Stewing (Mid-Chew)
A poetry entry in the Somewhere Between Here and There Challenge
Hand to mouth, I cannot wait, the casserole looks delicious
An impatient pop into my mouth
Sizeable meat and potato morsels drenched in gravy
OUCH- it's piping hot
Mid-chew, I bite my tongue
Huh, I seem to do that a lot these days
Bite my tongue that is
Never hungry enough to get to the heart of any matter
Never adding spice or flavor to a situation when called for
Never sharing ideas I've cooked up
Always accepting leftovers instead
It appears I ignore chomping at the bit, favoring stewing
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Author's Note: My entry plays on words related to stew. Happy eating, I mean reading!
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Marilyn Glover
Poet, writer, & editor, writing to uplift humanity. A Spiritual person who practices Reiki and finds inspiration in nature.
Mother of four, grandmother of two, British American dual citizen living in the States
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
Comments (4)
Brilliant!
Clever, but I can’t get the too hot stew out of my head. My tongue feels blistered just thinking about it
I love how you turned a simple moment of biting into hot food into a clever metaphor for holding back in life.
Hehehehehe I'm happy to eat, oops, I mean read! Loved your poem!