Thursday, May 26, 2011

small stone #4

husband and I trek a mile for ice cream

just for the creamy banana,

crunchy pecans, and chunks of

thumb-sized chocolate.


shoes flipping and flopping over

overgrown grass peppering swirly brown mud-cakes,

skipping over white dots

powdering the steamy asphalt

18 comments:

  1. "Creamy banana, crunchy pecans, and chunks of thumb-sized chocolate"...Yum!

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  2. :) Chunky Monkey to the laymen lol.

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  3. I could go for some thumb-sized chunks of chocolate myself!

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  4. The smallest morsel would be good for me...as long as there's chocolate in it!

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  5. Lovely imagery in this piece.

    Pamela

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  6. Wish you would share chunky monkey with me! Thanks for sharing the lovely images through your poem.
    love
    Butterflies of time
    http://harivarasanam.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/sin/

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  7. If you trek a mile for ice cream, at least you work some of the calories off. LOL.

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  8. I'll take that thumb-sized piece of chocolate please. Wonderful stone!

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  9. A delightful and tasty read. The lengths we would go to to find food satisfaction!

    Eileen

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  10. Mary, it was a mile both ways, before we sat down the eat LOL!

    Thanks Liz and Eileen!

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  11. Chocolate AND ice cream! THAT'S what I'm talkin' about:)

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  12. Rich and visual...the walk to the get the decadent indulgence and your words~

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  13. Very nice the way the imagery mirrored itself in each stanza....chocolate yummy treats....and natures visual treats.

    Nice!

    ~alaurilee

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