the wonderful smell of spring

23 Feb 2013

the wonderful smell of spring

i walked outside
on a warm spring day
and smelled chocolate chip cookies

they must be coming from next door
i thought
so i moseyed to my neighbor’s back door
and knocked and waited
to be let in

my neighbor didn’t come to the door
so i walked to the kitchen window
and held onto the ledge
with my fingers
pulling myself up so my chin
rested on the ledge
the heels of my feet off the ground
lifted by the power of my toes

there i saw two sheets of
chocolate chip cookies
laid out on the counter
untouched and looking delicious

i wondered why my neighbor
didn’t want to share
her brand new cookies

i walk away
saddened
the smell of the cookies
lingering everywhere

february two thousand thirteen
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Posted in Poetry and tagged expectations, poem, Poetry, spring

14 thoughts on “the wonderful smell of spring”

Agatha-luise on February 23, 2013 at 9:27 am said:

Oh! It’s as if you can almost taste it on your tongue!

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- J Matthew Waters on February 23, 2013 at 9:47 am said:
  
  Ha-ha – well, that is awesome! 😀
  
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The Course of Our Seasons on February 23, 2013 at 9:46 am said:

Well – now that is just about the saddest poem ever! : ) K

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- J Matthew Waters on February 23, 2013 at 9:48 am said:
  
  I would have to agree with your assessment!
  
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  - The Course of Our Seasons on February 23, 2013 at 9:52 am said:
    
    But it does make me want to bake cookies and share them with the neighbors! Are you snowed in? Our ice is about gone – but new storm on the way Mon. K
  - J Matthew Waters on February 23, 2013 at 9:58 am said:
    
    wonderful!
    we have six inches on the ground with maybe more on the way monday and tuesday.
blackandwrite on February 23, 2013 at 8:09 pm said:

Very nice poem and thanks for teasing a diabetic that loves chocolate chip cookies. 🙂

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- J Matthew Waters on February 23, 2013 at 8:14 pm said:
  
  haha nothing personal my friend
  
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lucidwritingandvisuals on February 24, 2013 at 2:22 pm said:

This one is hilarious and so well done. I love the image of you peeping in the window. I might have spared you one, but when I go to the trouble of baking, my family usually gobbles it up quickly. You’d have to elbow in somehow to the cookie-trough.

Lucy

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- J Matthew Waters on February 24, 2013 at 2:26 pm said:
  
  Thanks so much, Lucy
  
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nightlake on February 24, 2013 at 6:08 pm said:

that sounds so sad

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- J Matthew Waters on February 24, 2013 at 6:16 pm said:
  
  yes, i imagine so
  
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Lolamarina (@1Lolamarina) on March 2, 2013 at 9:07 pm said:

MMmm. I can smell those chocolate chip cookies from my house!!

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- j matthew waters on March 2, 2013 at 9:19 pm said:
  
  Indeed!
  
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