Poems for Peace / Comfort Food Poems

Peace Postcards!

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Karen Edmisten for Roundup. (While Karen is expecting snow, we've been enjoying super-warm weather! 77 degrees -- and the azaleas and tulip trees are in bloom!) I am posting early because I will be away from my desk tomorrow.

All this month I've been participating in the World Peace Poetry Postcard Project. That means I've been writing a poem a day and also receiving peace-full postcards. What a great project! Many thanks to Carla Shafer for organizing us. It's been fun and inspiring.
While I am not able to share the poems I've received without the senders' permission, I did want to share a few that I've written.... all these happen to be on the theme of comfort food. :)

Peace is a Sweet Potato Pie

cloud-topped

creamy sunshine

custard

scented with

a pinch of nutmeg

and allspice

it comes tucked

in a buttery,

flaky crust

to rest warm

and pillowy

on your tongue

it tastes

like gratitude

mmmmmmmmmm

- Irene Latham

(This poem was original titled "Peace is a Pumpkin Pie," after a photo, and I was thinking Thanksgiving, which explains the end... but then I realized the internal rhyme of "sweet" and "peace," and so I dumped the pumpkin for sweet potato!)

Peace in a Coffee Cup

Warm brown universe

frothed and creamed –

Welcome, it says.

Anything can happen,

anything can be!

- Irene Latham

(I'm actually a tea drinker, and really need to write a "Peace in a Tea Cup" poem... but I was working off a picture prompt.)

Like Peace for Chocolate

If only it came

foil-wrapped

with a creamy

center –

I'd take a bite

and you'd take a bite

and for an instant

all our struggles

and opinions,

our this-is-me-this-is-you

battlelines

would turn dark,

                bittersweet

                             milky

and then even that

would disappear

leaving our mouths

soft

and thick with

                         hope

- Irene Latham

(Someone asked me recently about my chocolate habit, so I'll share it here. I eat chocolate every day. I love those little Dove chocolates with the messages. My Valentine always gives me Godiva chocolates for Valentine's Day. I'll eat any sort, but if I was on a deserted island, just a nice piece of plain dark chocolate would be a dream! I'm also fond lately of Trader Joe's "no sugar added" dark chocolate bars. This doesn't mean "no sugar." It means exactly what it says: no sugar ADDED. Somehow this makes me feel better about eating it!)

What comfort food would you compare peace to?