The Silence Rumbled, or the poem written in response to the Go Dog Go Tuesday prompt written while eating a chocolate croissant.

The silence that rumbled in my heart
Seeks solace, concocts words in verse
For a layered pastry filled with bitter-sweet
Chocolate. I am the butter spread on the dough
Left overnight to rise. We will bake off to paper
Thin crispness and be a flaky morsel
To devour. Do not doubt the preparation.
Do not doubt the hard work. Not by chance
Does life offer a dessert to plate up.
Yes, devour
The bittersweet chocolate folded in layers
Of risen, buttered dough; the time, the ingredients —
Perfection. I will be the butter, you, the dough.
So the silence in my heart rumbled until
At last, spoken, it gave birth to the boy
Left behind. A boy at last found, at last… heard.
Part One of a trilogy of poems written for this weeks Level UP prompts.
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20 Responses to “The Silence Rumbled, or the poem written in response to the Go Dog Go Tuesday prompt written while eating a chocolate croissant.”
A great piece of poetry. Love the imagery. Happy Chocolate Croissant Day.
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Thank you Goff! Tasty morsel it ‘twas.
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Cheers,
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Delicious!
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🥐
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Good one! To bad it made me hungry for such a delicacy, chocolate croissants.
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😂my work here is complete 😂
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😉
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Very nice use of metaphor! (And of course the chocolate croissant.)
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Thank you so much Liz. And yes… of course. 🤗
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🙂
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🤓
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Ah! Such a delicious metaphor!
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🥐 💙 🧈
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I made croissants first time yesterday and the entire process was very satisfying! 😊💙
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🤓👍🥐👍🤓awesome sauce
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Metaphor perfection, Stephen! Oh, how I love chocolate.
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Yummy poem to write or was that just the setting
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All of the above! 😋
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Who doesn’t love a chocolate filled pastry!!
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