Oatmeal

[HopeHoops]

Oatmeal
Thomas P. Shultz
23 Sep 09

Raisins, cinnamon apples, or syrup
Choices to be made!
A life of choices
Raisins?
Impatient attendants await; the choice?
Cinnamon apples?
Won't cooperate again
Syrup
Raisins, cinnamon apples, or syrup

Nicole? Natalie? Natasha?
I no longer bother to remember
Call a name
A response comes, most times
Raisins today?

The oatmeal settles, concrete more like
For so much sleep, my lids are always weighted
The sails of the corsairs, clouds on the horizon
Seven tall oaks surround the moss-covered slopes of the inlet.
Cinnamon apples tomorrow, I decide

Away on the ships I take leave of this place
Dawn on the blue sea; refreshing
A new life of new choices?
Oatmeal
No raisins, cinnamon apples, or syrup

[byronius]

1. Like.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear HopeHoops...

Ah, very nice!

The imagery is great...

I'm imagining a scene in a nursing home, where our subject is being asked which sort of oatmeal he or she wants...

By the impatient caregiver!

:hi: