I found a wonderful poem for the season by Valerie Worth in Christmas Poems selected by Myra Cohn Livingston. I love Worth’s poems as she always selects common everyday things to write about.
Candy Cane
Hot wintry
mint, striped
round with
fire and snow.
Sweet icicle
that melts
and burns
and chills,
And fills
the mouth with
fumes of frost
and flame,
Crackling cold
on the tongue
like the word
Christmas.
Poetry Friday is at Jama’s Alphabet Soup.
Happy Reading.
MsMac
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Delicious poem, Jone. Especially like “Crackling cold on the tongue like the word Christmas.” Happy Holidays to you!
What a wonderful food poem. I love “fumes of frost and flame.”
Excellent! This would make great text art — you could shape the words into a candy cane.
she captures the experience of the candy cane even better than actually eating one.
This is just lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Ooh I love that one! Your header is pretty cool too!
Cool. I love the idea of writing about seemingly uninspiring objects. She did a bang up job. I like the poem far more than I like candy canes themselves!
“striped
round with
fire and snow.”
Love that!!
Jone,
I love Valerie Worth’s poetry. Worth was a master wordsmith–and a real genius with imagery.
Love this! I adore how intense she makes this experience!
fumes of frost
and flame,
Wow.