The Friday Fling Faces Fall With Comfort Food!
Friday Fling #151 October 21st 2011
As the weather gets cooler and the landscape looks bleaker, joys which remain available become more important. This is when things like comfort food become more valuable.
What is comfort food? You know. Anything that gives you something special! This week we’re challengeing you to creatively express yours, and what they do for you.
As a further challenge, we suggest you try writing your comfort food ode in a format known as a Rictameter. This format requires nine lines of escalating and then decreasing numbers of syllables thus: 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2. One additional requirement is that the first and last lines should be the same word!
Here’s an example Michelle and I collaborated on a few days ago for this challenge:
Gravy,
Mashed potatoes
Beside a turkey leg.
Some dressing on the other side.
Thanksgiving dinner known for comfort food.
Satisfies me and warms me up
On a cold holiday.
Seconds on the
Gravy!
Copyright October 16th 2011 RGD & MRK
This week the Friday Fling celebrates comfort food in Rictameter!
Be sure to save time to read and comment comfortingly on your fellow Pals’ poetic preferences. Then go find some of your very own favorite comfort food this weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for October 21st
Congratulations Glenn!
Welcome everyone to the Friday Fling! I hope you brought at least your imaginative appetite, because we’re pigging out on poetry on comfort food this week! If your appaetite for a challenge is also sharp, you might try writing a Rictameter and see how high your favorite comfort food scores! Let the Fall feeding frenzy begin!
I actually wrote a new posm ~ that is the advantage of having the post to review early! But my muse is still MIA *sigh*
I love the comfort food collection ~ all good stuff there *smiling*
Here are a few by my good friend “Sonnet Diva” (Lori)… thank you Lori for supporting the Friday Fling with your delicious and comforting Rictometers.
Pancakes
Maple syrup
With butter dripping down
I am digging in with gusto
Sunday morning breakfasts that I eat
Savoring each delicious bite
Stacks of them on my plate
I can not wait
Pancakes
Sonnet Diva Pancake Rictameter
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Hot dogs
Smothered mustard
Raw onions on the side
On top chili riding shotgun
Coney Island dog makes my mouth water
A specialty of the East Coast
The hot dog bun is stuffed
Just delicious
Hot Dogs
Sonnet Diva
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Ice Cream
Comforting me
Such richness in my mouth
Delicious Rocky Road for me
It’s satisfying a delicious high
Chucks of chocolate with marshmallows
Filling a need inside
My spoon in hand
Ice cream
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Wonderful writes…kudos with thumbs up left for all! :love:
Here is a little something…these are berries that everyone should eat! 🙂
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My try at this Rictameter !!!!!!
Sweet sweet
All I Can eat
Chocolate buggy and fries
Greasy greasy all over my face
Eat eat till my tummy aces then for some desert
Strawberries juicy juicy are the best eat
All covered in chocolate
Yummy to tummy
Sweet sweet
Bettie Davis ————————– (C) October 2o , 2o11
Sorry ~ I’ve been dealing with a pet issue *sigh* I’ll try to return tomorrow ~ I have a feeling I’ll be elbow deep trying to bathe my critters :love: :love: :love:
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Stinky
cheese tasty
So is; creamy twinky
Peanutbutter brownie is too
Beer and pretzles, but,must be imported
oh! and some honey dip donuts
and ding dongs and ho-ho’s
cantalope is
Stinky
😛
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Triple Rictameter
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Cold air
lingers with your
bad cooking on the wall
your glow has faded and I see
the agony you kept inside your smile.
I never knew pain until you
vanished from the future
leaving behind
the past.
Coated
like layers of
Orange frosting coat me
when stuck inside a dry cupboard.
You were the humidity of the night
I lay with peanut brittle sheets
comfort gone along with the
essence in life–
my heart.
Frozen
over like a
spoon in a bad icecream.
How do I heat what has died?
Life needs warmth and you are so cold.
There is no way to cure this hurt
or fix this pain from my
orange frosted
heartbreak.
😛
➡ COFFEE IN BED:arrow:
She brings
cups of coffee
a constant stream of it.
elixir of life washes my soul
bringing to life an innocent pleasure.
Shades of cream caress the coffee
A soft gleam of bright hope.
Cradling love,
She brings
:entertained:
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Kitchen
Chatter, the kind
you love, dead-center is
the dining room table, and the chairs
its usual fruit bowl. I wake with the scent
of bacon, eggs, and coffee. Keep
in mind – things you might find
in some dreamer’s
kitchen.
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I’ve gained ten pounds just reading all these appetizing entries! I’ll have to go for something less fattening … ❗ 😀 ❗
It’s breakfast time here in Southern California. Now I’m really getting hungry. Awesome blog and challenge and pieces posted! Happy Friday!!
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Foxy Fox says “Peanut Butter M&Ms-“and so do I.