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Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

0 posted 2004-11-12 11:35 PM

I’m a plain Jane kinda girl
Words like meat and mashed potatoes
Set upon the table with home baked bread
No Coeur don blue with hidden treasures
And a fancy French name
No enigma under glass
Or exotic fruits set aflame
Just salt and pepper simple
Though I wish I had more spice
‘twould be lovely to be a gourmet
A connoisseur of composition
An author of lyrical ambrosia
A Ventnor of the finest rhyme
But alas – ‘tis not so
As I sit down to my burger and beer
And sometimes . . .
A hearty casserole
Upon a checkered table cloth
For Joe and Jane and Jack
But for once,
Just for once--
I’d love to set forth fine dining
Upon linen cloth
That set mouths to watering
And minds to wondering
It looks just beautiful –
But what the heck is it?

s.a.t.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2004-11-12 11:45 PM

Yes, know well of this...so often I see
a write that makes me think...I wish I could
write like that...and too often when I
attempt...it just doesn't look right...and
I go back to hamburgers and beer...

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

2 posted 2004-11-12 11:49 PM

I could go for a lady like you...
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even the fancy places have gum on the bottom
of the table..did a survey once..was under one of them tables playing around and some gorilla drug me out..said his wife was blushing..so I did a twenty minute presentation on gum products and the abuse in american society..he even looked under the table to see if I was accurate..

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true story number 268

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

3 posted 2004-11-12 11:53 PM

Ah, Barry - if you are hamburgers and beer - I am in good company - thanks dear Sir-

Dark - you can sit at my table anytime - and the story - crack me up - hugs - you

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

4 posted 2004-11-13 12:05 PM

Yep, I know exactly what you mean.

here's mine...lol
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Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

5 posted 2004-11-13 12:24 PM

Yes Wranx - exactly - perhaps rather than the masters, we are the impressionists and contemporaries - maybe a slavador dali or picasso rather than a rembrant or m. angelo-

Thanks for your reply and hugs to you -

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

6 posted 2004-11-13 08:39 AM

This poem is a poem readers goumet delight..
was delicious....yum!
An old saying is that the way to a mans heart is through his stomach (something like that)

But it is ovious that another way is through the words of a good poem that falls on his eyes...

enjoyed
------ice/ford
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Come read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling
And banish the thoughts of day.
Longfellow

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

7 posted 2004-11-13 08:51 AM

Enjoyed this treasure treat, Susan...
it's fun to enjoy all tables!

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2004-11-13 09:35 AM

enjoyed this

a good read for this early in the morning

Poet deVine

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

9 posted 2004-11-13 10:42 AM

Ah...yes. I feel this way about a lot of things, not just food. Give me simple over complicated! Enjoyed this very much Susan.

Krawdad
Member Elite

since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

10 posted 2004-11-13 10:44 AM

You are making a mouth water here, especially with the home baked bread.
Enjoyed this.

e

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

11 posted 2004-11-13 10:49 AM

enjoyed

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

12 posted 2004-11-13 11:14 AM

Thank you friends, for my morning buffet of kind replies - I am pleased to have tickled your palates- hugs to you all this morning-

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

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