness
because now... it's gone




1/31/2021

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Andrew John

Date: 9/28/2024 3:04:00 AM

Some bytes and some bites, and lots of ooozy delicious-sounding stuff. It's good to talk of tasting happiness. (Unfortunately, many of us have to taste sadness, too, and can't always spit it out.)

Michelle Smith
Date: 9/29/2024 10:38:00 AM

Thanks 4 reading my poem and sharing your reflection, Andrew John. :) Re-reading my poem just now, I wonder if I could find the online picture that inspired me to write this in the first place? I can post pix now that I’m a lifetime member. :D