Recipe Poems

Poetics Aside Prompt:
Today is a Two-for-Tuesday prompt, and they both come from Michael Grove.
Here are Mike’s prompts:

1. Write a letter poem.
2. Write a recipe poem 

Recipe Poems

To ignore the posted speed limit

Then drive faster and faster

Is most assuredly a recipe

For disaster

***

Mix kind words

With a gentle smile

The result;

Sunshine on a dreary mile

***

In time’s grand mixing-bowl

Pours much pleasure and strife

Many parts make a whole

And the whole makes a life

***

Darling, when we set aside our grievances

When we seal our lips

To creature complaints

Allowing finger-tips

To speak instead of words

When we add

Laughter in place of scolding

And indulge love’s having

And its holding

Oh darling,

If we make this our daily desire

Instead of loves ‘duty’

The result will surely be this…

…gently glowing home-fires

Every day beauty

And a lifetime of simple bliss

***

…and one yummy-for–the-tummy recipe

I have discovered in my inventing of eats
A new kind of yummy granola-bar treats
Take 3 cups of oatmeal
Then add what you please
As long as 1 can of sweetened condensed milk
Can bind it with ease
Make sure as you mix
You put lots of love in it
Bake at 350F and you will have treats
In about 15 minutes.


Here are some of my 'add what you please' suggestions;
I always add 1/3-1/2 cup of ground flax seed
1 cup shredded coco-nut
And 2/3 cup toasted wheat germ
(Some prefer adding a few table-spoons of melted butter. I don’t)
My optional yummies are ½ a cup of any of these;
Toasted slivered almonds,
Chopped pecans,
Chopped walnuts,
Chocolate chips or chunks,
Raisins or any other dried fruit such as pineapple,
Chopped apricot or dates, cranberries, currants,
Toasted sesame seeds,
M&m’s (red and green at Christmas)
Or anything else you enjoy

These are ideal for school lunches because they contain no peanut butter
And they are great for kids with wheat allergies if you skip the wheat germ.

Janet~