Writers’ Pantry #11: Words Can Be Rather Nutritious

Greetings, dear poets and storytellers. I hope you are having the best day you can have. I hope you find a reason (or three) to smile. I hope your smiles are answered in kind. And since March is National Nutrition Month (in the USA), I also hope we all find healthy ways to nourish our guts and spirits.

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” — Virginia Woolf

“You make us cry without hurting us.

I have praised everything that exists,

but to me, onion, you are

more beautiful than a bird

of dazzling feathers”

— Pablo Neruda

“Laughter is brightest, in the place where the food is.” — Irish proverb

Announcements and Reminders:

- if you’ve yet to read Wild Fridays #10: Thought Provokers, I recommend you follow the link and give the feature a go.  Our Rosemary shared “In a Time of Peace”, by Ilya Kaminsky, a poem that left me gasping with knowing, with remembering. I wonder what it would do for you.

- this coming Wednesday, for the 11^th Weekly Scribblings: “Hypophora and all that”, Sanaa invites us “to write using the literary device ‘Hypophora’” (a figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question *follow this link for more*).

The Writers’ Pantry is an open link event. So, let your contribution be poetry or prose, fiction or nonfiction, old or new, short or long(ish)… If you choose to write prose, it should be 369 words or fewer. One entry per participant, please. Let us taste each other’s words (words can be rather nutritious, I’ve been told *cough, cough… cough*). Mr. Linky will stay hungry until next Sunday.

Quinoa Salad in Papaya Bowl, by @akemiyosawa