The Poetry Bus: Odes to Pancakes

This week's Poetry Bus has Peter Goulding as its competent driver. He has given us a collection of prompts that deal with Pancakes, poets and inebriated state of mind. I've chosen to go with the pancake theme with a hint of inebriation in the rondeau form and then a parody of e.e. cummings' poem, "O Sweet Spontaneous."

Ode to Pancake Temptation

There, on my fine bone china plate

a stack of pancakes numbering eight

and neighboring maple trees in a row

provide home grown syrup to amply flow,

as fresh, sweet butter on top does skate.

To eat this meal at such a rate

won’t help in my quest of losing weight

yet hunger’s there; it won’t let go

there, on my fine bone.

Last night’s bottle sealed my fate

through philosophical debate

determined now to my pinky toe

wisdom’s garden I must hoe

as calisthenics accelerate 

there, on my fine bone.

Jeanne I. Lakatos  2011

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O Sweet Pancake Temptation

(a parody of e.e. cummings' "O Sweet Spontaneous")

O golden pancakes

dripping

with sweet syrup

extracted

from maple’s vein

and butter squeezed

from bovine’s teat.

Does humanity

know the sacrifice

from earth’s offerings

for gluttony’s

bliss?

My sweat

pours forth

dripping

sweet with

determination

for release.

Jeanne I. Lakatos  2011