As You Go Through Writing's Kitchen

 

Forget the sounds from all around, take a breath and settle down
Place your fingers on the keys, rest your mind and release

Your words to stir and expand a recipe to type with hand

A thoughtful verse to display about your doings of a day

Take a bowl to mix within where your idea begins and ends

Start with flour as an hour, add the moisture of a shower

A heap of leavening to raise your perception on the page

Think of butter, sugar, cream, cinnamon, and mixed berries

Fold them all into a mixture until your mind can see the picture

Of the vision you would write for you to read day or night

Remind yourself to create another moment that does not wait

For approval from another feed your mind and keep from trouble

Your own valued light of life that you live without the slight

Of some bag of misery waiting on its company

Find the ingredients in your soul of the sweetened story told

That shapes your days from times of enjoying life with those you love

Warm the thoughts to the temperature perfect for the posh adventure

Placed before you to create, in your own time, in your own way

Add a splash of cheery mood, your very own good natured stew

Sift the genial from the chaff, alleviate the scraps and crap

Serve the better that you find from your pantry of design

Do not fear to try some new speck of flavor that interests you

Add a sense, the fruit of life, a fresh picked apple crisped with rice

Take some nutmeg, lemon juice, toss together just to loose

The flavors of where you begun, mix them well until they crumb

In your hand like a cracker, toss them out there on the platter

Where they land upon the page in your writing for the day

Let them integrate and blend where you start and where you end

Never skip the toasting crust that includes a seasoned touch

As you go through writings kitchen, don't forget that you can mention

How you felt as you prepared your every day writing wares

That brought you through to compose a treat for others as a prose   

Or an essay, or a poem, keep your self within the norm

Of the range in which you read so you can easily perceive

The recipe in which to follow all your thoughts again tomorrow

When your fingers touch the keys to relax and to ease

All the thinking that you've thought from the bottom to the top

Adding more to benefit the serving plate that befits

The creator and the reader blended in the words together.

Jade Jaspers