by Chris Brockman
Member since:
March 16, 2007

Nature's Bakery

May 05, 2012 06:04 PM UTC (Updated: May 07, 2012 04:59 PM UTC)
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Nature's Bakery


Mother is baking on the first really hot

Day in the middle of spring,

And the smells drift across my path

As I walk the freshly toasted road.


Sweet and simple as white cake,

The rambling rose welcomes me

To the smellelebration of spring.


A bit farther, spice cake honeysuckle

Beguiles my sensibilities with

Scheherazade layers of racy scent.


Not to be outdone, wastrel wisteria

Wafts rum cake intoxication to

Wind its way over my mellowed mind.


Past the olfactory factory row,

Busy woodsy lots yield to yards

Alternating the fruit tart fragrance

Of unmown white clover with

The ambrosial tea of newmown grass

Brewing on the solar stove.


Finally, I come to the homey smell of the

Field steaming in sun, the smell of green,

Frosted with mixed meadow flowers,

As essential as baking bread.


This will be the enduring aroma of

Mother's seasonal specialties

Sizzling on the grill

All summer long.


Chris Brockman

Comments: 32

Len Maxwell May 5, 2012, 6:11pm UTC
Posts such as this make me hungry. I'll abandon all writing so I can go out and fire up the charcoal for dinner. Thanks, Chris, I know what I'm having for dinner tonight.

Thanks for posting to the Wall of Olfactory Delights on The Triple Name Club where it's now featured.
JOHN BECK May 5, 2012, 6:15pm UTC
Beautifully poetic, Chris. I especially like "freshly toasted road".
Chris Brockman May 5, 2012, 7:32pm UTC
Walking on blacktop, with the sun beating down, in the upper 80's, that's how it feels all right.
Darin Waugh May 5, 2012, 6:29pm UTC
Nice!
Chris Brockman May 5, 2012, 9:35pm UTC
Thanks, Darin.
elizabeth evans May 5, 2012, 7:40pm UTC
Mother certainly knows how to bake well. (;
Chris Brockman May 5, 2012, 9:36pm UTC
And it smells so good.
Betty S. May 5, 2012, 8:03pm UTC
Hummmm.. This makes me want to go back in time ..
Chris Brockman May 5, 2012, 9:39pm UTC
These smells take me back to my childhood. I lived in a rural area and the return of the smells of nature after a winter in the deep freeze was a delight.
Betty S. May 5, 2012, 10:54pm UTC
So did I Chris..I miss that time.
Richard Lynn Livesay May 5, 2012, 8:52pm UTC
what a creative olfactory laiden poem...yummy good

accepted and Featured on Surreal circus
Chris Brockman May 5, 2012, 9:40pm UTC
Thanks, Richard. I often get inspiration on my walks. And thanks for the feature.
Denise L. May 5, 2012, 9:05pm UTC
Makes me hungry just reading it....
Chris Brockman May 5, 2012, 9:41pm UTC
The good thing about Mother Nature's cookin' is it's good for the soul......and it's not fattening.
KittyKutabare aka Candy Pole May 6, 2012, 9:09am UTC
olfactory gem~ delightful
Chris Brockman May 6, 2012, 1:13pm UTC
Thank you, ma'am.
David W. May 6, 2012, 12:46pm UTC
A food painting in words.
Chris Brockman May 6, 2012, 1:15pm UTC
Plus, it smells good ans has a nice texture. Omigosh, I hit all five senses in on piece!
Ann Marcaida May 6, 2012, 1:15pm UTC
Perfect timing on this poem. Yesterday I walked through a field and smelled for the first time this year that "melting wax" smell I associate with summer. (I have no idea what it is-- maybe the candles that accompany your feast?)

Thanks for sharing with Gather's Luminous Writers and Artists. Tweeted.
Chris Brockman May 6, 2012, 1:23pm UTC
Melting wax, that could be a variety of things depending on whether you're talking about scented candles. I would imagine brother Bill would call it the smell of life's candle, that essence of living things that rises from the earth baked by the sun. Thank you so much for smelling good. :)>
Connie C. May 7, 2012, 9:13am UTC
My husband picked me a bouquet of fresh flowers from our garden. I was awoke with the scent of them and it was AMAZING! I love the scents of nature.

I can remember my Grandmother was a big Apple pie and sugar cookie maker. Man did her house always smell good.

The memories are now flowing in my mind . . . . Thanks for starting my day off with a wonderful thought. :)
Chris Brockman May 7, 2012, 5:27pm UTC
You are so welcome. I added a few more from today's walk that I forgot to put in yesterday.
M L M. May 7, 2012, 1:04pm UTC
Neat poem.
Chris Brockman May 7, 2012, 5:27pm UTC
Thank you, M L M.
Gary (The Eclectic) Timothy May 7, 2012, 10:02pm UTC
Such an artistry of words!! Wonderfully done, my good man! :-)
Chris Brockman May 8, 2012, 7:41pm UTC
Thank you, Gary!
Bernard C. May 8, 2012, 1:13am UTC
Has my senses on alert looking for such delights - nicely written and quite the aroma first thing in the morning :-)

Thanks for sharing and submitting to
The Surreal Circus.
Chris Brockman May 8, 2012, 7:44pm UTC
Ah yes, morning has it's own wonderful smell.
Kenneth B. May 8, 2012, 12:47pm UTC
I can just smell the aroma. I think I'll go bake something. Hmmm, bread, cookies, both?
Chris Brockman May 8, 2012, 7:44pm UTC
Go for it, Kenneth!
William Dotani May 9, 2012, 3:21am UTC
Nicely aromatic.
Chris Brockman May 9, 2012, 4:30pm UTC
Thanks, William. I don't mind being told my writing smells.

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