Sunday, January 24, 2010

from cadbury with love

my purple paper and silver foil
untouched.

you will unwrap me

for the sweetness, the
comfort
I offer

my smoothness
irresistible.

january
a tiresome month
vainly boasts of new beginnings

but confident I wait.

I am here.
your constitution
is always to fall,

so why should I fear
resolutions
never kept before?

sar 2010

10 comments:

  1. Hope.

    And with that, there was nothing for it but to add you to my list of favourites on my blog list!

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  2. Hopeful expectation.

    Or maybe seduction

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  3. Temptation - and maybe even contempt (from the chocolate bar - hah!).

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  4. Maybe this one wasn't as easy as I thought.

    Or maybe it was confusing because temptation is more of a state than an emotion.

    That's what I was thinking, anyway. But the chocolate is proud and contemptuous and seductive. And obsession is in there too.

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  5. I thought temptation - but then I thought that was too obvious. That's the problem with poetry. Half the time you don't understand it, and that means the other half of the time you think you don't understand it even when you do!

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  6. Oh! How I miss the sweetness, the comfort...
    I'm Dairy free at the moment while trying to continue feeding our young and my first thought when the doctor told what was required was "Chocolate".
    It's much easier resisting knowing that I can return to my old ways soon.

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  7. Melissa - 'tis but a few months till you can return to your first love! [Soy chocolate is a disgusting thought, isn't it!]

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