Wednesday 7 January 2009

custard


[inspired by the latest prompt at one single impression]

22 comments:

Amias (ljm and liquidplastic) said...

love your presentation ---

Cassiopeia Rises said...

This is great use of word prompt. Love your Haiku.


love-bd

Unknown said...

Love this. Brings lots of smiley memories for me.

SandyCarlson said...

Yes, oh yes. It amazes me what images the word Sunday evokes, let alone the image of a shard dessert.

Anonymous said...

mmm love custard.

Crafty Green Poet said...

oh I love the custard skin, excellent evocative haiku

Anonymous said...

I am the only one here who likes custard, so I get it!

Anonymous said...

delicious!

Tumblewords: said...

Lots of memories trapped in this piece. Love it - your work always sings!

Masago said...

Ha!!!

Beth P. said...

dang delightful!

Susan Richardson said...

Brilliant haiku!

John McDonald said...

loved them all as usual jem
john

Bill said...

A great father-daughter moment (I only had sons).

polona said...

lovely sentiment.

Lucy Corrander said...

Such a familiar situation.

My mother organised a custard skin rota which hung on the kitchen wall.

Lucy Corrander
PICTURES JUST PICTURES

Lucy Corrander said...

p.s. What a wonderful concept for a blog!

Lucy

Unknown said...

Oh, I've got too much to catch up with here, I've been away too lon ;)

jem said...

Thanks for so many lovely responses - I never knew that custard skin was so popular!

spacedlaw said...

A good moment, a great memory.

Anonymous said...

Excellent poem - pitch perfect, encompassing an entire history in those short lines.

Brian Pike said...

Going back over your blog today I returned to this as one of my very favourites. The choice of the rumpled Post-It note is sheer genius!