Cheesy Fudge

i

On the top shelf of the fridge sits a neatly wrapped greaseproof parcel, carefully enclosed

with the ends tucked in like a precious gift
or an illegal substance.

Every time I open the door to select the milk
it calls me.

I stare and stare. My internal conversation fighting the urge to eat,
fighting the urge to taste just one bite,
of the perfect little blocks of:

ii

White creamy cheesy
sticky sweet squares
that squishes and squashes
in between my finger tips
before bouncing back
to whole cubes of heaven.

And fail.

iii

I bite
leaving a
perfect mould
of my molars.
Buzzing sweetness
fills my mouth.

Sweetly cheesy
Sweetly lovely
Sweetly fudgy
Sweetly naughty
Creamy cheesy fudge.

Dedicated with thanks to JC
By Dix

I've been away

Hi - it feels like ages since I have written on my blog. I have been on holiday and had a nice time and good break - lots of eating and relaxing. But everything is already back to normal - rushing around with no time to spare. Maybe I should be pleased that I have such a busy life but sometimes I just wish I had more time for me and for my creativity.

Anyway I read the Parkinson autobiography whilst I was away - it was both interesting but still told me lots about Mr P, not just his life but his opinions and faults as well - I like this in an autobiography. Anyway I found this wonderful quote that I wanted to share.

Micheal Parkinson asked the poet Auden '..what was the purpose of a poet and he said, ''As a poet one has a political duty, which is to try, by one's example, to protect the purity of the language. Because when words lose their meaning then I'm quite sure physical violence takes over.''

I think he has a point - don't you?

Mog

Breaking News - I have been published

I am so excited that I have had a poem excepted and published in
First Edition Magazine.

My poem Beginning, Middle, End has been published in First Edition Issue 08, October 2009 and is available in Border, WH Smith and other good newsagents from September 10th.

The magazine website is http://www.firsteditionpublishing.co.uk

I must admit that I have waited until I actually saw it in print before letting everyone know as I was convinced it was going to be a big mistake and my work wouldn't really be in the magazine. But it is and I am so pleased, proud, excited etc. It is great to say I have been published and I feel that this will really help me write more, be brave enough to submit work (and be more confident in my poetry which I now love after struggling initially).

For all of you that regularly read my blog (especially you glnroz) and for those of you that pass a comment, I just want to say a big thankyou - those comments help me as a writer so much and give me the confidence to continue.

Hope you get to read my work and thanks again.

Dih

Genesis fruits

Genesis fruits of juicy
5 edged shiny stars surround
Adam’s pip’d temptation
and earthly colours red and green
reign over on our continual existence.

DiH

This is something I have been playing about with for a while but not sure about it - would love some advice (what do you think?)

Bob's Time

Bob said 'Why am I waiting?'
'Because she is late.'
Bob said - to himself really but in a stage whisper
'I think I'll leave.'

Pause

Bob paces.

Pause

Sighs.

Pause

Bob leaves.

DiH


I love writing these little Bob poems - they just come to me and I often have to write them down quickly. I am going to collect them all together and get my daughter to illustrate them - so sorry they may get posted again with pictures. I hope they say a little something about - well all sorts of aspects of the human condition - if only in humorous form.

Bob will be back!

Some quotes on writing

'Any writer is in the position of the old storyteller in the market place who doesn't know who will stop and listen - his only interest really is in getting as many as possible to stay to the end and put a penny in the hat.'
Phillip Pullman

'As a type, authors are famous for the amount of time we waste. We change light bulbs, stare out of the window and congratulate ourselves if we have managed to turn out 800 words in a day.'
Alain de Botton

'That the stories themselves often feature hazard, hardship, cruelty and death is part of their external appeal. They expose us to danger at safe distance, rehearse us in endurance, fidelity and (eventually) reward.'
Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph, on a Radio 4 Programme, In Our Time, on why the Brothers Grimm collected folk stories.

'Writing a proper book takes a lot of time. It is a very lonely trade and, given the amount of time that must be spent on discovering the facts as well as communicating them, it is disproportionately badly paid. It is fantastically satisfying, and not unlike (I imagine) giving birth, when you hold the finished work in your hands for the first time.'
Simon Heffer, The Sunday Telegraph


Thanks to Writers' News September 2009 for the above quotes and to my doctors surgery for the 2 hour wait for giving me the time to read the magazine!! And it is only indigestion...........

Bob's Answer

Bob’s said ‘How are you today?’
‘I’m pissed off.’
Bob said ‘Oh.’

Pause

Bob’s said ‘How are you today.’
‘I’m fed up.’
Bob said ‘Oh.’

Pause

Bob’s said ‘How are you today.’
‘I’m miserable.’
Bob said ‘Oh.’

Pause

Bob’s said ‘How are you today.’
‘I’m tired.’
Bob said ‘Oh.’

Pause

Bob’s said ‘How are you today.’
‘I’m annoyed.'
Bob said ‘Oh.’

Pause

Bob’s said ‘How are you today.’
‘I’m fine – how are you?’
Bob said ‘I’m great – thank you’

Bob walked off.

By DiH