Sat on the serving tray
Each little bit of you oozes festive smells,
Allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg
Salsa away with seasonal fruits, mingling
Over a drop of festive tipple
Note how the alcohol burns away in a wonderful display
And leaves a fruity taste to accompany the
Lovely sultanas, currants, candied peel and cherries
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 eat them all now, they’re a treat, we agree but eat them all and you wont eat the fish and chips for your tea!
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
