Unsweetened Poems | Examples

The Joy of Parenting

    I bought myself four yogurts
      by morn they were all eaten

    Bought my kids four more
       ~ unsweetened

Then there is that star and the cradle

The search

Names all experience:

Discomfort searching for comfort

Poverty searching for more

Death searching for life

Unsweetened searching for sweetening

The not-yet searching for already

And on and on..

Then there is that star and

The cradle...

Paradise Is Falling

the lawns are strewn in paradise
roses stained, unsweetened
beauty is bleeding
can we lick these festering sores?

my days are alchemy
as I exhaust to turn a gold
and paradise is falling

Grandma Decorates the Porch

Melody looked lovely sitting on her kick back porch swing this morn
I knew inside was her gorgeous son, a little baby newborn
How had she had time to decorate this gorgeous autumn porch?
She introduced me to her mother, a lady named Mrs. Morch.

Lovely Mrs. Morch had baked scones, and she invited me.
To partake in a snack, along with unsweetened peach tea.
Your porch is terrific, I told the young mother, who nodded her head.
Mom did it while the baby and I were snoring away, she said.

The Problem With Polaroids

Memories of my childhood
are Polaroids of nostalgic cards
instant colored snapshots of my every action
from the day of my birth to the day I took my first steps
from the day I first started school to the day I learnt to ride a bike
I believed my childhood days would always be unfathomable
the most colossal deception about life living
that’s the problem I have with Polaroids 

Birthday number eighteen
was the most unfavorable day of my puerile life
the once flashy, picturesque Polaroids of my childhood
slowly vanished into the dark and foggy stockade of heartbreak
before my very black eyes, while drizzling
unsweetened tears of a cheerless adulthood
that’s the problem I have with Polaroids

Missing

As he was walking down the street 
One foot fell off,
An embarrassing incident 
He manage to cover with a cough.
Just twenty yards further on
To his despair 
He discovered that 
He wasn’t even there. 
Time, he thought, to 
End his roam
So he turned about and
Walked back home 
There he realised, 
With a wince,,
He wasn’t in. 
Nobody’s seen him since. 
There’s just a space
Where he used to be 
And cup of cold 
Unsweetened tea
And the impression 
Of one foot
In a pile 
Of fallen soot.
So ends
This sad sad tale of sorrow
Gone today 
And still gone tomorrow.
Just occasionally  someone
May almost meet
A one footed man
Not quite there on the street.
It was just an impression 
He very nearly made
Before he disappeared back
Into the hazy shade.

Together Alone

While the sun sets for you 
it rises for me, you are halfway
around the world, our differences
nights and days apart –  
                  
                      while I dreamed of
settling you dreamed of travel – 

when you saw blue skies
I was tamped beneath the
overcast below – 
            
                       "timing is everything"
in life, I have often heard...
and as the clock ticks
further down, I have begun to 
wonder if even eternity will bring 
any of us really closer together...?

Oh!~ I know, for I have also studied
The Scriptures, and our need for faith...

but I have also tasted the tea
unsweetened, and read the residue – 

staining my heart with vivid images 
of sustained separation 

Though alone is never alone
when with God, I am reminded

but even Christ clung to His beloved 
human company...

To Be Loved

1 cup of bananas smashed
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 tablespoon of spiced rum
3/4 cups of goat cheese ( softened)
1 cup of creamed cheese
5 tablespoons of coconut( shredded unsweetened)
1/4 cup of toasted slivered almonds
1/2 cup of shredded white chocolate
1 teaspoon of lemon juice
4 tablespoons of honey
3 tablespoons of butter ( melted)
1 teaspoon of cinnamon

Mix set aside add heavy cream if not
Right consistency.
Cut puff pastry into rounds
Bake golden brown
Cool. Set aside
Your recipe for a vanilla based pastry cream

Store bought strawberry glaze

Slice 1 cup of fresh strawberries
Slice 1 cup of fresh pineberries
Five kiwi fruit peeled sliced and halfed

Assemble
Puffed pasty, pastry cream, nut and cheese mixture
Top with fruits, add whipped cream if desired.
Sprinkle chopped chocolate chips and enjoy!

Tea Ceremony

She served him tea in a china cup
Watched his first tentative sips
Smiled at his appreciation 
Ran a tongue over full red lips
He watched her move around the room
Skirt swinging with enticing grace
Knew he was enraptured
Felt his pulses race
She danced a dance of allure for him
Clothes dropping to the floor
Left the room fully naked
Not fully closing the door

She served him tea in a china cup
Strong unsweetened with no milk
Slid herself onto his knee
A move of rustling silk

She served him tea in a china cup
Thin porcelain enhancing the taste
Held the cup to his waiting lips
Felt his arm slip around her waist
They drank that tea together#
A special type of sharing
Nose buried in her hair breathing
The perfume she was wearing
And she slid slowly from his knee
Leaving him wanting more
As they kissed one last time
And she closed and locked her door

Whurtez Deux Plinn

Follow the best crepe recipe
Make crepes and set aside
In a bowl soften dark chocolate
Butter 
1 /2  cups butter
1/4   cup of sugar
3/4  cups of dark or white chocolate
2 egg yolks
1/4 heavy cream
2 tablespoons of vanilla
5 of best almond liquer
Add
2/3 cup shredded coconut
1/4  cup of toasted hazelnuts ( chopped fine)
3/4 dehydrated banana
1/2 cup of chopped carmel bits
1/4 cup of dehydrated strawberries

Mix with chocolate allow to stand at
room temperature.
Than mix with 1 1/2 cups of
Unsweetened heavy cream
Reserve 1-2 cups for garnish
Stuff crepes in desired fashion
Chill.....
Garnish with
Fresh strawberries
Raspberrys
Mint leaves
And sweetened whipped cream
And raspberry sauce

Serve with orange liguered coffee
Or bottle of champagne!


Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Enjoy!

Tainted Depths

Sour ground ... 
burial lots, where the worms defile
Tear moistened dirt
hardened by fretting hearts,
fearful of the pulse pendulum clock

Time moves mournfully on a crooked drop,
six-feet motion of tainted tick-tock
The skeleton key
can’t open casket thoughts 
bound by 
an unrepentant lock

Half-life decay of terminal haste
has an unsweetened
paper taste — 
Rectangular sawdust placed in toxic space,
as gravedigger eyes spark
an undertaker gaze
A mushroom cloudy view into
the catacomb maze

Everyone must darkly go 
on this nether journey;
tho’ some will choose to make
an urn-stipulated,
vain crematorium flee

Letting their ashes of demise
boast a false victory


4-24-21

Unsweetened Iced Tea

I reminisce, I miss

i was ecstatic when
you told me you liked me
our story started off
as we sipped unsweetened iced tea 

it worked for a while
and things were great!
till the truth came out 
gave you a clean slate 

a couple more 
unsweetened iced teas later
it became clear to me
this wasn’t in our favor 

maybe it was right person wrong time 
love in all its glory 
but it wasn’t meant to be 
and that’s the moral of the story 

now as i drink my 
unsweetened iced tea 
my head replays each moment we shared
as we live happily ever after
in my memory

Unsweetened Iced Tea

I reminisce, I miss

i was ecstatic when
you told me you liked me
our story started off
as we sipped unsweetened iced tea 

it worked for a while
and things were great!
till the truth came out 
gave you a clean slate 

a couple more 
unsweetened iced teas later
it became clear to me
this wasn’t in our favor 

maybe it was right person wrong time 
love in all its glory 
but it wasn’t meant to be 
and that’s the moral of the story 

now as i drink my 
unsweetened iced tea 
my head replays each moment we shared
as we live happily ever after
in my memory

Unsweetened Sugarbush

mother's arms open

      maple-keys unlocking shoots~

               not a single bird





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A Sense of Holidays

A sense of holidays! 

Blueberry pie hot out of the oven with buttery toppings 
popcorn popping in the pot with oil on the stove 
Lemon and lime are the sour balls used for drinks or garnish 
Take that hot pan out of the oven with your glove.  

Coffee is served with a biscotti, black coffee, strong, steamy 
Fresh coffee beans ground and gurgling through the percolator 
Unsweetened coffee, hot, burns your lips, bitter to the tongue 
Cold ice in the freezer and the glass shelf in the refrigerator.  

Uncle Joe’s gas problem and Aunt Emma’s feet 
As Grandfather breathes and snores through his nose.  
The last crumbs of cinnamon, the last glob of whipped cream 
Take Grandma’s hand when you walk out, she hates to impose.

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