for Margo

Margo Roby’s Tuesday Tryout was a horror of a prompt for this metaphor-phobe, to think of an object and  list four or five previously unthought of uses for it.  There was a lot more to the prompt, but my mind seized up.  I read some of the other contributions, and remained in stasis.  Yesterday, being empty of poetry, I posted a recipe for Seriously Sinful Chocolate Cake.  This morning, still struggling, I suddenly thought Why not?   Mea culpa, Margo, but I forgot about your instruction to begin each line with an active verb.

 

A recipe for chocolate cake
can be an academic exercise,
to be read in an idle moment,
something to file and forget
or a temption to sin.
The making could be a challenge
and the baking problematic –
the result could be a disaster,
leading to guilty indigestion,
a few extra pounds on the hips;
a symphony of loveliness
or a poem in a poetry drought.