Ode to My Doctor, Who Has Done Little to Curry My Favor
Each of these foods you suggest for my diet
has not one feature to urge me to try it.
The chard is too leafy, the kale makes me gag.
I will be affianced to naught in this bag.
This fluffy green spinach would be best in a dip
with sour cream and onions and served on a chip.
I have not one vestige of an urge to consume it
raw in a salad, so do not assume it
will ever pass lips as selective as mine.
I need carbohydrates and meat when I dine.
Do you get the message that I’m on the outs
with arugula, collard greens, beet greens and sprouts?
My palate’s impavid when it comes to spice.
A molé is lovely and a curry is nice,
but please put some meat in it. I’m a contrarian
when you attempt to turn me vegetarian.
Prompt words for today are sprout, vestige, impavid, affiance and chip.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Hmm…. not easy to switch to a vegetarian diet.
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This is all fiction..I actually am liking meat less and less every year, but that doesn’t make me like kale!!!
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I like baby kale, and that too stir fried!
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That’s because you are an adult and my palate never grew up. I also hate fish, seafood, caviar, paté and organ meats.
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Each to their own taste. BTW, I don’t like those too.
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Okay. Vindicated.
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😍🤩
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This was fun. My parents would always find creative ways to get me to eat my greens. Sprouts and bacon was there best one.
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Ha.. seems as though they would contradict each other. My mother put bacon in her cooked spinach as well but I still didn’t eat it.
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It does contradict. Although I find it quite tasty. I love spinach raw ina salad.
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My sister makes a mean spinach salad. It all depends on the dressing.
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Oh yes the dreasing is key to any good salad.
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Very funny, Judy! But how can I get you to try kale? It’s delicious in soups and yummy pickled.
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Mhhhhh this is yum yummy
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It certainly makes me want curry for dinner!!!
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Entertaining use of the prompts! Fortunately, I do like greens of most sorts. Giving up meat isn’t all that likely, though. I’d curtail it more, except that would mean preparing separate dinners for me and the hubby. No thanks.
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Yes.. three meals a day is enough to cook.
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I hope I don’t have to go completely vegetarian!
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Ah I see now. I did wonder about that statement.
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Maybe not really cryptic, but not quite my normal comment!
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This is great and I learned 2 new words. Kip once said he could be a vegetarian if he didn’t like meat so much.
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I learned those same two new words, Mary. I didn’t know affiance had any other usage outside of a marriage engagement. I always resent obscure words as prompts as it seems pretentious to use them in a poem, but then I accept the challenge and it is fun to see if I can slip them in in a way that doesn’t seem stilted and that suggests their meaning. Just another little exercise to keep the mind working—on my part, that is.
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I like spinach. The rest of it? Yuck. Especially kale (unless in one of those wonderful Portuguese soups). I feel I OUGHT to be a vegetarian because I hate the idea of killing animals, but sadly, I’m hooked on real food.
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oh yes going vegetarian is hard, but going vegan….
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This was an imaginary narrator, Kumar. I eat anything I like and that I’m not allergic to..but in moderation.
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Thank you so much
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