Cracking the eggshells
Yellow yolk hits the fry pan
Salt covers the gold
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Rick Henry Christopher
Writing fulfills my need for intellectual stimulus, emotional release, and soothing the bruises of the day.
I’m an open book. I’m not afraid to show my face or speak my mind
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Let me be honest. I am finding this difficult. Now, I like a challenge, a stretch, a bit of an obstacle course. “Write about the decline of the British Empire in the form of a narrative poem in which your protagonist is an artichoke” I read, and flex my fingers. “Write a haiku to evoke the sensation of sibilance using only the first half of the alphabet.” “Well”, I think to myself, “this should be fun.” But “write about a system that isn’t working”? A system that isn’t working? Now? In 2026? ONE system? My favourite system that isn’t working? The sexiest system that isn’t working? The one giving me the most angst day to day? The one giving me the most existential dread? I am, as I say, finding this difficult. I will own that I have contemplated writing a thousand words on why the steady “all on” setting on my fairy lights is the EIGHTH of seven options which must be sequentially activated to get there, because that is a system that some fool came up with and it definitely doesn’t work, and now who is paying the price, eh? But how can I write about my fairy lights when…. When…. When….
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Great words and perfect image to complement them. “Eggsellent!”
Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
-Salt covers the gold-🤩 Such a great line because I can't think of another situation where that happens. And you just described a way it can. Awesome work, my friend!
The easiest and nutrition packed breakfast. Loved your poem!
I like the way you’ve evoked very specific and recognizable sounds here. I can hear breakfast cooking.
Yum! That made me hungry!
Man the bioavailability of protein in egg is excellent too. Decent price for a really nutritious meal. Thi reminds me of Bilbo Baggins trying to out riddle Gollum in The Hobbit.
Very nicely done! ☺️
This is making me hungry, and I am out of eggs.
So beautiful. I wanna try putting a yolk in the middle of my omelet now.
Oh, how I love me some eggs! Gold indeed. Nice one, Rick!
Ah, yummy! Love these deep golden-yellow yolks!
There’s something beautiful about calling ordinary things “gold.” Feels like you’re already starting the day grateful. ✨
Yum.
Damn it now I’m hungry