Winner of the March Food Poetry Competition!

Congratulations to Zaina Budaly who has won March's Food Poetry Competition! I hope the following poem inspires my reader's to pick up a pen and send in some food poetry! Well done to Zaina again, here is her poem:

The Sugar Tong Collector

There was something about them

picking up clustered sweetness

then set free in the perfervid

liquid.  Many times I watched

him behind net curtains, torn

by my longing, wild fingers.

They could have been Georgian

or once stroked by Her Majesty’s

painted fingernails; silver plated,

imbedded in skin and shiny as

mirrors.  Snaked writhed

like long hair in water meeting

a diamond ball at its peak.  Priceless

it was, the catastrophic way diamonds

crumbled when compressed; granulated, once

cast from a mould.  “Elizabeth I,” he sighed.

Even an oval-shaped sun, once cast from a tong

could not stun me.  I cried for attention, punching

 the sprinkled floorboards.  His words took

hold like water, soothed the burning coal,

left me fumbling for my own.

Zaina Budaly

Please look out for the next update informing you of the April's competition.