Friday Writings #63: What's Cooking?

 

 

Hello, dear Wordsmiths!

I recently became aware of recipe poems. They can be literal instructions for food preparation, or they can be metaphors, about creating anything else you can think of – but they need to be structured to have some resemblance, however slight, to an actual recipe.

Here's a non-food recipe poem (by a poet I'm very fond of) which is quite famous, as I think it deserves to be:

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace by Lawrence Ferlinghetti One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

So this week’s optional prompt, for those who would like one, is exactly that: to write a recipe (whether literally for an actual meal, or metaphorically for anything else at all).

You might also alter the prompt by writing about following a recipe or making a meal.

 

Image by Conscious Design at Unsplash

 

 And of course you are free to ignore the prompt altogether and share stories or poems on other topics instead.

Guidelines: old or new writing,  poetry or prose, 369 words maximum (excluding title), one post per person, link us to the url of that post in Mister Linky below.

Next week, Magaly will invite us to write poetry or prose inspired by the following Neil Gaiman quote: “Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.”