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 ...