Cold Water

My latest piece for Allpoetry.com

which I’ve decided to share with you all….enjoy

Fresh from a Lakeland reservoir
turned over by occasional waterfall
a polar bears delight
particularly in winter season

Hitting the receptacle crisply
it creates a bubble or two at the bottom
bringing out the flavour
of the drink it dilutes

Refreshment in Hot days
as well as cold
delivering fruitiness to the taste buds
like an bullet express train

Do you want it colder ?
then leave it in the fridge
or make it frosty instantly
with a couple of ice cubes

Brian’s Banana Loaf

Food, Fruit, Poetry

Another challenge from WordPress’ 365 Writing Prompts

If a restaurant were to name something after you, what
would it be? Describe it.

(Ok….Dailypost, here goes nothing….!!!)

A pure delight

a combination of sweet bananas

flour , butter eggs and chocolate chips

not forgetting the sugar of course

creamed together the main ingredients

and the star of the show folded through

stuck in a buttered greaseproof tin

and sat in a nice warm oven

Towards end of cooking – cook the custard

Take out of oven – cut a very big slice

and cover in the custard

and simply – enjoy.

Skittles

Poetry

20th July 2018

#Sweets #Fruit #Poetry

A Food acrostic – not to be confused with the game you throw a ball at 🙂

Sealed up in the big plastic bag

Kept in your travel case

Is a multitude of flavour – A rainbow of taste

Tastebuds tingle, at the very

Thought of flavours

Like Lemon, strawberry, Lime, Orange and Blackcurrant

Each little sweet, exploding with flavour

Sensational

Core

Fruit, Poetry

Core

Central to most trees fruit

Oranges pears apples or bananas

real safe centres … some soft some hard. Most

Edible, but the centre and their pips are quite woody

Colourful

Acrostic, Fruit, Garden, Nature, Poetry

Colorful

could it be, the first signs of spring

out of all the signs of Mother Nature that

leap out at us,

of all those signs, green leaves appear and

radiant colours join them in the

form of beautiful blossoms … whilst

underneath them ?

luscious fruits

Banana butties 🥪

Acrostic, Food, Growing up, Home, Poetry

Salford, 4th April 2018

built of sterner stuff than your average elevenses

a wonderous mix of fruity goodness

nautically navigated via big boats

and delivered to supermarket shelves and

next, layered tween two slices of buttered bread

an absolute delight, with your afternoon beverage

Blush

Birds, Character, Emotions, Nature, Poetry

Blush

bright as a button

long rows of garden plants

unassumingly hide their colourful wares

somewhere under a mass of green leaves

hopefully though, the shy fruits will be spotted before the birds get them

Branch

Acrostic, Fruit, Outdoors, Poetry

Branch

bold parts of the tree that

reach out towards the warm sunshine

aiming high in the sky, fruits or

nuts usually grow off them. And these

come off the tree when the wood becomes

heavy due to the weight of the fruit

Sweet

Photography, Poetry

Sweet

Salford 14th February 2018

Stored inside this

Wonderful fruit

Each bite holds a wonderful flavour in its juice

Enticing the eater to have some more

The only question to answer….one bite or two?

Transformation II

Christmas, Cooking, Food, Fruit, Places

Transformation

in the kitchen

magic is performed

yellow butter

white sugar

brown flour

some eggs

and mixed fruit

join together in harmony

with the aid of nutmeg, cinnamon and mixed space

popped in the oven

and left to combine

they jump about in the warm

and become solid or baked

forming a most wonderful substance

a cake.

The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Fruit

Cold Water

Brian’s Banana Loaf

Skittles

Core

Colourful

Banana butties 🥪

Blush

Branch

Sweet

Transformation II