#General #Frost is watching – v2 #poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter #Madyar #MagyarsBirds

Moscow has been sleeping
St. Petersburg is waking from deep slumber
Suddenly seeing urgent attacks
wave upon wave...
 
The stillness has been shattered
with every drone strike...
General Frost is watching
for what will come next...
 
Life will change radically this winter
as the energy sector is struck...
The war will come home
as the mercury drops...
 
The distance has been removed,
Russia’s ancient line of protection...
Ukraine’s missiles and drones
will plunge them into darkness...
 
------
Edited July 28, 2026
General Frost is watching – v2
 
Robert Brovdi’s promise in his interview...
Robert “мадяр” Brovdi, (spelled “Magyar” (Hungarian) and “Madyar” (Ukrainian))
Commander of the Unmanned Systems of Ukraine
Interview by Caolan Robertson
“This Man is Destroying Putin’s Empire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DA7EXbf_d4Edited July 23, 2026
Magyar’s Birds – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/07/magyars-birds-v2.html
Edited November 2, 2025
General Frost, General Winter – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/11/general-frost-general-winter-v3.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1N5V0sz-0
The title is about the Russian winter and its role in
the Great Northern War, the Napoleonic War, and WWII,
and how it may be very different in the Ukraine War,
where Ukraine is using asymmetrical warfare to attack
oil and gas infrastructure rather than invading
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, Ukraine, Russia, Winter, General Frost, General Winter, power, heat, gasoline, drones, Magyar, Magyar’s Birds,
 
#poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter #Madyar #MagyarsBirds

#General #Frost is watching #poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

Moscow has been sleeping
St. Petersburg waking from deep slumber
Suddenly seeing urgent attacks
wave upon wave...
 
The stillness has been shattered
with every drone strike...
General Frost is watching
for what will come next...
 
Life will change radically
as the energy sector is struck...
The war will come home
as the mercury descends...
 
The distance has been removed,
Russia’s ancient line of protection,
Ukraine’s missiles and drones
will plunge them into darkness...
 
------
July 24, 2026
General Frost is watching
 
Robert Brovdi’s promise in his interview...
Robert “мадяр” Brovdi, (spelled “Magyar” (Hungarian) and “Madyar” (Ukrainian))
Commander of the Unmanned Systems of Ukraine
Interview by Caolan Robertson
“This Man is Destroying Putin’s Empire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DA7EXbf_d4Edited July 23, 2026
Magyar’s Birds – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/07/magyars-birds-v2.html
Edited November 2, 2025
General Frost, General Winter – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/11/general-frost-general-winter-v3.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1N5V0sz-0
The title is about the Russian winter and its role in
the Great Northern War, the Napoleonic War, and WWII,
and how it may be very different in the Ukraine War,
where Ukraine is using asymmetrical warfare to attack
oil and gas infrastructure rather than invading
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, Ukraine, Russia, Winter, General Frost, General Winter, power, heat, gasoline, drones,
 
#poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

General Frost, General Winter – v3 #poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

Генерал Мороз, Генерал Зима
 
He is no longer a brother, an ally,
He has become an adversary,
the Bear will soon face destruction
in the daunting desert of cold…
 
General Frost, General Winter,
has become their enemy,
the source of their sorrow,
as the lights flicker out,
freezing in the dark…
 
Not like in history, wars of the past,
when Winter was their friend,
the trap of earlier times
when the enemy was beaten by cold…
 
Now, in this moment,
against asymmetrical war,
the vastness of Russia,
the steppes, the cold of Siberia,
General Frost will bring their doom…
 
Every queue for gasoline, for diesel,
Every train fuel that is destroyed,
shattering their sense of security
the barrenness of the cold…
 
Every refinery set ablaze, on fire,
new missile attacks on thermal power
the darkness when the electricity stops,
sets the stage for sorrow, General Frost,
for their quickening death…
 
------
Edited November 2, 2025
General Frost, General Winter – v3
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1N5V0sz-0
The title is about the Russian winter and its role in
the Great Northern War, the Napoleonic War, and WWII,
and how it may be very different in the Ukraine War,
where Ukraine is using asymmetrical warfare to attack
oil and gas infrastructure rather than invading,
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, Ukraine, Russia, Winter, General Frost, General Winter, power, heat, gasoline, drones,
 
#poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

descending into #darkness – v3 #General #Frost General #Winter #Russia #Ukraine #Cold #Snow #drones #war #energy #powerplants

Генерал Мороз, Генерал Зима

A nation-state of terror
collapsing in on itself,
no information for their people…
Retribution for genocide
for premeditated murder,
for their endless war crimes...
No longer an ally, a brother,
The Bear will soon face destruction…
General Frost, General Winter,
has become their enemy,
the source of their sorrow,
as the lights flicker out,
freezing in the dark…

Descending into darkness
As Russian Winter closes in,
no longer safe, protected,
drones targeting electricity,
thermal power stations, refineries,
War has finally come home...
Not like in history, wars of the past,
When Winter was their friend...
Now, at this moment,
against asymmetrical war…
The vastness of Russia,
The steppes, the cold of Siberia,
General Frost will bring their doom…

The bear is caught in a trap
Retribution from the skies,
No longer an ally, a friend,
The enemy of General Winter…
Judgment is coming quickly,
in His hand, His icy grip...
Every queue for gasoline, for diesel,
Every fuel train that is destroyed,
shattering their sense of security…
Every refinery set ablaze, on fire,
new missile attacks on thermal power
Sets the stage for sorrow, General Frost,
for their cold, quickening death…

-----
Edited October 8, 2025
descending into darkness – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/10/descending-into-darkness-v3.html
Ukrainian drones and missiles
taking out Russian energy systems
as Winter approaches…
Edited September 30, 2025
General Frost, General Winter – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/09/general-frost-general-winter-v2.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1N5V0sz-0
The title is about the Russian winter and its role in
the Great Northern War, the Napoleonic War, and WWII,
and how it may be very different in the Ukraine War,
where Ukraine is using asymmetrical warfare to attack
oil and gas infrastructure rather than invading,
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, Ukraine, Russia, Winter, General Frost, General Winter, heat, gasoline, drones, thermal power plants,
 
#poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

descending into #darkness – v2 #General #Frost General #Winter #Russia #Ukraine #Cold #Snow #drones #war #energy #powerplants

Генерал Мороз, Генерал Зима

A nation-state of terror

collapsing in on itself

Retribution for genocide 

for their endless war crimes...

No longer an ally, a brother,

The Bear will soon face destruction…

General Frost, General Winter,

has become their enemy,

the source of their sorrow,

as the lights flicker out,

freezing in the dark…

Descending into darkness 

As a Russian winter closes in,

drones targeting electricity, 

The war has finally come home...

Not like in history, wars of the past,

When Winter was their friend...

Now, at this moment,

against asymmetrical war…

The vastness of Russia,

The steppes, the cold of Siberia,

General Frost will bring their doom…

The bear is caught in a trap

The enemy of General Winter, 

Judgment is coming quickly,

in His hand, His icy grip...

Every queue for gasoline, for diesel,

Every fuel train that is destroyed,

shattering their sense of security…

Every refinery set ablaze, on fire,

new missile attacks on thermal power

Sets the stage for sorrow, General Frost,

for their quickening death…

----

Merged October 7, 2025

descending into darkness – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/10/descending-into-darkness-v2.html

Ukrainian drones and missiles
taking out Russian energy systems
as Winter approaches…
Edited September 30, 2025
General Frost, General Winter – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/09/general-frost-general-winter-v2.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1N5V0sz-0
The title is about the Russian winter and its role in
the Great Northern War, the Napoleonic War, and WWII,
and how it may be very different in the Ukraine War,
where Ukraine is using asymmetrical warfare to attack
oil and gas infrastructure rather than invading,

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
Poetry Where You Live.

Poetry, Ukraine, Russia, Winter, General Frost, General Winter, power, heat, gasoline, drones,

#poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

descending into darkness #Russia #Ukraine #Cold #Snow #drones #war #winter

a nation-state of terror
collapsing in on itself
Retribution for genocide
for endless war crimes...

descending into darkness
as Winter closes in,
drones targeting electricity,
the war come home...
 
the Bear caught in a trap
the enemy of General Winter,
an accounting coming quickly,
in His icy grip...

descending into darkness 
Ukrainian drones and missiles
taking out Russian energy systems
as Winter approaches…

---

October 7, 2025

descending into darkness

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/10/descending-into-darkness.html

Edited September 30, 2025
General Frost, General Winter – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/09/general-frost-general-winter-v2.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1N5V0sz-0
The title is about the Russian winter and its role in
the Great Northern War, the Napoleonic War, and WWII,
and how it may be very different in the Ukraine War,
where Ukraine is using asymmetrical warfare to attack
oil and gas infrastructure rather than invading

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com 

Poetry Where You Live.

Poetry, Ukraine, Russia, Winter, General Frost, General Winter, power, heat, gasoline, drones

#poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

#General #Frost, General #Winter – v2 #Russia #Ukraine #Cold #Snow #drones #war

Генерал Мороз, Генерал Зима

No longer an ally, a brother,
The Bear will soon face destruction…
General Frost, General Winter,
has become their enemy,
the source of their sorrow,
as the lights flicker out,
freezing in the dark…

Not like in history, wars of the past,
When Winter was their friend...
Now, in this moment,
against asymmetrical war,
the vastness of Russia,
the steppes, the cold of Siberia,
General Frost will bring their doom…

Every queue for gasoline, for diesel,
Every train fuel that is destroyed,
shattering their sense of security…
Every refinery set ablaze, on fire,
new missile attacks on thermal power
Sets the stage for sorrow, General Frost,
for their quickening death…

------
September 30, 2025
General Frost, General Winter – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/09/general-frost-general-winter-v2.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1N5V0sz-0
The title is about the Russian winter and its role in
the Great Northern War, the Napoleonic War, and WWII...
and how it may be very different in the Ukraine War,
where Ukraine is using asymmetrical warfare to attack
oil and gas infrastructure rather than invading.  

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
Poetry Where You Live.

Poetry, Ukraine, Russia, Winter, General Frost, General Winter, power, heat, gasoline, drones, warfare

#poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

General Frost, General Winter #frost #winter #cold #Russia #TarasShevchenko #Taras #Shevchenko #muse #poetry #Ukraine #Ukraina #war

No longer an ally, a brother,
The Bear will face destruction,
General Frost, General Winter,
has become their enemy,
the source of their sorrow,
as the lights flicker out…

Not like history, wars of the past,
when Winter was their friend,
Now, in this moment,
the vastness of Russia,
the steppes, the cold of Siberia,
General Frost will bring their doom…

Every queue for gasoline, for diesel,
every train fuel that is destroyed,
every refinery set ablaze, on fire,
missile attacks on thermal power
Setting the stage for sorrow,
for the quickening of death…

----
September 29, 2025
General Frost, General Winter
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/09/general-frost-general-winter.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1N5V0sz-0
The title is about the Russian winter  and its role in
the the Winter War, the Great Northern War, the Napoleonic War, and WWII,

and how it may be very different in the Ukraine War,
where Ukraine is using asymmetrical warfare to attack
oil and gas infrastructure rather than advancing.  

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com 

Poetry Where You Live.

Poetry, Ukraine, Russia, Winter, General Frost, General Winter, power, heat, gasoline, drones,

#poetry #Ukraine #Russia #Winter #drones #power #heat #gasoline #GeneralFrost #GeneralWinter

No gloves #bakery #oven

Sorry if my memory is imprecise,
if I don’t get all the facts straight,
but I so member marveling, stopping,
watching how he worked.
 
This was my orientation of sorts,
not yet on the job training, working,
walking on a tour of the bread factory,
Where I would spend many weeks.
 
I was transfixed for a few moments,
watching how he worked,
a combination of brute force
and the repetition he knew…
 
Standing at the bread oven,
catching the pans as they crashed out,
hot from the cooking, ready,
to be sent on down the line.
 
I was a bit bolder than I should be,
asking how long he had worked there,
thirty-six years old and eighteen years,
right after graduating high school.
 
Why I remember a five-minute conversation,
now forty-five years since those moments,
is that his hands were thick-calloused yellow,
and on those hands he had no gloves.

-----------------
February 24, 2024
No gloves
 
&
February 24, 2024
Two shirts hanging
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/two-shirts-hanging.html
Sweating at the roll oven,
No door to the oven,
no exhaust hood…
&
February 23, 2024
Making the dough
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/making-dough.html
The mixing room on the top floor
of Holsum Bakery (formerly Goddard Bakery)
Maple Street, Claremont, NH,
Summer of 1979,
after my first year of college.
I worked 14 weeks on the roll oven
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, bakery, factory, industrial, dough, rolls, oven, bread, mixer, work, memories, Claremont, NH, summer, heat, Holsum Bakery, Goddard Bakery, Country Kitchen,
 
#Poetry #bakery #factory #industrial #dough #rolls #oven #bread #mixer #work #memories #ClaremontNH #summer #heat #HolsumBakery
 
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Poetry, bakery, factory, industrial, dough, rolls, oven, Claremont, NH, summer, heat, Holsum Bakery,
 
#Poetry #industrial #bakery #breadfactory #rolls #oven #ClaremontNH #summer #heat #HolsumBakery
 
-----------------
Poetry, bakery, bread factory, bread oven, hands, callouses, gloves, Claremont, NH, summer, heat, Holsum Bakery,
 
#Poetry #bakery #breadfactory #breadoven #hands #callouses #gloves #ClaremontNH #summer #heat #HolsumBakery
 

Two shirts hanging

Two shirts hanging,
by the mouth of the oven,
drying sweat stiff, a line,
mixing with flour, the yeast.
 
Sister Sledge on the overhead,
the radio looping, repeating,
“We are Family”, while we labored,
sweat running down our cheeks.

-----------------
February 24, 2024
Two shirts hanging
 
Sweating at the roll oven,
No door to the oven,
no exhaust hood…
&
February 23, 2024
Making the dough
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/making-dough.html
The mixing room on the top floor
of Holsum Bakery (formerly Goddard Bakery)
Maple Street, Claremont, NH,
Summer of 1979,
after my first year of college.
I worked 14 weeks on the roll oven
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, bakery, factory, industrial, dough, rolls, oven, bread, mixer, work, memories, Claremont, NH, summer, heat, Holsum Bakery, Goddard Bakery, Country Kitchen,
 
#Poetry #bakery #factory #industrial #dough #rolls #oven #bread #mixer #work #memories #ClaremontNH #summer #heat #HolsumBakery
 
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Poetry, bakery, factory, industrial, dough, rolls, oven, Claremont, NH, summer, heat, Holsum Bakery,
 
#Poetry #industrial #bakery #breadfactory #rolls #oven #ClaremontNH #summer #heat #HolsumBakery

Making the dough #bakery #dough

Not what we imagine,
nothing so pretty,
our expectation,
what is your image,
when I say the word bakery,
what comes to mind?
 
Making the dough,
in batches of 300 pounds,
for rolls, 500 for bread,
a giant mixer on its side,
doors opening like lips.
 
A coal-car, a trough,
rolling across the floor,
a shoot, gravity, the weight,
pulling the dough downward,
into the maw of the machine
above the floor below.

-----------------
February 23, 2024
Making the dough
 
The mixing room on the top floor
of Holsum Bakery (formerly Goddard Bakery)
Maple Street, Claremont, NH,
Summer of 1979,
after my first year of college.
I worked 14 weeks on the roll oven
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, bakery, factory, industrial, dough, rolls, bread, mixer, work, memories, Claremont, NH, summer, heat,
 
#Poetry #bakery #factory #industrial #dough #rolls #bread #mixer #work #memories #ClaremontNH #summer #heat

I can remember his hands

I can remember his hands,
though it has been forty years,
already 18 years at 36
constant, repetitive motion,
one pan in another removed;
Blast of the bread oven
his hands orange, calluses,
No need for gloves.
 
--------------

December 19, 2021

I can remember his hands

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/i-can-remember-his-hands.html

1979 Holsum Bakery

Claremont, New Hampshire

 

poetry, work, bakery, bread factory, calluses, hands, labor, memory,

 

#poetry #work #bakery #breadfactory #calluses #hands #labor #memory

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Butter Melting – v2

She marched into the kitchen

all purposeful and proud

step stool from the bathroom

in her four-year-old arms

“I’m going to watch the butter melt!”

she proclaimed to all the world,

or at least to me at the sink;.

Two sticks of butter in the clear glass bowl,

not yet ready for their joining with the other ingredients

for a planned batch of sugar cookies -

Sitting unmoved on the counter, defiantly not melting,

because Shanequa made that statement, I’m sure!

“What a wonderfully exciting life you have…”

I laughed to myself to her left

watching butter melt…

and then she said, “I can see it melting!”

I wonder if she really did,

if something in her child’s mind

could grasp the infinitesimal movement of the cells,

the molecules of the butter, the sticks,

in the bowl, on the counter;

waiting, maybe wanting,

to be something bigger than itself

to meld with the rest

to form our treats

To tickle her tongue,

after the making, the baking,

once the frosting, the sprinkles,

and the special “wham” from her older sister

sealed in their goodness

===============

edited March 8, 2018

Butter Melting – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/03/butter-melting-v2.html

after finding this poem in a list of my popular poems

on Literary Devices site about my poetry

https://literarydevices.net/raymond-a-foss/

May 17, 2006 6:47am

Butter Melting

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.jp/2006/05/butter-melting.html

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butter, melting, baking, anticipation, waiting, childhood, innocence, purpose, Shanequa, Shyanne, wonder, physics, heat, molecules, science, cooking, child, God, poem, poetry,

#butter #melting #baking #anticipation #waiting #childhood #innocence #purpose #Shanequa #Shyanne #wonder #memory #physics #heat #molecules #science #cooking #child #creator #faithpoetry #frost #God #laugh #life #poem #poetry #PoetryWhereYouLive #praisepoems #praisepoetry #RaymondAFoss