you cooked me a meal
so delicious I barely stopped
between mouthfuls
the richness of its flavour
imprinted on my tongue
oblivious to the knowledge
that it wouldn’t last for long
I wiped my lips on a napkin
wishing for another taste
ignoring the red wine
in my glass in case
the piquancy went to waste
Kim M. Russell, 25th February 2020
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: Impermanence
Merril is our host for this week’s Poetics, and she tells us that she has been thinking about impermanence, something many poets have written about. She has given us examples from Basho, Robert Frost, Yeats and Jane Hirshfield.
Merril says that there are all types of impermanence, which can be a good thing, hence today’s challenge is to think about impermanence, things that are transient, or things that have passed their time, something different or unusual, and write poems about it, in any style or form.
writing in north norfolk 
This is as delicious as those plums left in the fridge… don’t know why it made me think of William Carlos Williams.
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Thanks Bjorn.
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The taste of food doesn’t last long, but there are memories of it.
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Oh this is perfect, Kim! I know exactly what you mean about wanting to keep those flavors in your mouth for a while.
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Thanks Merril!
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Mmm, yes, sometimes you really don’t want to wash that taste away. Perfect impermanence.
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Thank you, Sarah.
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Gave me a taste for a glass of wine.
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🙂
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The wine might have complemented the taste. If it didn’t you could always go back and have another forkful… How to make impermanence permanent 🙂
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It’s a balancing act! 🙂
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🙂
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Mmm, some tastes leave a permanent impression, recalled by their scent years later. Nice thought.
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Thanks Bev.
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Food memories and cooking smells that make me salivate, yes–food is practical and necessary, but thank God for taste buds.
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I’ll drink to that!
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Often I eat so fast and then it is gone.
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Even when I chew slowly, delicious meals are over too soon.
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Wonderful! But I culdn’t resist the wine. Smiles.
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🙂
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Good meals are always over too soon.
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That’s the sad thing. I remember when I was a child, the last one at the table trying hard not to gag on cold gristle.
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oh i have tasted and smelled this composition!
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A perfect meal should last forever – but it never does.
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agreed!!!
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Ah, the challenge, to savor each bite, when each bite wants so much to immediately follow the next!
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What can take hours to prepare is consumed in a flash. This is so lovely Kim.
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Thank you, Linda!
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It sounds like a a heavenly meal prepared with love, I can understand you didn’t want the wine to take any of the flavour away! A wonderful take on impermanence Kim 💗 xxx
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😊🌷❤ xxx
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A delicious meal is truly a treat in life. Great job of noticing and celebrating that experience.
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Thank you, Ali.
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Right here in Nigeria I can smell the composition!
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Thank you, Godfrey!
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