Give Us Our Daily
Give Us Our Daily–
Sure, I’d like to earn bread, writing–
but what I write for
is to b-read.
(Well, what I really write for
is to write more.)
But better read
than dead
which is what I would be
not writing.
(Being read is
the better bread
no ifs, ands or butter
about it.)
And so I knead and noodle,
breed words,
shape lines,
give rise to what is sometimes
admittedly half-baked
(always my wry
gets carried away),
feed too
on the b-read
of others, my dear
companions.
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Here’s a very belated and rather silly poem for Grace’s prompt on dVerse Poets Pub about bread. Process note-I think the word “companion” comes from the Latin, meaning someone with whom you break bread. Thank you for being mine!
Ps slightly edited since first posting.
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December 19, 2014 at 8:13 am
Don’t we all–want to be, write to b-read. I think this makes us the (at least part-time) staff of life. ;_) This made me smile, k–always a pleasure to get toasty with your words.
December 19, 2014 at 8:46 am
“B-read”: Great play on the word there.
We do want to be read but in some way, we write for ourselves. I really liked this bit: “And so I knead and noodle,/breed words,/shape lines…”
-HA
December 19, 2014 at 12:01 pm
Love the play of b-read, half-way is still good in my book ~ Better to appreciate the words and the writer than a dead one too ~
And K, we have OLN this Saturday, so feel free to link this up, smiles ~
December 19, 2014 at 1:40 pm
better read than dead….hahaha…I don’t know…somedays maybe….lol….fun word play in this….I hope you have a wonderful holiday k….
December 19, 2014 at 1:48 pm
Oh, this is clever!
December 19, 2014 at 10:59 pm
how’s that erasmus quote go? if I have a little money, i buy books. if I have any left over, I buy food? 🙂 ~
December 20, 2014 at 12:19 am
I enjoyed this, k…like jam on toast 🙂
December 20, 2014 at 5:36 am
that is a cool meaning of companion… love your wordplay here… b-read… and i don’t mind half-baked words every once and a while…
December 20, 2014 at 9:15 am
What fun, K. I like it. 🙂
December 22, 2014 at 3:06 am
Oh yes.. and that you are.. Such great use of the rhymes , read, bread and dead.. we are all here to be read.