Thursday, August 30, 2012

Hot Capsicum


Image: Hank's own soft pastel sketch on an A4 size dark drawing paper
Note: In grappling with a new form with repeat endings I decided to revamp an earlier poem (here) together with the sketch for a quickie offering. Hoping I'm forgiven this time for an easy way out.

Glistening with pride hidden a taste, spicy
Fondness for chili peppers amidst fine servings
A capsicum sneaky of yellow, red and green

Gives a kick at lunch mixed with other greens
A salad bowl for a taste bud for hot and spicy
Creates a howl for those timid in their servings

Hotplate with meaty offerings of fine servings
Gnashed, gnawed spicing up the chow of varied greens
Fitting for a King at a lunch sitting all that’s spicy

Spicy servings an adventure with greens


Written for Sam's Forms For All - A Tritinas at d'Verse

25 comments:

  1. ha i love the spice man....we used to have a pepper garden when we lived in FL....and cooked with them often...all diff kinds...nicely done to form man...

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  2. Texans love peppers - turns out to be so very good for you - we don't restrict them to lunch - they go out in breakfasts, lunches, supper, and late nite snax. You must try a stuffed jalapeno..cheese and shrimp - yum!

    Lovely use of the form and a mighty fine still life of the pepper!

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  3. Enjoyed this, Hank. The first time I ever heard the word 'capsicum' was when I was in an Asian country. Perhaps Thailand? I love them hot...and those we had in Asia were especially so. You worked the form well and definitely tweaked my memory!

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  4. Have you ever tried an orange pepper and Cheese whizz spread on it? Delicious. Now I'm hungry. Great artwork too Hank, you are a man of many talents!

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  5. My tongue can't take spicy stuff but I do like the adventure with greens ~ Nice form Hank ~

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  6. Never have eaten them on bit
    Prob give my mouth a fit
    But sound like they go over well
    You never know, maybe one day atmy cell

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  7. Your last line is my favorite in this fun read of, I think, a rowdy salad.

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  8. Whoa! Uncle Hank, that capsicum sizzles! The poem too. Errr.....wanna sketch me instead? har har har *evil laughs*

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  9. Not just the dishes, you spiced up the poem as well! Excellently done.

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  10. nice...cool sketch and cool tritina as well...and peppers are awesome

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  11. A double dose of talent with the sketch as well:)

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  12. Now there's a tasty poem! Spicy. An entertaining working of the form.

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  13. Very well done! You used this form so well ! Good job! k.

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  14. Very well done! You used this form so well ! Good job! k.

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  15. Nice pastel sketch... and an excellent variation on the tritina. It was interesting to see the evolution from your earlier poem into the tritina, the choices that had to be made to fit the end-line format, the make-up of the envoy, the differing line-lengths. All in all, well done.

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  16. Chillies, capsicum, lada.

    we cqn't do without them!

    Spicy!

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  17. So good, Hank, and I love your pastel. That's one media I never had much luck with...might be fun to try again. The form seems to have lent itself to food/spice poetry.

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  18. Spicy and I like the skecth--also how much action this poem has--all the verbs ending in -ing seem to make it feel it has a life of its own--just like the pepper enlivens the dish. Loved it, Hank.

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  19. You have shown that sketching is yet another talent which is beginning to unveil itself.

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  20. I too love capsicum....this i enjoyed a lot.....:-)

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  21. Hank, your painting is totally wonderful. We should have featured it in the interview.........your poem totally captures the flavors and spicyness. Just wonderful!

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  23. Oh wow this is excellent. I love your poem as well.

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  24. Wonderful marriage of word and art!! The pepper is truly terrific. Love your style!

    Hugs Giggles

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