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If you could eat something inedible, like an object or a memory or a feeling, what would it taste like? [Photo by JR Korpa, Unsplash]

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Jan 25

poetry challenge: Taste

sharkcuddles

Memories

My memories criss cross
Across
The endless space of my brain.
They’re sticky.
They carry weight.
My memories of the house
Carry the taste of roasted marshmallows,
Piping hot.
My memories of before
Taste like challah,
golden and soft.
My memories criss cross
Across
The endless space of my brain.
They taste like home.

Posted: 01.25.22

Nov 16

poetry challenge: Taste

emi_art_now

The taste of a dream

The first bite could taste like a candied cloud,
Moving to a rich collection of unknown spices,
A labrinth,
To follow to a place you might know.
A taste you might know.
Do you get Deja vu?
The taste now washed out by a sad sour feeling,
That rips through your whole body to jolt you awake.
Each taste still lingers in your mouth.
You'll never really get it out.

Posted: 11.16.21

Oct 14

fiction challenge: Taste

Summit House-WCS

Tasting Emotions

I think if we were to taste feelings, fear would taste like white chocolate(which in my opinion is disgusting by the way), sickeningly sweet, and nauseating. Surprise would taste like a lemon, like the way the sourness of the lemon is kind of sudden, but the lemon would taste sweet depending on the kind of surprise you’re feeling. If it's a good surprise, it would taste sweet. If it’s a bad surprise, it would be extra sour. Maybe surprise would also taste like those gusher candies. Joy would taste like some kind of fruit, bright and sweet. Maybe like an orange? Sadness would taste bitter, like tea without sugar. Anger would taste like hot sauce. Disgust would taste like over-chewed gum.

Posted: 10.14.21

Oct 14

poetry challenge: Taste

FinnTheCreator

A Relationship Like Dark Chocolate

Our friendship was much like the first time you give a young child a piece of dark Chocolate. They taste it for the first time while telling themselves "This is chocolate. It should be sweet" but then recoil at the sudden bitterness of it. But maybe that was just that bite? Maybe if they try it again it will be sweeter. Maybe. But it doesn't. But the child keeps trying it over and over again, determined to enjoy what should be enjoyable. Because it should be, right?

Posted: 10.14.21

Oct 12

fiction challenge: Taste

Summit House-WCS

Taste a Rainbow

If I could eat anything inedible there would be so many things I would want to taste, to feel on my tongue, to chew. Some examples include my Nanna, bouncy balls, and friendships. But the first thing I would eat would be a rainbow. I would want to eat rainbows for so many different reasons. For example, rainbows would taste like anything and everything all rolled into one. They would also give you a feeling of nostalgia each time you ate it. Bringing you back to your childhood, when times were simpler, and you had very little responsibility. Rainbows would taste sweet yet a little sour of an aftertaste to represent rainbows fading away on a cool, fall day. They would taste cool yet refreshing, like lemonade on a hot summer day. I would pull out a piece of a rainbow like plucking cotton candy from the stick. I’d place it on my tongue, so gingerly, then let it sit and melt on my tongue for just a minute. And somehow, someway, the rainbow would almost electrify your body and your skin.

Posted: 10.12.21

Oct 12

fiction challenge: Taste

Summit House-WCS

Sunset

When I think of something that I wish I could eat but can’t I think about a sunset. If you think about it, most food that looks really good tastes good. So I think that a sunset would taste great. How I imagine it to taste is. Starting off with the light bright sun with a little bit of orange taste but the texture of ice cream. It would slowly melt in your mouth making you want more. Then you would take a bite of the pink, blue and orange sky that would taste a bit like cotton candy with a hint of strawberry, maple and blueberry. That taste would just encompass your mouth making you take another bite. But now it was time for the mountains, you think that it couldn't get any better than what you have already had. But then you bite into it and you were wrong so so so so so wrong. It would be like biting into heaven. The chocolate is hard but soft enough that your teeth slide right through it. The milk chocolate was smooth then wait, there was more... Is that caramel filling, ya it was.

Posted: 10.12.21

Oct 12

fiction challenge: Taste

Summit House-WCS

Metcalf Pond

When I went to Metcalf Pond (Camp Ginger) I would spontaneously take out my phone and take pictures of literally anything. One of my favorites was the pond that we were on. It looked more like a small lake than a pond. I loved taking pictures of it when there were no boats speeding on it anymore. Because it was all still and you could see the reflection of the trees and the cabin/houses. Like if it was asleep. As if the water had a nice heavy blanket on top of it making it sleep soundly. I loved taking pictures, especially when there was a sunset.

Posted: 10.12.21

Oct 12

poetry challenge: Taste

Summit House-WCS

I Wonder What Joy Tastes Like?

I wonder what joy tastes like?

Do you think it tastes like cotton candy?

Or even sprinkles?

What if it tasted like jelly beans?

What if it is a liquid?

Like chocolate milk!

Or even Orange juice?

Would that be good?

What if joy tasted bad?

Like brussel sprouts?

Or even asparagus?

What if it has a despicable taste?

What if it tasted like nothing?

If you could not taste joy would you not feel it?

What if joy has no taste?

Do you think joy can have a good taste?

Maybe just maybe we can taste it just by feeling it?

Maybe it tastes like a big chocolate cake!

Or even a big ice cream sundae!

Or a browning with frosting and sprinkles on it!

I guess I will never taste joy.

Posted: 10.12.21

Oct 08

poetry challenge: Taste

Peter Gustafson

Happiness

Happiness

Joy

A feeling

But now I taste it

It’s a sweet golden brown

Looks like a moist cake

I take a bite

And swallow

The sweetness erupts in my mouth

It tastes like golden honey

And sweet blueberries

I see

Bluebells and Sunflowers and Daisys

When I swallow

The colors dance in my vision

Happiness has a funny taste

I cannot wait

To try it again

Posted: 10.08.21

Oct 07

opinion challenge: Taste

frankoceanwhere...

Tide Pods

If there was one thing inedible I could taste, it would probably be Tide Pods. You know, the little plastic packages containing laundry detergent. I know, I know, you’re probably thinking, “Aren’t those toxic chemicals that you shouldn’t put in your body?” and yes. Yes they are.

Remember that trend around 2016, the Tide Pod challenge? If you don’t, teenagers all over the country were videoing themselves eating the inedibly delicious morsels, and posting them on the internet. I remember having to agree with people saying that it was dumb, or irresponsible, but now, I’m speaking my truth. I understand the craze around the little things. Even though I never participated in the trend, and I’ve never once eaten a Tide Pod, I think, no, I know that it would taste fruity, and the texture would be almost like jelly. Anyways, that’s my take on things that I shouldn’t eat, things that I shouldn’t want to eat, and things that I really want to eat.

Posted: 10.07.21

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