. . . this week’s (completely and totally optional) idea, submitted by January, is to write or share a poem about food.
I found the poem below a few years ago, in the food section of our local newspaper:
mango (a found poem)
place (slender) mango
slice exposing
endspare away
(exquisite) remaining
bits of skinslice (perfumed)
flesh make
two rounded shapeswithout peeling
slice (precious)
close to the piton both sides
cutting (abundance)
cubes of mangoexpose flesh
without biting
(sweetness) skinbend (tongues) fruit
backward pushing
up undermake (shining) bow
mango still
attached to skinmix papaya
pineapple (blossoms)
kiwi sugar limeserve (divine) mango
Lovely!! Very sensuous.
Posted by: jzr | 27 July 2006 at 10:55 AM
Ha - I'm assuming you didn't find the parentheticals, though? Or did you? 'Cause if you didn't add those in, then that's one crazy recipe. Cool found poem.
Posted by: twitche | 27 July 2006 at 12:00 PM
There were two articles; one was recipes, and the other was a general article about mangos. I cut and pasted from both pieces, interweaving them.
In general, as best I can remember, the parens were from the article about mangos, and the rest is from the recipes.
Posted by: SB | 27 July 2006 at 12:05 PM
Almost impossible even to think of a mango without sex coming into it.
Posted by: Jim | 27 July 2006 at 12:21 PM
Mouth-watering, literally.
Posted by: Anna | 29 July 2006 at 02:26 AM
Nice! The only thing I love more than mango is a good mango poem!
Posted by: January | 31 July 2006 at 06:52 AM
That's the most enjoyable found poem I've ever read. Like how you seasoned it with asides.
Posted by: Pearl | 31 July 2006 at 01:25 PM
oh now this is deliciously delightful!
love it!
(now i want a mango. yep. i do.)
Posted by: liz elayne | 03 August 2006 at 11:10 PM