Friday, February 10, 2023

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

 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.”

 

3 comments:

  1. Oh, what lovely things people are writing in response to this prompt!

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  2. Good day, Poets & Storytellers!

    It's good to be back. It's like coming home, or to a community hall to meet friends. Just before the Lunar New Year, the pc decided to call quits. Ah, the old drill again. Only this time, I have done a backup of all my files. So all the poems & pictures are safe. Still lots of time used to reinstall all the useful stuff.
    Oh, this is an interesting prompt, a recipe! And inspired by Ferlinghetti, I immediately wrote one. I will try to clean it up and post next week. :)

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    1. Looking forward to it! Good to see you back here, too. Commiserations about the pc, glad you've been able to sort it.

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