Sonnet: Swallow each Taste and Savor Hard Sweets

how many licks it takes to get to the center of anything

By Rob AngeliPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read

So sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get.

When Once in friendship's fabled advice

And counsel given to partners in crime,

I found recommendation or device

So important as to force into rhyme;

To swallow each taste and savor hard sweets

No matter what center to licks you can bite;

Sweet, take heed, all sweets are hard to get; eats

Only to let it melt slowly despite

All haste and impatience: that's what I'd urge,

Devoid of urgency, slowly and steadily

Winning each race in the press of the surge,

Biting down on its catch only when ready.

A masticated world lives all in paste,

Ruminates silent in puddles of taste.

sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.

-Virgil Aeneid I.462

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