From the collection The Immediate and No Sooner, 2021.
Shadorma 274
2/21/20
three people
on a winter day
knit in white
go nowhere
but not fast enough for you
and your tight schedule
Haiku 815
2/28/20
hidden in the weeds
semi-retired garden gnome
long past ambition
Haiku 816
2/28/20
when you ask me why
I baked you this surprise cake
the answer is love
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
These made me smile–especially the first haiku, and the second haiku made me say “awww!” I’m doing lots of love baking.
I am doing a love myself baking today, I felt the snow scene called for a lemon cake. My husband can certainly have some, but it’s for me!
Oooo–enjoy!
I baked a lemon cake a few days ago for daughter’s birthday. Flourless chocolate cake today for me and Valentine; baking another lemon cake tomorrow for mother-in-law’s birthday, and later in the week something else for husband’s birthday. Other child lives too far away, or they would be getting a birthday cake, too.
I would like to get on your list. My birthday is in November (for your records). !!!!
😏
I think baking is always an act of love. (K)
I believe it can be so in intention, but some people (my mother), it’s just not the language they speak or even want to – she often said, what’s the point, you just eat it up and it’s gone! Her sewing was more how she could express herself – she said, a well-made outfit will last you forever.
That’s interesting about your mother. I don’t bake at all myself, but the people I know who are always baking do it for love. But she was right about sewing.
#816 is so true! That’s what is on the agenda for today – because birthdays and Valentine’s day…
Yes. Cakes for special occasions (although a cake can make any day special, I think!)
Baking is definitely an act of love and always tastes better when it is connected to those positive, nurturing emotions – or maybe that is just my experience of baking. I love the central poem and the idea of the gnome slipping into retirement by just gradually withdrawing from public view.
Thank you. Those little gnomes, I have always loved garden ornaments but gnomes seem to have the most defined “culture” or personality to uphold. I was prompted to write this by the sight of a gnome kind of hiding under a bush (or so it looked to me).