Poetry Challenge #157-Cinnamon Raisin Kind of Day
Cinnamon Raisin Bread… Cinnamon Raisin Bread… Cinnamon Raisin Bread…
Can’t you imagine the smell? Cinnamon, sweet with sugar. Yeasty smell of freshly baked bread. Tangy saucy raisins daring to be plucked… Stomach growling?
With it’s swirly cinnamon sugar yummy-ness, who (aside from my friend, Liz) would/could say “no” to a freshly baked slice? Statistically speaking, not many:
“In bakeries across the country, we request cinnamon raisin bread more often than many others.”—I got that on the best authority; the 2020 National Day Calendar.
Poetry Challenge #157
Cinnamon Raisin Kind of Day
In honor of National Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day (celebrated every September 16th—for what reason no one knows) write a poem about the smell, taste, anticipation of something you remember in the oven.
Pay attention to the images in your poem that will help the reader picture the time, place, people, and food.
Now: Try breaking your poem between every 2 lines. Play with the last words on the lines like the poet in the following example:
“The Last Swim of Summer
by Faith Shearin
Our pool is still blue but a few leaves
have fallen, floating on the surface
of summer. The other swimmers
went home last week, tossed
their faded bathing suits aside,
so my daughter and I are alone
in the water which has grown colder
like a man’s hand at the end of
a romance. The lifeguard is under
her umbrella but her bags are packed
for college. We are swimming against
change, remembering the endless
shores of June: the light like lemonade,
fireflies inside our cupped hands,
watermelon night. We are swimming
towards the darkness of what
is next, walking away from the sounds
of laughter and splashing, towels
wrapped around the dampness of our loss.”
Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes
Start Writing
Don’t Think Too Much About it; Just do it!
As a reward, treat yourself to a loaf. BTW: Cinnamon Raisin Bread is, oddly fun to watch so here’s a video from allrecipes.com.
Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than SIXTEEN HUNDRED days ago! (without a miss!!!) We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments. And scroll down for my happy news:
