Sweetmeats Poems

The Ambassador of Ferrara Writes to His Prince About a Cool Party in 1572

...Such throaty timbres – oboes and bassoons –           
such gowns!  My Lady, apricot and plum,
her sleeves ablaze with blue October moons –     
for one short night, her villa had become          ...

Nuts in the Soup

...I wrote these lines 7 years ago, slightly edited today. 
Perhaps they have more meaning now than they did then.

"There are so many nuts in the soup!" 
That's what I hear and see and it's ...

Get Ready

...Forsooth, one must stand proud and get ready my dear
Hold thy breath for combat into that coveted dress
Ladies, unite, squeeze tight - let thy true self appear

'Tis the festive...

Monet's Garden

...On jade stems iris blooms gently swayed
in hues of lavender, dusty pink and mauve
until pollen seekers were lured to the banquet
of sweetmeats. Within velvet petals they feasted.

In Monet's...

Aimlessness-02

...Crystal cliff from the dale of Dhurung, covered with a motherly pad
It was 1986; winter's biting cold hugged the spacious birthing cry
The sweetmeats invited harshly the ominous job suspension lett...

Mid-Summer Night Dream

...Once upon a time in the land of the Hobbits, 
Fili was annoyed.  He wanted excitement.
He was the youngest of the twelve dwarves,
Dressed in a blue cloak and sporting a yellow beard,
He entered i...

Staging the Night

...Alabaster staircase framing chandeliers
    Picassos, Renoirs, Van Goghs lining the walls
  Marble floors, dazzling in the starlight
    Polished perfection staging the Night

  Dainties, delica...

Second Indian Wedding

...Colors of life, fertility, sanctity fly
Aromas include sweetmeats, coconut, fire
There's flowers galore, honey, spices 
Not for meals only, but especially decoration
Focus now on the bride: Vermi...

A Winters Tale

...The bones of winter cracked the ice black, coal black night.
A hoary wind spits frost crystals that dazzle and blur the sight.
Boney fingers of bare deciduous wood, scratch against the eaves
as th...

Thou Good and Faithful Friend

...THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL FRIEND

Farewell, thou good and faithful oven mitt.
Thou hast served thy time but now must leave.
But ere thou goest, let us reminisce a bit
About the thi...

The Easter Bunny

...The Easter Bunny 
 
Easter Eggs, in the shops galore, 
Buy just one and you’ll want lots more. 
One for Mum and one for Dad 
And all the children, that’s not bad.  
 
 
Easter eggs are just s...

Cupcakes

...Piggery
Diggery
Hungry,
I stuffed
I chewed,
I swallowed 
Lunchtime sweets
Floury treats 
Icing sweetmeats,
Burp
Sturp
Stop
The
Cup
Cakes...

Nuts In the Soup

..."Nuts are in the soup!" 
That's what I've heard: not so absurd
Some add a pinch of spice now and then,
from wit and the sharpened nib of a pen.
Nutty little writers who like to fill
the soup wit...

The Diet

...My wife is on a diet, so am I,
her will prevails in setting what we do;
no more to breakfast on a tasty fry
nor lunch of prime Scotch mince or Irish stew.
She loves her cherry cake, but it’s now ...

Conniving Tongue of a Liar

...Words blended with honey, dripping,
completely gullible, I continued sipping,
drinking in all those little deceptive lies.
and never once questioning the alibis.

Conniving sweetmeats slipped fr...

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