Today Bjorn is Pubtender and is prompting us to write impressionist poetry, based on impressionist paintings. Splashes of color, some scents, some cooking, some blurred edges – all the hallmarks of the great Impressionists, including Claude Monet. Come visit us at the Pub and view the artisitic offerings: Meet the Bar with impressionism
Water Lilies in the Kitchen
In the lemon yellow kitchen
Sunday dinner is being prepared.
aromas of fried chicken and pot roast
mingle with scents of onion, celery, bell peppers
and the sizzle of the fried chicken competes with
the sound of birds outside.
through the wide window framed with red maple
and blue and white curtains
the bright jade green summer lawn
runs to meet the azure sky.
The heavy leafed trees comb
the sky clear of purest white clouds.
Inside the kitchen
the tender green perfume of freshly cut herbs
float on the heavier scents
like water lilies on a pond.
Water lilies – detail from Claude Monet
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Mar 16, 2017 @ 15:21:22
i really loved how you made the scents to colors… especially love the simile of the scent of herbs being like the lilies on a pond.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 15:28:53
Thank you Bjorn. It is an image I have been carrying in my head for several years and this prompt brought it out.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 15:36:01
I love the way you’ve capture not only colour but also scents and sounds. I want to be in that lemon yellow kitchen with you, Toni!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 15:38:30
Come on Kim! It’s big enough for a crowd!!!.. except when I am canning or preserving. Then there’s only room enough for me and one helper.
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Mar 16, 2017 @ 16:20:48
I like the sounds of the kitchen competing with the birds, the blue and white curtains framing the grass and trees outside, and the scent of fresh herbs floating like water lilies in a pool of scent.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:20:30
Thank you Frank!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 16:30:11
This is a delight for the senses! And now I’m feeling peckish 😉
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:20:09
I’ll send you some nice summer tomatoes….
Mar 16, 2017 @ 16:52:09
Oh my! Such a lovely picture you’ve painted for us. Beautiful.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:19:44
Thank you Beverly!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 17:16:27
Oh, I like the purest white clouds reflection and the perfume of freshly cut herbs!
How nice to see Monet outside your kitchen window, Toni.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:19:28
Thank you Kathy. I see Monet everywhere, to be honest.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 17:24:28
Really nice. The wide window frame is a hard division but it makes for an excellent transition from smells to colors. Well done!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:18:56
Thank you!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 17:34:57
Your involvement of the senses–scent and vision especially–are just outstanding and I’m about to drool on my laptop.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:18:41
Drool away my friend! Wait till you see the prompt for Haibun Monday!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 17:43:30
Heavenly food like waterlilies on a pond – divine feast Toni !
Mar 16, 2017 @ 17:52:30
Your piece is sterling, genuine painting with words, in short bursts; wonderful, kicked the socks off the prompt. I like the lines /the heavy leafed trees comb/the sky year of purist white clouds/.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:18:13
Tank you for your kind words Glenn.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 18:52:39
Will you adopt me? Can I come and live in your kitchen? this certainly fills the prompt.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:17:37
LOL. I’ve seen the pic you posted of your kitchen and it seems like a pretty nice place to me! But yes, you can get on the adoption rotation. 🙂
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:47:28
thank you. Can I bring a deserving cat?
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:48:28
And a deserving dog and chicken….
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:57:40
as long as we don’t fry the chicken . LOL!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 23:00:29
No. we’ll fry a stranger from up North…
Mar 17, 2017 @ 01:54:10
lol….anyone in particular? I’m game.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 19:06:17
My mother’s kitchen was lemon yellow…thanks for the wonderful aromas here!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:16:45
I have always been of the mind that kitchens should always be lemon yellow…unless they are butter yellow!
Mar 16, 2017 @ 19:11:35
love the way scents translated into colours – that was so original and how cooking should be, colours, textures, smells and lots of sprinkling from outdoors to inside that infuse the senses with desire for food and to be fully satisfied.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:16:05
Thank you. Food and cooking have been important to me since I had to stand in a chair to watch my father cook.
Mar 17, 2017 @ 00:50:35
My youngest son loves to cook and used to do just that, watch me in the kitchen, high stool peering over the stove and smelling the ingredients and touching them before I put them in. He will be in training as a chef after high school. I am tickled to imagine you doing that as a child, it brings such lovely memories of my own to mind.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:08:36
A window to a beautiful place. Thank you, Ma’am.
Mar 16, 2017 @ 22:14:29
Thank you sir! It is good to know you are still around.
Mar 17, 2017 @ 00:35:44
Yum! And I giggled a little at the comparison between fried birds and singing ones. Lovely dinner feeling.
Mar 17, 2017 @ 03:25:27
“The heavy leafed trees comb
the sky clear of purest white clouds.”
The lovely phrases and the imagery. ❤
Mar 17, 2017 @ 06:34:06
the tender green perfume of freshly cut herbs
float on the heavier scents
like water lilies on a pond.
One can almost feel the heaviness of perfumery scents permeating the air!
Hank
Mar 17, 2017 @ 10:08:14
wonderful marriage of inside and out through the connection of smells and tstes and colours…evocative and tasty
Mar 17, 2017 @ 20:37:12
I especially love way you’ve subtly personified nature in this piece…”the bright jade green summer lawn runs to meet the azure sky” and “heavy leafed trees comb
the sky”. A wonderful sensory experience inside and outside your kitchen!
Mar 17, 2017 @ 20:42:14
Thank you so much Mish!
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Mar 18, 2017 @ 12:14:40
Food and nature, my favorite colors!