chunks of dirt mingle with the bread.
cinnamon wafting in the wind.
a house of sugary bliss,
a promising deal of sweet paradise.
shoveling savories like a last meal--
bellies rising like dough,
suddenly shoved into a scalding scene.
outsides on fire,
insides igniting--
charred little children,
burnt sugar lingering on their tongues.
Categories:
savories, murder,
Form: Free verse
Picture on the Parlor Wall 9-27-24
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Sampler on the Parlor Wall
Shadows born from dawdling light
Stretch across a firelit room set with porcelain cups,
From tea parties long ago and faraway,
With an invitation to sample sweets and savories
Like the sampler on the parlor wall.
Beneath neat rows of alphabets stories gather,
Verses stitched with silk and dreams
And numbers that taught a woman’s craft –
A child’s wishes fly with birds and lady bugs –
Wishes to convince a suitor at the door of her wifely worth
In tidy stitches foreshadowing an orderly life.
A young lady-girl in pantaloons and blue sashes
Weaves circles of symphonic dots in French wheels
While lazy daisy chains meander on her linen fields -
Magic flares in her zigzag lines, her wishes on wooly stars.
No signature remains from her little hand -
Her hearth, her home, her heart –
Only a legacy of butterflies and roses sampled on a parlor wall
And a tiny scarlet dot of imperfection like a signature remains
Embroidered into a sampler embracing each dawn and dusk.
Categories:
savories, life,
Form: Free verse
The sweet, savories, succulents plastic wrapped, boxed, floating in chemical additives, packed crunchy, munchy surprises, tasty delicatessens of mouthwatering intestinal trash, preserved, conserved in numbers of E, added to sweetened, sweetener of insecticidal feces, sugar hit and flatulence bubbles of soda steams, vacuum sealed and pour on milk pot tarts of ever convenient unwrap and eaten so easily, pre,pre,pre preprepared, sliced and diced instantly, the gourmet food of supermarkets provided mayhem, environmental, environmentally unfriendly, loaded with poisons obituary and sold to you, the sickened repository of daily meal, spent happily at breakfast table and TV dinners washed down with fluoride are the profits made from disease.
WARNING. May cause side effects or even premature death.
Categories:
savories, food,
Form: Free verse
The wafting aroma of cake around
I see around my friends busy
Busy making savories and sweets
Sweets are a few but taste yummy
Yummy is the cake with different flavor
Flavor of cinnamon and cake seed enhance
The visual enhanced by the star of lights
Lights lined up sparkle in the home front...SUNKAN
Categories:
savories, happiness
Form: Free verse