Chinese New Year
Brocaded Buddhas
catch a ride
on the hostess’ bodice.
You shave splinters from your chopsticks and
watch the waiter caress pancakes
with plum sauce.
Your fortune reads,
“Someone will make you happy tonight.”
I concur.
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Wishing you a Happy New Year of the Monkey
In honor of the Chinese New Year we are writing poetry to this theme…perhaps you will find inspiration in a fortune cookie.
Please join us at dVerse Poetics where Toni is our hostess. The poetry pub opens at 3 PM EST.
Your meal is enticing, and your fortune wonderful.
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ForTunes oLd.. Fortunes
TOld.. believing new..
placebo works..
Voodoo new
yes.. nocebo
real.. too..
old
or new..:)
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So much said and so succinctly…well done…I enjoy the tone. 🙂
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Very interesting; why do they shave the chopsticks?
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Chinese restaurant here often offer cheap wooden chopstick for one time use.They are made of a very soft wood and splinter easily so most people rub them together to get rid of the splinters.
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You’re right, I never even thought of doing that!
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sooo love this poem specially the first few lines…
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Now I am hungry! Love this enjoyable writing!
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“…watch the waiter caress pancakes with plum sauce…..”
DEEElicious! 🙂 Smiling I am….
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I haven’t eaten Chinese food for the longest time and don’t remember the last fortune cookie. I like the brocaded Buddhas …
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One can be mesmerized by the wisdom of these quotes. Obviously these quotes had gone through generations of usage that they are just faultless.
Hank
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Short…but yet bursting at the seams with rich and beautiful descriptions. Love it!
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Plum sauce, pancakes and chopsticks certainly make me happy, even if you have to shave off the splinters… a charming and compact poem.
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Oh great scene there..vivid image!
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Love that fortune, Victoria…a nice ending to your poem.
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“you shave splinters from your chopsticks” is a metaphor for life, if ever I heard one. Fantastic.
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Wow, it is, isn’t it!
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Love the surprising ending ~ I would really love to that fortune cookie Victoria ~
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I’m especially enamored of the first three lines.
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This is beautifully written 🙂 especially love “the waiter caress pancakes with plum sauce.”
Lots of love,
Sanaa
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Not quite the quote in the prompt but hey, shoes, someone….hope everyone has something that makes them happy today and everyday.
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I’m learning that I need to slow down and read prompts more carefully…and then I perpetrated the crime as Glenn used my quote. Sorry, Toni. Maybe I’ll have time to write to the prompt.
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Thank you. I just put so much into my posts, as do we all. The shoes was such a touch of whimsy that it made me grin hugely when I opened the cookie. We just have had problems in the past with prompts not being followed. Right now I am just a roiling sea of frustration with puter problems, heat not working…27F today.
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with those pancakes and the sauce I feel a Peking duck… Just the taste makes me smile with joy… I should celebrate, and what a coincidence that it’s also fat Tuesday today.
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Chinese dining is one of the staples in my life. At my favorite restaurant, they know I have 7 grandchildren, so they gave me a bag of broken fortune cookies for them. The tykes enjoyed the Chinese cookies for weeks.
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I love the things and make my own because they are simple enough even for me. I love Chinese food almost as much as Japanese.
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There is nothing like celebrating Chinese New Year in such a beautiful setting. The fortune makes a wonderful climax to the evening!
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