A Slow Cooked Life

Gold cherry

By forest_for_ever

Fri, 04 Aug 2023
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A Slow Cooked Life

 

My life has been a cautious mixture

A slow cooked recipe of hesitant fun

Many spicy moments just stumbled upon

Daring only to be dull and tasteless

Always walking, never wanting to run

 

Each dwindling ambition smaller than before

Living life sideways seemed the best

Confrontation, challenge the missing ingredients

The same old recipe that always survived the test

Deadened, flavourless, the tedium of repletion

 

Take a risk or two, try things new

Unknown adventures lay ahead

Cook up a storm, defy the norm

Cast caution from life’s cooking pot

Taste new life, it’s the only one I’ve got

 

Certificate U
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In the Late Summer of Life
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Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Another clever IP interpretation - well done!

 

Submitted by Ewan on

 I agree.

You have a typo at line 5 "neve" vice "never".

I wonder if "lay" in your third stanza might be better as "lie". Of course, if you're trying to indicate that - perhaps - the unknown adventures never appeared, that would be fine, but I thought you might be trying to end on an uplifting note.

Excellent poem, in any case.

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Submitted by forest_for_ever on

Typo sorted. That's wjat happens when one writes at 2.a.m !

 

Thanks

 

Submitted by Ewan on

  Well done, this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day, well done.

Please share on social media, all readers.

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Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Congratulations on the Pick of the Day, Graham. Excellent work. I very much like the concepts expressed in the last stanza redolent of the saying 'eat, drink and be merry as tomorrow you may die.'.

Best, Luigi