Poet Challenge of the Day: Rhyming Poem Related to Kitchen Item
Kitchen Knife
I visited a relative in another land, in another life ...
He shared this: "Home without wife is like kitchen without knife!"
At first, I thought I understood what he tried to convey;
Knives have been used "to Bobbit" - per Lorena against her hubby?
Yes, it may be hard to think one's kitchen is complete
If one lacks a variety of knives; pot and fork can't compete
With the essential place of this item, with a silent "K"
Perhaps it sounds more noble, even knightly
To say "K-N-I-F-E" when "N-I-F-E" is the pronunciation
After all, we do not say "I-T-C-H-E-N" for "kitchen"
Yet this culinary weapon of choice is indispensable:
Pot, fork, spoon ... even stoves may be optional
For a knife will slice veggies and bread (got at the bakery);
Make you a sandwich (a hot one, with fowl cooked rotisserie)
And thus a kitchen with nothing but a knife
Is like a wife who is barely clinging to life
The husband may become that sturdy item of cutlery
That will make things happen, in kitchens empty
Of all essentials but this powerful K-N-I-F-E (spelling aside):
Therefore, watch your similes ... and stay sharper than your bride!
He shared this: "Home without wife is like kitchen without knife!"
At first, I thought I understood what he tried to convey;
Knives have been used "to Bobbit" - per Lorena against her hubby?
Yes, it may be hard to think one's kitchen is complete
If one lacks a variety of knives; pot and fork can't compete
With the essential place of this item, with a silent "K"
Perhaps it sounds more noble, even knightly
To say "K-N-I-F-E" when "N-I-F-E" is the pronunciation
After all, we do not say "I-T-C-H-E-N" for "kitchen"
Yet this culinary weapon of choice is indispensable:
Pot, fork, spoon ... even stoves may be optional
For a knife will slice veggies and bread (got at the bakery);
Make you a sandwich (a hot one, with fowl cooked rotisserie)
And thus a kitchen with nothing but a knife
Is like a wife who is barely clinging to life
The husband may become that sturdy item of cutlery
That will make things happen, in kitchens empty
Of all essentials but this powerful K-N-I-F-E (spelling aside):
Therefore, watch your similes ... and stay sharper than your bride!
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- A fun way to write about a knife, yet non-poets and poets have used the most innocent of household
- items to draw blood, or seek revenge, sometimes to avenge or "right" some wrong! Husbands or male
- partners can play the indispensable role of the knife in an otherwise bare kitchen. See why, below.
Could we not use just one item, a knife, to prepare meals in our kitchens? It slices bread, tomatoes, rotisserie chicken to make sandwiches. So make do without pots, crockery & cutlery ... so long as you have a trusted knife!
5 Comments
Post a Commentoh my so clever you are love it!
Clever...not cleaver!
I loved it very different indeed
Well written, like your style of writing.
Very creative,nice poem.