Saturday, November 15, 2014

Sweet Sugar Sunday


Lynn Greyling




Sweet Sugar Sunday

She was nibbling at her toast on Sunday
morning when they started to speak, eyes
lingering on each other. Mother began to
mix brown sugar into oatmeal, but the thing
about brown sugar is it tends to be just about
as subtle a cover for oats, breakfast of horses,
as are lingered looks a cover for hints of 
brown-molasses-sugar-night-sounds.  
Sounds that sweet and smooth drifted like 
powder, floating on 
pale blue light
late last night under
her doorway - From their passion to her palate
to the core of her soul – tasted on her tongue 
This Sunday morning as she ate her toasty
break-fast: Spooned-served-love on the side 
smiling parents on a sweet-sugar-Sunday-sigh




20 comments:

  1. All is sweet, a desert! And brown sugar is good on almost everything!

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  2. I think brown sugar works well with oats.. I might be a horse :-)

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  3. very interesting write, life is not always as it seems. Very nice.

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  4. What a warm and wonderful Sunday morning! That kind of 'sugar high' is a good thing!

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  5. "........From their passion to her palate / to the core of her soul"..path of the unconditional love....

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  6. "........From their passion to her palate / to the core of her soul"..path of the unconditional love....

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  7. This is very sweet (pun intended). I hope many youngsters, and not so young people, can experience 'smiling parents on a sweet-sugar-Sunday-sigh' once in a while.

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  8. What a blissful morning. :)

    I really like all your hyphenated sections, like "brown-molasses-sugar-night-sounds."

    This:
    "powder, floating on
    pale blue light
    late last night"

    And this:
    "sweet-sugar-Sunday-sigh"

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  9. What a dreamy sweet Sunday morning...definitely one which would warm body and soul

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  10. I LOVE brown sugar on oatmeal - more than the oatmeal, sadly. I enjoyed this Pearl.

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  11. Neigh!!!! Feeling their oats I should say.

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  12. So she guessed did she? It is going to be good day for all of them.

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  13. Me thinks her sweet smile covers a secret, warm and carefully hidden,

    Elizabeth

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