We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

15.4.25

Turkish Delight
















I’ve loved you since childhood:

for your smooth skin, just a little 

slippery; your flavour, fruity but 

delicate; your fine white coat

of dusted sugar; your scent I

inhale and savour …  More!



NaPoWriMo, Day Fifteen



I'm sharing this with Poets and Storytellers United for Friday Writings #177: Comfort Food.  Though I wrote this last month, it fits the prompt. Sweet things are my infallible comfort food. 





20 comments:

  1. Now I have a hankering for Turkish delight, Rosemary!

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    1. And guess what? It's perfectly OK for my Vegan eating!

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  2. Ooh yes, the smell of Turkish Delight - sweet as your words - Jae

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  3. A love poem to your favorite dessert. And More!!
    I like it!

    Or is it an ood? Are love poems generally oods?
    ..

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  4. How I love to read such delicious poetry Rosemary! Aaaaah. How lovely!! And thank you so, so much for your beautiful comments on my poems. It was so interesting to know that you had visited Konark temple with your husband.

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    1. Ah! I missed knowing of this Konark visit. I was in Bhubaneswar, Odisha this year.

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  5. I missed your Konark visit :(
    Just learned of it now.
    Odisha has lovely desserts- hope you had a chance to try them when you were here.

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    1. Sumana mentioned the temple in one of her poems, so I told her I had been there. It was back in 1998, when my husband was alive. I vaguely recall lots of good food, but my main delight was to try and identify places in Odisha from the family photo album. My Anglo-Indian (as n mixed race) grandmother lived there long ago, with her two children, my Uncle Ian and my mum, and with their English stepfather who was the only Grandpa I ever knew. They migrated to Tasmania when Mum was 15.

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  6. I learned not all Turkish delight is created equal. Some are absolutely scrumptious. Some are meh. It's totally worth seeking out the good stuff.

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    1. I must be very lucky; I've never encountered the inferior stuff.

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  7. Sweets are my DOWNFALL! Love your sweet little poem, Rosemary.

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  8. *Giggle.* Yes I'm sure I'm not alone.

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