The Days I Dream of Chocolate by L.M. Sanguinette

Author:L.M. Sanguinette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry, rupi kaur, poem, chocolate, love, romance, conversational poetry, ballad, philosophy, loss, grief, couple, relationship poetry, relationship goals, falling in love, poetry anthology, poetry books for women, poetry books for teens, poetry books for girls, poetry collection, love poems, collection of poems, milk and honey, poetry about death, breakups, poetry about breakups
Publisher: L.M.Sanguinette
Published: 2022-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

FRUIT AND NUT

In the year 1830, hazelnuts were introduced to the chocolate bar-making process by Charles-Amédée Kohler. This was the beginning of what history has come to known as combination bars. Nowadays, combination bars define the subgroup of chocolate confections which mix fruits, nuts, nougat, etc., adding a different dimension to the already delectable treat.

The following poems focus on the little things that we fall in love with that make life that much more pleasurable. These things tend to be the easiest to profess love for, as they speak to the truths about us, reflected in the external world. Cities, pets, friends, family, all are fair game when it comes to platonic love.

These poems, like their chocolatey counterpart, are fun, sweet, and in some cases, just a little nutty.

IN THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS

Who knows what you’ll find

in this city of lights and sounds and sights

at all hours of both day and night

this city, it never sleeps.

Music rings out on every street corner

clothing and food for our eyes to devour

bookshops that could’ve been castles await

in this city that never sleeps.

The hardworking folks catch the metro at 6

sitting next to the drunkards who have yet to return

from the wild Tuesday nights under neon lights

lining the city that never sleeps.

History comes to life before your eyes

strolling down the pathways of kings that were once

more than renewed cobblestone and patches of green

sprouting a city that never sleeps.

Museums of art and halls of science sit

quietly watching the pitter patter of city feet

along the busy bustling sidewalks and alleys

of the city whose patrons never sleep.

Coffee shops beckoning a young writer to stop

to plant herself firmly in the seat by the sill

a coffee in hand, a journal at her side

to detail the city that never sleeps.

And stories will be written of the sauntering songs

and all-consuming sights and scents

and the curious personas that flit about their days

in this city that never sleeps.

CITY OF GLASS

light and mystery leap from your corners

your people move with unrivalled vigor

through your winding alleyways

filled with wilder twisted tongues

as pastry scents saunter through baker’s windows

and streetcars chime their scheduled stops

we stroll the street that queens once walked

for fish and chips and chardonnay

and cross to kings in parallel

for coffee on a chilly day

until we reach the greater lake

where into greyer skies reach hands

of glass and steel from a shimmering skyline

to the heavens above.

DOREEN

The stately matriarch returns to her vanity

applies rouge to the lips age has wrinkled, not ruined.

Her hair has grown frosty and her eyes too, cold,

but her beauty and mind glitter ever bright like

the rubies dangling from her all-hearing ears.

She fluffs her feather-white hair with pride

the same way she has for the past seventy years

and spritzes perfume in clouds ‘round her neck

with dainty hands and elegantly glittered fingers

listening to Sinatra on the radio time left on her shelf.

This century is not like the last, she thinks

as she sweeps her draping pant leg from the floor,

remembering how only fifty years before,

though it feels to her like yesterday’s trials,

those trousers of hers would’ve need be a dress.

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