Poetry

Watching the Food Network, I saw a commercial for Dole Salad with Clinton Kelly.  He said there was a contest where you could write in something about salad that inspires you and win a trip to California. I thought, hey what the heck, I can write something up!

So I went to the contest page and read through the rules.  You needed to write a 350 word entry about how salad inspires you.  So I wrote up this awesome thing, tried to paste it into the submission box, and it didn't work.  I read again, and it said 350 CHARACTERS.  Yikes!  How was I going to condense all that into a paragraph?  Ah, I thought, a poem.

I wrote up a little poem in the submission box to make sure I didn't  go over my character limit, read it over, and submitted it.  I let my husband read it and he said, wow, I didn't know you could write like that, I bet you are going to win.  I thought he was just being polite.

A week later I got a call.  I had been chosen as a finalist!  Voting would be on facebook, and six winners would be chosen by popular vote to go to California on a 3 day culinary adventure.  Oh my gosh!

So!  Here it is, the poem that won me a slot in the finals:

Were I Able

Taste is priceless, more lovely than words

Sensations to tickle the senses and more

Crisp are the leaves, so fresh and so light

That bring me to dine on a warm summer night

Wish that I could taste, not only to smell,

But health troubles forbade me, desires to quell

Oh lovely the sight of the dressing I see,

One day we shall dine, my salad and me.

Even if I don't win, I had a lot of fun writing it, and hey, it's great to be recognized!  But I will keep you posted!