Saturday 3 January 2015

JEWEL BOX SOUP:


Carrots, squash & pumpkin glistening gold,

Ruby tomatoes, peppers & beetroot bold,

Diamond transparency, of onions glinting,

Jewel box soup, without richness stinting,

Potatoes, parsnips, turnips & creamy swede,

Celery, leeks, courgettes to rich palates feed,

Beans, green, red, black & pearl barley white,

Hot bubbling in cauldron, within crystal light,

Pinch of ocean´s salt & black pepper cracked,

Spitting & dripping onto stove well blacked,

Stirred & watched with love & slowly boiling,

 Herbs & spices melding quietly & gently toiling,

Dished & served in bowls of aromatic steam,

With warm crusty loaf & mushroomed cream,

Jewel box soup, of green garden´s earthly gems,

Of vegetable ingots, leaves & sap filled stems,

Warming cockles of hearts on winter´s icy nights,

When Jack Frost calls & cold toes & fingers bites.

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