Poem: "The Chocolate Chip Country"

[jjhunter]

Posted on behalf of stryck

The Chocolate Chip Country

Oh won't you come with me
To the chocolate chip country?
There the marshmallow fluff birds fly
Across a hardcrack sky.

The children chase the gumdrop lights
of lightning bugs on summer nights,
And cinnamon dusts the butterfly wings
That're caught in nets of licorice strings.

Oh won't you come with me
To the chocolate chip country?
There the candyfloss flowers grow
Planted in smiles and bows.

Where every bend of a rainbow will
Yield seven flavors when distilled,
And sugar swans swim around and round
Where the taffy top cattails are found.

Oh won't you come with me
To the chocolate chip country?
There the caramel kitty-cats yawn
Snoozing in spearmint lawn.


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This poem was written for a Poetry Kitchen request. I liked it so much that I renamed my livejournal The Chocolate Chip Country. >.> I had a tune in mind when writing the poem. You can listen a quiet and not too bad recording of me singing it here.

Comments

[herlander_refugee]

Oh, perfect timing! Just as I begin to dust off cookbooks for peanut brittle and other delights...

I made chocolate-chip "sliver" cookies last week. I used the chile-tinged chocolate sliced into thin bits and made cookies for "Devil's Night" for the family's ritual re-watching of The Crow!

[stryck.livejournal.com]

Was the chili just in the chocolate, or is there some in the batter, too?

[herlander_refugee]

Just in the chocolate---used chocolate bars with chile peppers and cut them up small.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I am reminded of the Bigrock Candy Mountains.

Re: Yay!

[stryck.livejournal.com]

That was the sort of tradition I had in mind when writing this, though I think this poem is more innocent.

[aldersprig]

I do still love this! :-D