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Bastet Member
since 2010-05-07
Posts 246 |
CHRISTMAS CAKE Funny that gooey pastry Should stick in my mind For half a century, Thin-layered sponge cake Sugar-walled by raspberry glue Like blood oozing from pinched flesh. We gobbled it greedily, Allowed only one slice each. When it was gone we licked our fingers For the rest of the day. I often wondered how it would taste Eaten with the fresh snow piled in the garden, It’s redness oozing into that anemic frost. How I have longed for the iron energy, Calories of sustainable combustion, On all those limp gray days of later. That sugar-blast imagination Peculiar to childhood - - Raspberry-seeded laughter and The delectable sweetness of lavish loving. CHRISTMAS CAKE [This message has been edited by Balladeer (12-30-2010 09:51 PM).] |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Excellent write, dear Bastet, Christmas cake memories perfectly rendered, (though your comparison to "blood oozing" is a little bit "vampiric" in its effect on me). How could we ever forget our childhood sweeties? You make me long for my very own ... Love, Margherita  |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
bastet...enjoyed this open wound window view...great capture |
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Amaryllis Senior Member
since 2010-05-20
Posts 1306Mi now |
Wonderful writing, Bastet... I enjoy your sensate imagery and your lovely sonics...always spot-on. Sweet reminisce of childhood`s `lavish loving`...and how it may sugar the chilling frosts of today. Superb! Amaryllis |
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easy1 Senior Member
since 2010-05-22
Posts 1209Southeastern USA |
It's good... you double posted, you know... Promises are important. We do get a lot of them in childhood, and some in early adulthood, too, that are important... and not so good when broken, as so many of us have found out. Those who broke them, well, justice will be served, like Christmas cake, only less pleasant, I reckon. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
raspberry-seeded laughter - sugarblast imagination - gooey pastry sticking in one's mind... Amazing imagery you paint with your words, bastet....you provide a feast of nostalgia with this one. (I have edited the double posting) |
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Bastet Member
since 2010-05-07
Posts 246 |
Thanks you so much, all my poet friends, and Happy New Year. Best reagrds to all, Bastet |
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