Too Hot To Handle
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For contest: About a Pot Holder, Sponsored by Craig Cornish.
It was a challenge to write a poem about a POT HOLDER...so I owe my thanks to Craig Cornish. I decidied I would write it from the perspective of the pot holder telling the story...Hence...another Personification to add to my list of many.
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You look at me... with disgust in your eyes
At all of the flaws.. I can no longer hide
And I know in your heart... you want to throw me away
Forgetting it's you... who has made me this way
Yes! I know I'm no longer...the beauty I was
On the day that we met...and you fell in love
And I have been faithful... for all of these years
Through all of your laughter... and all of your tears
Through fallen Souffle's... and torched Flambe's
Your Chef dreams all strewn... in disarray
It is I who has taken the heat for you
Now really! ...is this what you want to do?
Throw me away... like a dirty old rag
Or hang me again...on that old wooden peg
There in my place...above the kitchen mantle
The Pot Holder who takes...what you can not handle.
Written: May 13th, 2020
Author: Elaine Cecelia George of Canada
Copyright © Elaine George | Year Posted 2020
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