A Canine Point of View
©April 27th, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram
She tasted like cinnamon
On honey cake,
Apples and the sea.
She tasted like cardamom
And curry-leaf,
And tangerines three.
And sunshine and rain
And laughter and pain
And thoughts that remain
Though banished again.
She tasted of kindness
And sometimes self-blindness
She tasted of sorrow,
That threatened her morrows.
She tastes like a friend
Whom I’ll love until the end
And keep in my heart
From the end to the start.
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Today is Day 27 of NaPoWriMo 2017. The prompt reads:
Many poems explore the sight or sound or feel of things, and Proust famously wrote about the memories evoked by smell, but today I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that explores your sense of taste! This could be a poem about food, or wine, or even the oddly metallic sensation of a snowflake on your tongue.