Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

Old Cookbooks

I’m tossing out most of my cookbooks;
Makes sense since I don’t really cook.
The pages are marked
From the times I embarked
On a challenge which I undertook.

Those recipes once brought me pleasure,
But now seem like much more of a pain.
I’ve got quite a good deal
Since my spouse makes each meal
So from kitchen work I can refrain.

Still, from reading the notes I once entered
On those pages all covered with stains,
I can wistfully say
Things are better this way
For at dinner now, no one complains.

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Linda Alice Fowler September 8, 2022 at 12:53 PM Perfect sentiment Ilene! Ad your last line is so cleverly inserted LOL Linda

Caren Krutsinger September 8, 2022 at 2:42 AM I love your end rhymes Ilene. And this fact "Since my spouse makes each meal"

Tom Cunningham September 8, 2022 at 12:27 AM Sometimes it's just easier to eat out or just order a takeaway, no washing up lol. Tom

Hannah Borke September 7, 2022 at 5:51 PM Great one. I have many projects i don’t get to. One of them is sorting through your poems, and making myself an album of hundreds of your poems — to have and share.

Constance La France September 7, 2022 at 3:26 PM Ilene, I read your poem with a smile, great poem, so well penned. I too have many cookbooks, pages with tabs of recipes I want to try but never do. But, I also inherited my mom's and grandma's cookbooks and sometimes I flip through them and they often made notes in the margins and I love to read their handwriting so, no matter how cluttered things get, I will never get rid of those cookbooks, peace and tranquility

Jeff Kyser September 7, 2022 at 3:18 PM When we cleared my mother's apartment, she had two huge boxes with thousands of index cards with recipes either written or clipped from some newspaper or magazine on the card. Probably 40+ years of collecting, clipping, and saving. But when you can google recipes for nearly anything, hard to keep all that! Enjoyed this, Ilene!

Rico Leffanta September 7, 2022 at 10:58 AM Yes, not many people need to know how much kindling is required to bake a pie! We all appreciate your husband cooking so you can write! Aloha!