Lynn read this poem to me today:
Poetry for Weight Loss (recovered by Lynn)
A poem stems your craving,
Apples for the mind.
A serving of cherry pie with no fat.
Stunning the faculties,
Fascinating the attention.
Don't reach for the chips,
Chocolate syllables will satisfy,
Shrinking your waist, too.
I was taken with the words "chocolate syllables" and said,"Wow, who wrote that?" She answered, "You did." I couldn't believe I wrote such good words. And that I didn't remember anything about having done that!
That poem, called "Poetry for Weight Loss" and another, "Prose Poems" are now on this web page of some of my poems:
https://sites.google.com/site/kirbyvariety/bill-kirby-poems
I have noticed over the years that some poems and phrases seem extra nourishing. They keep my attention:
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain
When called by a panther, don't anther - Ogden Nash
Be still and know that I am God - Psalm 46:10
That's not a knife. This is a knife. - Crocodile Dundee
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all - Tennyson
I asked Lynn for a quote or saying that stays with her. She said,
"Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past." - Origin disputed but possibly Gerald Jampolsky.
