Brian Sambourne Poet Free verse

Obsession

What bridges the stale, hot air of summer?
Icecream 
Soulful pageant of flavors
A cone piled high
              Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry
               or Rocky Road sublime
Control unteethered, de-stabilizing diet
Comfort food soothes stress
                and laps of relentless striving
To lick, lustfully, the sweet drips
               that ooze to our hands 
               heavy with the weight of June
Inside a limitless obsession
               that hammers hunger
               that lifts the talons of heat
               the trappings of cold, telegraphs relief
               an altered state
In the tucked curve of a summer's smile
               stitched to a ruddy, sticky 
               cookie-cream face.





Poem composed: April 1st, 2021
Contest: All Yours (June 7)
Sponsor: Brian Strand

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Regina Mcintosh April 10, 2021 at 7:25 AM I really loved this. Congrats on your top placement and thank you for entering. God bless you, Love, Gina Brian Sambourne April 10, 2021 at 10:20 AM Hi Gina, thanks very much for your uplifting remarks. Quite an interesting topic for the contest. Imaginative and inviting. Best wishes, always, Brian