Fairy

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baking, cheesecake, fairy, fear, food, fun, humor, humour, poetry, tanka

On the tribulations of baking, a Tanka

Baking a cheesecake.
Despite a few successes
(photographs to prove)
there’s always that nagging fear
the cake crack fairy will strike

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Choices

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child, childhood, food, haiku, humour, ice cream, life, people, poetry

On seeing a young hopeful

ice cream cabinet
child’s pressed nose leaves impression
so many choices!

The Look

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cats, food, haiku, humour, pets, poetry

Puss looking at me
Either contemplating life
or I look tasty.

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chips, eating, fish, food, haiku, poetry, temptation

Of course I refer to UK deep fried chips, as in ‘fish and chips’

Heads turned as he passed

Filling the breeze with desire

Chips with vinegar

tension

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baking, cakes, food, haiku, oven, poem, poetry, tension

watching cakes baking
drama, tense expectation
must clean oven glass

Mum

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family, food, haiku, mother, nature, poetry, rat

Busy young mother
Feeding her new family
Rat stealing bird food

Query

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food, haiku, humour, poetry, punctuation

Can’t make this one out

Unlikely punctuation

Possessive sausage?

bake time

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ckes, food, haiku, oven.cooking, poem, sponge, taste

through the oven door
I watch a sponge cake baking
anticipation

Parent

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bird, dusk, evening, food, haiku, hunting, light, parenting, poem, robin

Evening shadows fall
Still the robin hunts the lawn
Hard working parent

Lemon curd

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cookery, food, haiku, lemon durd, lemons, preserves, sweet

Whisking lemon curd
Sunshine captured in neat jars
Sweet and tart, like life