The Meaning of Food

All three of today's poems are in the poetic form Cavatina, and all three deal with the symbology of herbs, flowers and food.  Magpie Tales provided a delectable picture of fresh garlic. Carry On Tuesday gave the word prompt of "And that is how I remember them," and Cloaked Monk's March Challenge (in honor of Mardi Gras) posted the word prompt of 'abundance.'

Simmering

"Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do." - William Shatner

"The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps." - Jim Harrison

Come into the kitchen – guess what’s cooking?

Ahhh!  Take a sniff.

Garlic, tomatoes, a bit of red wine –

ahhhh!  Get a whiff.

Good sauce, like a good love story takes time...

you know.  As if.

Just a pinch of that and a dash of this,

and while you’re waiting, come give me a kiss.

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Image courtesy of AnushaHerbalist

A Crown for the Past

"There's rosemary; that's for remembrance. Pray, love, remember." ~Shakespeare, Hamlet

Whenever I happen to think of past

times that we’ve shared

it’s usually because I smelled something

and it gets paired

to an event - but there were so many.

Emotions bared

like rosemary placed in a diadem

because that is how I remember them.

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Artist unknown

Symbology in Nature

“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” ~Epicurus

Abundance is full of symbology:

Walnuts, corn, wheat

and pomegranates all mean a kind of

gift that’s replete

with bounty, though not necessarily

wealth.  Life is sweet

when one considers what Nature offers:

there is much abundance in her coffers.

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