TRIP TO ELTHAM PALACE POEM 28

I love cooking. It is soothing to me to put together a meal. They say that eating together is a bond that is real and that this deep familiarity is something that is significant to both. I believe this and so I put care into it and find that occasions are deepened by this. Cooking can be an art, but it also provides sustenance to all, so that is the significance that I find. So cooking is also love, as well as writing poems - creativity expressing something vital and real.

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“Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.” Truman Capote

Place Card

Upon the card we write,

Our place.

A wish is not enough to secure a future,

It must be planned and then that must be executed.

The home is where the hat is placed,

The home is at the hearth,

The home is where the heart is,

A man’s heart is in the stomach.

So, at the kitchen stove I stand,

Feeding your stomach to reach your heart.

So, we have made a start.

“Live to the point of tears.” Albert Camus