The elemental foods
Four elements portrayed as four foods
Cinnamon burns on
my tongue--fire burning on the
beach after sunset
Mint cools my palate--
the ocean drowning the flame
as the ember dies
Cotton candy melts
slowly into sugar--sweet
air coating my mouth
Chocolate soothes my
soul--earth healing from its wounds
leaving but a scar
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Jolene Poulin
I'm an amateur writer with an interest in fiction and general story telling.
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Snacktime Sonata Challenge Winners
Well, your Snacktime Sonatas made us hungry, and that’s about the highest compliment we have. Food — taste, smell, sensation — is a powerful conduit to the past, to memories pleasurable and painful and sometimes bittersweet, a mixture of comfort and challenge. Congratulations to Penny Fuller for Sativa — it’s a first win for Penny — a hymn to the “secret, unbounded/freedoms” of fresh peas in the pod. The narrative voice of the poem doesn’t really want to be outside, but finds joy in the green things of the earth; this is a lovely work of resilience.
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