CHOCOLATE
Chocolate is good for curing:
The flu
Stomach pains
Headache
Broken bones
Broken hearts
Whatever
All ills related to everything
(other things might be needed to help cure, but chocolate should ALWAYS be regarded as the main source for wellness)
Chocolate cures depression
Bad moments
Brain malfunctions
Insanity
Near insanity
Absolute saneness
Opens up grey cells
Clears the air
Makes frowns turn the other way
Is always a good way to make people smile
The time you eat chocolate is not counted against your life (sorta like fishing, only you don't have to gut anything disgusting)
Chocolate bridges gaps
Explains theories
Sends the soul into ethereal never never lands
Explains the sexes
Chocolate takes you places you never would have gone if there were never any
chocolate to begin with
Chocolate has the distinction of never ever being the cause for war
The Beatles wrote a song "all you need is love", but the original title was "all you need is chocolate", unfortunately that didn't sound quite right, so they
shortened it to "love", and the rest is history
Moral:
When you think of chocolate, just substitute the word love...and all your problems will vanish
When you think of love, just think of chocolate – but the greatest of these is still....
...love
ETCHINGS
Waxing poetically
Singing softly little songs
Gently into my lady's delicate ear
She lays against an oak tree
Legs lazily stretched across the warm green grass
Feeding her chocolates
Letting droplets of wine fall upon her lips
Her eyes are closed as I lead her on a journey...
Wherein she can melt away her thoughts
Take her soul into never never lands
Forgetting the day
And all it's worries
Relax and feel the wind gently touch her face
A wisp of hair stroking a cheek
As her own heart tells the places she will journey
In life, in thought, in peaceful dreaming
Mediate in joy and never recover in happiness
To drift away
Wherever her imagination might lead
Gently, like a warm summer rain
Tell her soulful tales
Recite a Shakespearean sonnet
Let Barrett-Browning make love to her on the wind
"Let me count the ways…"
Speak to my princess of the ethereal lands
But never forget the chocolate
AUTUMN
I see you through autumn leaves
Holding a camera
Taking images only your heart can see
Adventurous spirit to whom I adore
I want to be your friend
Forevermore
In common we have much
Like chocolate
Dark, milk, and Dutch
What my heart craves can not be missed
All I want from this moment on is -
Just you, chocolate, and a kiss
EXPLANATION
Chocolate mystifies
Those who seek explanation
Refreshing to one’s soul
Awakens grey cells
Makes a woman’s heart leap
Men to cry
(this I have not seen, but I know it to be true)
Chocolate can not be
Explained
Rationalized or –
Even tested in a test tube though tried many a time
Chocolate makes you thirsty
For things intangible
Scientifically improvable
Like love
A child’s laugh
How it refreshes like a summer rain
Soothing one’s soul
Makes a heart glad
And causes your mind to remember…
Some things need no explanation at all
TOGETHER
Canadian geese soaring over head
Flying underneath a canopy of blue
Clouds sail between like ships upon an ocean sea
Lioness plays with her cubs
Others join her too
Children on a merry go round
Jumping as one on a trampoline
Ladies sipping tea at a side walk café
Talking about nothing in particular
It is friendship their common motivator
A place called a breakfast club
Where retired men gather
To sing, to eat, to hear a guest speak
Shake hands
To kiss a woman’s cheek
All creatures great and small
Like chocolate
Love, togetherness, and friendship brings together all
CHOCOLATE WITH LOVE
Chocolate with strawberries
Red wine and cheese
A partner to dance
A warm summer breeze
Chocolate with coffee
Bogart and Bacall
Seniors holding hands
New England in the fall
Chocolate with milk
A lady’s diamond ring
Sunset over a meadow
Wild flowers in the spring
Chocolate with love
Dresses laced with glitter
First love’s fondest kiss
Snuggling in winter
GRANDPA’S LAP
She sits
On grandpa’s lap
Unafraid
Chocolate on her face
On her Easter dress
Fearless
Grandpa doesn’t care
How messy his Sunday suit has become
Love
GIRLFRIENDS
She sits in a an over stuffed chair
There is a small round table
Her hands in gesture linger over
The other side of the table is another she
She leans an arm on the arm of
Her own overstuffed chair
Listening to the one who is so animated
Crossed legs
The table has two paper containers
Coffee or tea
Water or some strange brew
They are friends I can tell
For they share some chocolate
THE OLD MAN
The old man
With an old lonely heart
Upon a bench did he sit
Gazed across a porch
This is what he saw
Holding hands
Lover’s Kiss
Children play
He felt something touch him
And turned to look
An old woman
With an old lonely heart
Sat next to him
And offered him some chocolate
And this is what happened
They held hands
And kissed
And played away the day
I REMEMBER NATTER
(dedicated to my youngest)
He's just a little guy
Chestnut hair
Smile from ear to ear
Delight in every new discovery
Watch him
Innocent to everything
But to beauty he knows much
.....I remember you...
When every day was new
And everyone still smiles
When they hear your name
Laughter was invited
In the bosom of your soul
Smiling effortlessly
Hazel eyes which glitter even in the dark
I mis-speak
For wherever you were
Darkness has no chance
I want to see you dance again
And smile
Like today has no end
Chocolate on your face
Makes you all the more delicious
HER LIPS
She stands on a grassy place
An ocean behind her
She wears a purple sweater
Her blond hair swept by the wind
Her lips are parted slightly
In a curious smile
She looks at me
And dares me not to like her
I care nothing but to know
What chocolate tastes like upon those lips
TAPESTRY
Like tapestry and sculpture
An opera or ballet
Designed, created unique all its own
Chocolate is the stuff fine art is made of
Like the length of the universe
Or the way of a lover’s kiss
Time and eternity
Chocolate can not be measured
Like a smile found any place on earth
Laughter, play or touch
Unexpected moments of happiness
Chocolate is universal
Like the wonder of the movement of a mountain stream
Or way of the stars, the planets, their courses to go
Chocolate is its own remarkable self
And can not be placed into a box
SELF TALKING
When you talk to yourself
The only voice you’ll hear
Is that of your own
In those lovely times
When breathing isn’t enough
Find someone who needs chocolate
And you’ll never talk ….
Or…
Possibly…
Walk alone again
A SCIENTIFIC FACT
Once upon a time
A man named Professor Sam
Placed chocolate in a test tube
Wasn’t sure what he’d find
However he was on his way to find out
He inserted milk chocolate into one tube
Bittersweet into another
Semi sweet into one more
Dark chocolate placed in one too
Yes, he tested them with water
With heat and fire
He shaked them
He stirred them
He literally tried to fry them
With assorted chemicals he experimented
Every conceivable condition did he attempt
To find meaning, answers, and most importantly WHY
Chocolate did what it did, and most often does
To so many innumerable others
WELL his wife stood at the top of the stairs
Staring down at her husband’s chemical experimental scientific basement shrine
She sighed
He didn’t look up
Intent on his mission
To solve earth’s most widely kept secret
A mystery indeed never fully explained
This reaction chocolate extracted from mortals all
He stopped, and mused and carried his thoughts to such intellectual extremes
Couldn’t figure it out
His wife sighed and shook her head
She shouted “give it up! Have some chocolate! I’m going to bed.”
He pondered and mused on that one.
And left his chemicals and tubes behind.
Leapt up those chairs, crossed across the house to their bedroom…
She yelled back at him “don’t forget the chocolate!”
He made a side trip to the kitchen
Found what she longed for
And journeyed onward to spend a pleasant night
Moral:
Forget the strain and try not to figure
Just feed your wife chocolate
Else she might pull the trigger
FIELDS OF JOY
Across fertile fields of joy
Through forests and thickets
Over and atop rocky mountains
Snow blanketed and pure
Gliding across lakes and streams
The wind is whispering these words -
“I will love you forever”
As long as the wind blows
And the mountains stand tall above the plains
Lakes and streams still carry water
Will I cherish thee
Come and fill your soul
With the sweetest of love’s song
And the sweetness of your chocolate kiss
He placed chocolate
In a plastic container
Shipped it across the seas to her
When it arrived
She opened and smiled
Chocolate was melted, ruined
But not her love for him
STRAWBERRIES
Chocolate with strawberries
Red wine and cheese
A partner to dance
A warm summer breeze
Chocolate with coffee
Bogart and Bacall
Seniors holding hands
New England in the fall
Chocolate with milk
A lady’s diamond ring
Sunset over a meadow
Wild flowers in the spring
Chocolate with love
Dresses laced with glitter
First love’s fondest kiss
Snuggling in winter
FORTUNE
She was just a little girl
With big hopeful dreams
Doe eyes
And quivering lip
(which she could turn on and off when ever it best suited her)
Long pig tails and dirty nose
Her mother handed her a chocolate bar
She could not believe her good fortune
And all became right with the world
TO BE FREE
Oh, this mortal coil,
That hinders the internal spirit -
….A spirit which remains,
……….In spite of its pains,
Undaunted
……Unafraid
This spirit
…….Trapped
Within that shell which labors
………against the eternal need
……………..to be free.
Love, it be true
………There is comfort only in chocolate
……………..And in you
TOGETHER
Canadian geese soaring over head
Flying underneath a canopy of blue
Clouds sail between like ships upon an ocean sea
Lioness plays with her cubs
Others join her too
Children on a merry go round
Jumping as one on a trampoline
Ladies sipping tea at a side walk café
Talking about nothing in particular
It is friendship their common motivator
A place called a breakfast club
Where retired men gather
To sing, to eat, to hear a guest speak
Shake hands
To kiss a woman’s cheek
All creatures great and small
Like chocolate
Love, togetherness, and friendship brings together all
IMAGE
Silently I write
And another takes an image
Together we immortalize what has already become
Immortalized
Chocolate
Can never be made a redundant subject
There is always a new audience
And always a willing old one…
To be make anew…
By the daily adventures of chocolate
PONDERINGS
Use to be simpler days
When you wore skirts and dress shoes
And didn’t care how muddy they became
Nothing extended much
Beyond the shelter of your front yard
Nor your back
But your dreams extended these earthly boundaries
Set by mom and dad
Your spirit took you places
Far and beyond
And it was so simple a thing
To dream
Simple times of chocolate and things
Which made you smile
Moments they pass…and -
Now that you are grown
Remember the simple moments
Quiet pleasures
And dream again
Chocolate never ages….
And will see you through
REMEMBER
He was angry
Out of work
Sitting on a park bench
Thinking
Always thinking
Trying to remember
The last smile his lips knew
A little girl
(his daughter)
Brought to him a half eaten –
Chocolate bar
She looked at him
Not understanding his grief
Nor his impoverished soul
Her only care –
Dad is sad
And I’ll make him better
He looked up
To see her tear stained eyes
And quivering lip
He smiled
Taking the food we call comfort
Swallowing it into his soul
Reached for her
And this is what he said –
“I love you”
Chocolate makes memory work
When it comes to the matters
Of a child’s heart
RAPTURE
Gently touch me
Let my fingers gingerly take you into my mouth
My lips slowly part
Like a theatre curtain
As it slowly rises
And the audience is anticipating what is about to come
So does my stomach and soul
Anticipate the arrival of you, my dear sweet delight
Eyelids slip down to half
Mouth watering in glee for what it expects
Fingers nimbly, delicately, lovingly holding chocolate
Like a man holding a woman’s heart in his own
Lips like a curtain
Tongue and mouth take completely its ethereal beauty
Close lips
Close eyes
Dream and take in
The essence of a chocolate kind of pleasure
UNIVERSAL
Science can not explain much
Not in the long run
The important things in life
The ways of love
A child’s smile
And chocolate itself
Chocolate is the universal answer to all life’s impossible equations
A universe which thirsts for knowledge
Even love
More a child’s smile
Can only be measured
By the amount of chocolate it consumes
WHAT IT IS
Like tapestry and sculpture
An opera or ballet
Designed, created unique all its own
Chocolate is the stuff fine art is made of
Like the length of the universe
Or the way of a lover’s kiss
Time and eternity
Chocolate can not be measured
Like a smile found any place on earth
Laughter, play or touch
Unexpected moments of happiness
Chocolate is universal
Like the wonder of the movement of a mountain
The stars, planets, their courses to go
Chemicals, reactions, and what we are made of
Chocolate is its own remarkable science
Not easily understood is Chocolate
Or universally defined into one lump explanation
Can not be placed into a box, but then -
Why should it be anything other than what it is?
CONTEMPLATIONS
Writers write
Dreamers dream
Artists paint
Coffee and cream
Philosophers ponder
Singers sing
Lovers kiss
On a porch swing
Dancers dance
Riders ride
Nothing prettier
Than a wedding bride
Watchers watch
Doers do
In all in all
Kisses, chocolate, and you
EVERYTHING
But they’re not roses
True
But they still say
I love you
Fill me up
Never let the glass half full
Chocolate like a fountain
Makes me lose control
I have married
My soul
To many another’s heart
Chocolate is the river flowing through
Chocolate on an ethereal day
Patterns in my mind
I am too drunk in love to rhyme
Give me another, make mine with nuts
Where are you now
Your thoughts long ago departed
To another’s shore
Chocolate wipes many tears away
Married you
For long these many years
Dreams that did not come true a plenty
Still I taste your sweet lips of chocolate
Kids rush in
When chocolate lifts its voice
Smiles
And friendships round and round
Love lifts up
Chocolate sets us in concrete
Taste
Joy goes a long way