![]() ![]() ![]() Note from Ed: I used the name “Ghazal of Chocolate” for the poem because this Middle Eastern verse form is, as I understand it, pronounced much like the English verb “guzzle.” And I like to guzzle chocolate. From The Poet’s Cookbook: Recipes from Germany, edited by Grace Cavalieri and Sabine Pascarelli (Forest Woods Media Productions, Inc., 2010). I want to be a chocolate insurance underwriter. I want the world’s biggest chocolate bar none. I want SomeMores - hold the crackers and marshmallow. I want the economy back on the chocolate standard. I want to be the pool for a chocolate fountain. I want to look down on chocolate from the diving platform. I want the Olympic-sized chocolate swimming pool. I want chocolate mousse as big as Alaskan moose. ![]() I want free-standing chocolate-filled - hold the whatever. I want to try the chocolate case - not hear it. I want a café mocha - hold the coffee and frothed milk. I want chocolate-covered bananas - hold the bananas. I want chocolate so dark it can’t find my waistline. I want chocolate on a grand scale that won’t weigh me. I want chocolate-covered strawberries - hold the berries. I want a chocolate torte cake made with no flour. ♥ “Strawberry Drizzled in Chocolate by Rayan Miah From Joys of the Table: An Anthology of Culinary Verse, edited by Sally Zakariya (Richer Resources Publications, 2015). Gary Hanna offers a bit of sweet seduction, Ed Zahniser rhapsodizes about his intense love for chocolate, while Rita Dove speaks the plain truth: when it comes to chocolate, it’s hopeless to resist. Today we’re serving up three delectable chocolate poems for your Valentine’s Day pleasure. I like having a little cacao in my corner, whispering, “You can do it!” □ Chocolate gets my creative juices flowing, makes me fall in love with books, words, reading and writing all over again. Whatever your pleasure - brownies, fudge, ganache, chip, bonbon, bark or bar - chocolate is the language of love. Is it all those mood altering chemicals creating an instant high (the same feeling we get when we fall in love)? Or maybe that pure, eyes-roll-back-in-the-head pleasure when a piece of velvety smooth chocolate brazenly yields to our body heat and melts in our mouths, ever-so-slowly releasing its deep, rich flavor? Yes, and Yes. Just for you: Grandma Rosie’s Chocolate CakeĪccording to my highly scientific research of the last 8 years, most writers claim chocolate inspires their best work. ![]()
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