Sound of Peppermint Bottle
Still life, Peppermint Bottle
Cézanne looks; I hear
peppermint bottle
chocolate block
red toffee apple
clip clippety clop
rubber plantation
prelude to power
carnation, lactation
molten glass
tube
salt spray, Esperance
butter batter bitter with a squeeze of lemon
savouring words
sound and association
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Note: Cézanne’s Still Life, Peppermint Bottle is reproduced here from Wikimedia Commons.
NutherNote: I got the idea of this poem from blogging artist extraordinaire Aletha Kuschan. She is a big Cézanne fan and had been inspired by a detail in his Peppermint Bottle to paint apples. Thanks Aletha 🙂
AndNutherNote: When I was a scruffy school kid I used to write down my favourite words. I think chocolate was at the top of the list (ahhh what a consonant and vowel combination; plus an association with a textured and tasty treat that I was rarely allowed to eat 😉 ).
Do you have favourite words?
Do tell!
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October 15, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Some poems have such an air about them that before you can finish the reading…you’re smiling …poems like this one.
October 17, 2012 at 9:48 am
Glad to make you smile Charles – thank you kindly 🙂
October 15, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I like the shape of this poem, very clever!
Juliet
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
October 17, 2012 at 9:48 am
Thanks Juliet 🙂
October 15, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Great clip art Gabe 😉
and I enjoyed reading loud your poem!
October 17, 2012 at 9:49 am
Yes, I was surprised to find that it was able to be freely copied Ben 🙂 It is a good poem to read out loud – in fact, it must be read out loud!
October 17, 2012 at 10:54 pm
yes, I should have said reading out loud…thanks. 😉
October 18, 2012 at 6:49 am
You can say it both ways Ben – ‘reading loud’ is proper in a sentence in English or ‘reading out loud’ – I wasn’t meaning to correct you 😉
October 18, 2012 at 11:41 pm
I know you are not bossy with my English 😉 but it is a good way for me to improve when I see you rephrasing what I said.
October 16, 2012 at 1:23 am
cezanne is one of my favorite painters too, i just loved seeing this again, and the poem is wonderful – it’s a great complement, and a compliment too, to cezanne, to art
i love ‘coconut’, ‘bliss’, and oddly ‘cellar door’ among many others. i’d be in bliss having chocolate with coconut outside the cellar door 🙂
October 17, 2012 at 9:53 am
hahaha – too funny tipota 🙂 I love all your words – cellar door reminds me of celadon which is a favourite word (and colour) of mine. Coconut has wonderful connotations and when I hear it I can smell coconut oil (which then reminds me of being in the sun on a tropical island slathered in coconut oil sunscreen and drinking something tropical from a coconut cup with a straw and tiny umbrella decorations – haha) – ah what bliss ….
October 16, 2012 at 3:36 am
How wonderful that Cezanne has inspired your poem. I find a lot of similarity between his work and these words also — in the intensity of each word you’ve chosen in terms of sound and appearance and how they resemble Cezanne’s placement of separated color patches on the canvas, each one very specific and focused and intense. And in their ensemble also a deep structured sensibility and emotion.
October 17, 2012 at 9:55 am
what a wonderful comment Aletha – 5/5 for that one – and isn’t ensemble are marvellous word which for some reason reminds me of comfy pillows – haha – thank you Aletha (when I run out of ideas I can always look at your blog for them – and Benedicte’s blog and tipota’s blog and Rick’s blog etc., – all the wonderful blogging artists who I have stumbled upon in the blogosphere).
October 16, 2012 at 7:26 am
Love the Cezanne AND the Bryden, Gabrielle…
October 17, 2012 at 9:56 am
You are too kind Kate 🙂 thank you
October 16, 2012 at 8:29 am
This rolls deliciously on the tongue, like the confections listed.
I am addicted to alliteration. Simply scrumptious or delightfully delicious are words which of themselves get my taste buds jumping around in excited anticipation.
October 17, 2012 at 9:57 am
hahaha – alliteration is fun and scrumptious is a lovely fat word ready to be eaten 🙂 thanks colonialist!
October 16, 2012 at 4:22 pm
This has such bounce Gabe! Really gallops along. Favourite words… fishing would have to be right up there for me!
October 17, 2012 at 9:59 am
hahaha – should have known Graham – smoked salmon is another word combo that does it for me!
October 16, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Ooh, I love the puh and cuh sounds in your poem, and the synaesthetic effect of all the wonderful words in it.
Growing up in SA, I loved certain words from Zulu – scabenga (ratbag), indaba (business), haibo! (an exclamation which expresses surprise), tokoloshe (a sort of Gollum-like creature bringing bad luck) – and from Afrikaans, my favourite was pantoffel (pronounced puntoffal) which means slipper. My best friend from school used to love saying, “rhododendron” 🙂 We’re all weird…
October 17, 2012 at 10:03 am
lots of round vowel sounds there bluebee – love it! Specially love the tokoloshe word – great rhythm; and doesn’t pantoffel have a sweet soft sound to it, like a slipper is soft. Rhododendron shouldn’t be allowed in the English language – hahaha – a tongue twister superbe – now I will be thinking flower names all day 😉