Guilty Pleasures
Not dark chocolate, peanut butter or
anything edible; not silk or chrome
or anything tangible; no gold ore,
silver medallions or anything bone;
no banal evening guiltily indulged
in and gone; no apology whispered,
nor promise betrayed; no treasure divulged,
nor business deal skillfully maneuvered;
no bold deity that needs appeasing,
nor ancient text whose sight invites thieving–
True though all of those items are pleasing,
once had, they’re gone and that leads to grieving.
He takes his pleasures from things eternal,
whose use doesn’t reduce the original.
~ ~ ~
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “No Apologies” and “Hate to Love.”
Wonderful, although you put the rest of us to shame! Beautifully said!
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Thank you! I do love my guilty pleasures 🙂
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Yes, I see now by your comments that that person was not yourself!
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No the narrator of the poem was lecturing me on my guilty pleasures and their emptiness.
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Ah, so you are a party to the shallowness of the rest of us. Such a relief. It was a beautiful, poem, though, and something we call all hope to attain. Perhaps when we are so old that all the guilty pleasures fall away.
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I sincerely hope so! I am striving to limit those guilty pleasures though. Woman can’t live on chocolate, peanut butter and dessert alone. 🙂
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Dark chocolate! 😍 love this sonnet~ thanks for sharing(:
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Ahh.. reminded me of Brad Pitt eating peanut butter as Joe Black 🙂
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I forgot about that! I included peanut butter because it’s my guilty pleasure.
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Mine too! And Nutella! 🙊🙊🙊
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🙂
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Beautifully written💕Although peanut butter is one of mine😉
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You and me both. Though I’m trying to tone down the obsession.
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Lol, good luck on that one😉💕
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Thanks I need it! I hear it calling me from my house 45 minute away!
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