Challenge: The perfect ten.

[Tathagata]

Some day soon
I'll do
the sleep of the dead

 

[Sappholovers]

Line from Sappho

"I love that which caresses me"

Sappho

 

[Sappholovers]

"Advice" by Langston Hughes

"Advice"

Folks, I'm telling you
Birthing is hard
Dying is mean
So get yourself
A little loving in between

Langston Hughes

 

[Sappholovers]

Chocolate Mousse for Tristesse

More advice:

Eat ambiguity for dessert


The best desserts are ambiguous in texture, in that limbo space between soft and hard, liquid and solid, like chocolate mousse or creme brule or honey or berries, or like a morning cock awakening from its slumbers

Here's a recipe for Chocolate Wickedness, an intensified chocolate mousse

1 1/2 pounds semisweet chocolate
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup espresso coffee
1/2 cup creme de cacao
8 egg whites
Pinch of salt
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup heavy cream, whipped

Melt the chocolate in a heavy saucepan over water. Add the egg yolks, espresso, and creme de cacao. Stir together till smooth. (If the mixture hardens, warm gently and stir till smooth. Then let cool.) Beat the egg whites with salt till they hold soft peaks. Add the sugar, a tablespoon at a time, beating after each addition. Continue beating 5 more minutes, or until stiff. Fold the whipped cream into the egg whites and then fold in the chocolate mixture. Pour into a large glass bowl or a soufflé dish with a waxed-paper collar (or covered jar if it's just for late night fixes) and store in the freezer until 15 minutes before serving.(It's great frozen, too.) If you have time to be fancy, serve with a sauce made by blending 1 cup heavy cream, whipped into soft peaks, with 1/2 cup sour cream and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

 

[Guest]

Re: Chocolate Mousse for Tristesse

More advice:

Eat ambiguity for dessert


The best desserts are ambiguous in texture, in that limbo space between soft and hard, liquid and solid, like chocolate mousse or creme brule or honey or berries, or like a morning cock awakening from its slumbers

Here's a recipe for Chocolate Wickedness, an intensified chocolate mousse

1 1/2 pounds semisweet chocolate
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup espresso coffee
1/2 cup creme de cacao
8 egg whites
Pinch of salt
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup heavy cream, whipped

Melt the chocolate in a heavy saucepan over water. Add the egg yolks, espresso, and creme de cacao. Stir together till smooth. (If the mixture hardens, warm gently and stir till smooth. Then let cool.) Beat the egg whites with salt till they hold soft peaks. Add the sugar, a tablespoon at a time, beating after each addition. Continue beating 5 more minutes, or until stiff. Fold the whipped cream into the egg whites and then fold in the chocolate mixture. Pour into a large glass bowl or a soufflé dish with a waxed-paper collar (or covered jar if it's just for late night fixes) and store in the freezer until 15 minutes before serving.(It's great frozen, too.) If you have time to be fancy, serve with a sauce made by blending 1 cup heavy cream, whipped into soft peaks, with 1/2 cup sour cream and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

Thank you, it looks delish! You're full of surprises, aren't you?

 

[Tathagata]

Re: Re: Chocolate Mousse for Tristesse

Thank you, it looks delish! You're full of surprises, aren't you?

Tris, You need a shave sweetie

 

[Angeline]

Re: "Advice" by Langston Hughes

"Advice"

Folks, I'm telling you
Birthing is hard
Dying is mean
So get yourself
A little loving in between

Langston Hughes

Two thumbs up
Langston's dream
always deferred
in graceful blue

 

[Angeline]

for Sappholovers

Langston, Pablo, Octavio
sensual truth spread
on poems like honey

 

[Hisownprecious]

lash out

flash back

crash down

smash

shatter

flee

child

~~~~~~~~

water rushes

mountains watching

slippery rocks

going under

finally

relief

 

[Guest]

Eagle's have
such unlikely cries.
Like a baby bird
calling.

One flies
in a clear
blue sky.
hanging
on thermals.

Another sits
motionless
on a snag
watching
the sailboats jive.

 

[Merrymaker]

~~~~~~~~

water rushes

mountains watching

slippery rocks

going under

finally

relief

This reminded me of a trip to the river, and watching the little birds busy at work while we humans relaxed.

~
Swallows dip and dive
sips of river build a home

 

[Lostdriver1964]

High hopes

They come close
then fly away
high Hopes never stay.

 

[Zanzibar]

Why D D?

perplexing chaos churning

conspicuous criticism

androgynous anonymity

 

[Merrymaker]

Pose for me
Yeah,
Like that
Perfect in my eyes.

 

[Tathagata]

Pose for me
Yeah,
Like that
Perfect in my eyes.

a vague idea of perfection
then
I see
your smile

 

[Merrymaker]

a vague idea of perfection
then
I see
your smile

Captured on film
For every essence
Forever fantasy
Pure illusion

 

[Tathagata]

Captured on film
For every essence
Forever fantasy
Pure illusion

every essence
captured on film
a window
into your soul

 

[Guest]

Summer smells
of B.B.Q.
white hot coals
under rare steaks.

Summer tastes
of cold
white
wine
and
icy
Pipers
beer.

Summer sights
of seething sun
and shady
wide-brimmed hats.

 

[eagleyez]

manzanita
scrub
under
big
western
doorsteps

mysterious
mountains

morning
rivers.

 

[JCSTREET]

YOUR EMAILS

an explosion of flowers her
emails, a

conflagration
of rare-petalled foldings

one by one I butterfly their labial leaves to extract
the nectar
of her enigmatic song

 

[Liar]

scorching insinuations
backlashed blues
fire with fire
bring the
blamethrower

 

[Guest]

how many mouths?
three?
four?
I hear them,
Feed me!

 

[darkmaas]

ten
dark and fluffy words
do not a haiku make

 

[OT]

cruel
floating tranquil above
the hungry.
wish the fish luck

 

[Guest]

hungry eyes
eye your worm.
I do too
and squirm.