(Just something silly – for all my friends who love chocolate – you know who you are!)
.
Spinning like a top
this centrifugal pull
tears my arms in all directions,
clicks me out of cruise control
while my eyes are doing circles
and my toes are burning off
from the friction of the floor,
and my hair swirls into floss
and the world outside grows blurry
and the colors blend to white
till at last I start to wobble
just in time to say goodnight!
.
(c) 1992, 2014 Betty Hayes Albright
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I can completely relate, as I, too, am a chocoholic! This is lovely and I could almost feel the spinning and pulling! I wrote on this delicious subject awhile back, if you’d like to read it…http://lscotthoughts.com/2011/10/21/le-chocolat/
I love this, Betty, very cleverly written and a perfect ending…start to wobble just in time to say goodnight)! 🙂
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I loved your poem, Lauren – thanks for the link!!! Can’t imagine a world without chocolate, can you? 🙂
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Thanks for visiting the link and I’m glad you enjoyed it! No, I can’t imagine life without chocolate and I just had some! ‘Tis the season! 🙂
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Betty,
Ethel tonight went and got the box of pinion chocolates that Lars, her nephew, sent us for Christmas, and we each had one even though we were trying to not indulge ourselves. Why? Do we want to spend the rest of our life wobbling?
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Indulge, I say!!!! (When it comes to chocolate, anyways…) Wobble away! 😀
(What was that old toy commercial – “Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down”…?)
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Right now, downstairs in the dark kitchen, four milk chocolate Linden’s, wrapped in bright red foil, are calling in an eery whisper which only I can hear, “Lindy Lee, Lindy Lee come on down. Don’t let anybody see…
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Oohh, I hear them whispering too, Lindy Lee… don’t resist this elixir of the gods!
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no more chalalat….
great! I love when writers… just observe-no pretense- just really smart!
the realness and creative mind really shines.
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Glad you enjoyed that, Heather. 🙂
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Oh, Betty, your photograph is SUCH an eveil temptation in itself! How odd that I have suffered with minor gastrointestinal disorders this week after overindulging in holiday chocolates at one too many parties! I was wobbling, alright. I enjoyed Lauren’s writing on chocolate love earlier this month. And Martin Shone and I sometimes tweet each other into a “chocky” coma. Love it when you are in a fun mood like this, Betty!
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Granbee, hope you’ve recovered from your “wobbling” episode”. Oh No!!!!
I have the same problem – can’t eat too much of it, unlike when I was younger (wrote this almost 20 years ago). But I love it just the same, if not more – especially the dark varieties! And I’ve found that by taking something called “Prelief” first, I can eat more. As Lindy Lee says, it calls to me, even now – the See’s chocolates in the kitchen cupboard…. 🙂
P.S. Guess I’m normally far too serious here most of the time – will have to start posting more of my silly poems. 😀
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I expect to feel like this over the next few days!!
This is delightful and delectable Betty!
Christine
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Have fun, Christine!!! Glad you liked the poem. 🙂
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🙂 mmm sugar rush, chocolate push, sweet delight in my sight!
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Am going to have lunch now, Martin… and then for dessert, a delectable dark chocolate truffle, savoring each little bite, yummmmmmm!!
Wish I could send these out to you and everyone else here – they’re worth the wobble!!
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*droooooooooooooooooooool* Me want chock, Me want now, Me want chock, Me want delectable dark chocolate twuffle :…-(
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Me tease, hee hee!!!
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Me just ate a bag of Minstrels, soft chocolate encased in a hard shell, that lingers on your tongue until the shell snaps and into the soft you go – however I went for the quick option and wolfed them down 😀
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Haha a delightful and timely rhyme for all of those holiday indulgences. What a cute little thought! Wonderfully done, Betty!
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Thanks, VW! Hope you’ve had some chocolate in your life this holiday season. Some days it’s what keeps me going! 😀
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Oh, this is great! I just rolled out of bed–and the picture makes me want to reach through my computer screen and grab a couple of those wonderful dark chocolates, in hope of waking up! I made some fudge you might like–dark chocolate with orange extract–fairly decadent! Hope you’re taking it easy, sister of the sea–Merry, merry Christmas!!
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Caddo, hope you had a wonderful Christmas!! That fudge sounds sooooo delicious. 🙂 (Taking it easy today, thank you, after two hectic days!
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Love, love, love! How DID the world function before the discovery of the cocoa bean?!
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That’s what I’ve often wondered, Planaquarium. I can’t imagine a world without chocolate!! 🙂
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If I have chocolate I eat it, so I don’t buy it, but at Christmas time it’s everywhere so I finish up making myself a little sick and have a chocolate hangover for a few days.
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Dennis, I know what you mean, lol!
My strategy is to keep chocolate around ALL the time – and nibble on a little every day (for medicinal purposes, of course! 🙂 ) That way I avoid big splurges – which definitely don’t agree with me. A chocolate a day keeps the doctor away! 😀
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This drew me into thoughts than chocolate. But that’s just me. 😉
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Hi, Ben – was it those colors blending into white? (I just had to sneak in a metaphor… 🙂 )
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… And who can deny an inviting metaphor, after all? 😀
Hmmm. I see I missed out the “other” in my first pass as this sentence. 😦
“This drew me into thoughts other than chocolate.”
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Ben, I knew the word “other” was there – just invisible! 😀
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I don’t get it, it’s JUST chocolate …… hehehehe ok, running back to hide under my rock before things get really ugly!! Wonderful poem Betty.
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LOL, Michael – no such thing as JUST chocolate!! Thanks for stopping by and for commenting. I’m continuing to enjoy YOUR poetry. 🙂
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