The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Category: Sweets

  • #fowc #indulge The stall it caught you unawares and for a while all you did was stare at the sweet and flavourful things on display you bought a bag, and made your way your favourite things held in a bag like some sweet toothed burglars swag coconut, cherry, vanilla and cream all sat in a…

  • Crafted from wisps of warm sugar out of the machine it forms taking the shape of a cloud the cloud rises on the warm air on some occasion, it has to be caught in the nick of time, before it floats off on its own Could there be a treat sweeter than this as the…

  • #FOWC #Double a sweet tasting response from inky to fandango’s latest one word challenge Not your normal after dinner treat it’s got two of everything, vanilla scoops, chocolate scoops, brownies, the lot covered in drizzles of sweet chocolate syrup even the wafer’s got a dash of cocoa running through it pudding – a nice light…

  • Millionare’s Shortbread

    4th May 2019 funny what I can come up with, when I’m peckish Sandwiched together hot off the confectioners table oblong biscuits of loveliness rippled with caramel and chocolate taken usually with a nice cup of tea crafted by an artisan and served up as part of an afternoon lunch keeping watch, children with a…

  • #Christmas #Hidden #Sweets 7th January 2019 I received an extra present yesterday. I’d been wandering what dad was going on about when he mentioned an extra present at the end of Christmas time I’d enjoyed seeing the brightly coloured baubles on the Christmas tree, especially the new larger ones. They were twinkly inside. I just…

  • Bag O’Sweets

    #food #sweets #confectionary Open up your bag and round a quarter of sweets for half a pound a drumstick lolly that’s hard to beat lemon drops for a special treat chocolate footballs and fizzy drops the magic candy that fizzes and pops cola bottles and sherbet tubes candied shrimps and pineapple cubes Now , don’t…

  • ferried by box or by bag Usually on birthdays Delightful cubes of butter sugar and cream Get sent to the house Easily a delightful treat Fairs at Christmas time usually have stalls selling this delicious treat, and it’s not just cubes great shapes are made using cutters expect strawberry hearts, mint chocolate rounds and raspberry…

  • Salford, 4th January 2018 Treat   That Tin box in the Christmas bag hides something Really sweet and tasty Everyone knows its something special As you don’t have it to excess Thing is – you can have some every day – after you’ve eaten your dinner

  • Banana Split

    Flavorful Served up in a glass bowl Wonderful fruit combines with frosty ice cream Everyone smiling as the bananas are Enveloped by the Ice cold tastes of strawberry and chocolate and cream Together – as they melt and mingle – they make a heavenly delight

  • Cotton candy clouds

    as the sun says peek a boo over multi coloured high rises for an hour or two Skies turn into confectioners delights as cotton candy clouds turn from white to blue with occasional shades of pink or yellow   Another cloud poem Marshmallows