During this pandemic stay-at-home time, new symbols are emerging. One of them is the banana, a staple in many homes is now ripening into home cooked banana bread. Repurposing food is comforting. Creating a recipe from scratch gives you something to do, something wholesome to accomplish.
Today’s photo appeared on my Facebook feed. A friend and neighbor, Susan Edmunds posted a photo that captured a light beam coming through the window. She gave me permission to publish the photo this week as a poetry muse.
A glow of light
Margaret Simon, draft
nourishes, comforts,
sustains health
and hope.
Write your own small poem in the comments. Please comment to a few other poets.
Reflections on the Teche 
That glow in between the bananas is so bright and pretty. I love the basket that holds the bunch. It’s a really beautiful pic! Thank you to your neighbor.
I just wrote a poem of thanks for another prompt…which probably influenced this draft.
God bless
harvesting
freight loading
ship sailing
cargo handling
truck driving
shelf stocking
gloved cashier
Hands
~Linda Mitchell
I love how you formatted this poem of thanks. We have so much to be grateful for.
Great tribute to the food supply workers who are keeping us all going.
Yes, indeed!! These essential workers mean so much. We will hopefully never take anyone for granted in the future. And our hands….so full of love and cuddles, work and creation and now germ transmitters…. essential treasures. I like where you took your poem, Linda.
Linda, your poem is beautiful! I love how it makes the reader realize how many hands it takes to bring one banana to their hands. A blessing, indeed
Such fun, Margaret. Thanks for doing these lovely prompts. The bananas photo is outstanding. Would your friend give me permission to use the photo on my site, too, perhaps with this poem:
Any vessel
can hold
light.
Let me know, and I’ll give her credit and link to your prompt. xoxo
Brenda, I love this! Yes. Any vessel.
Thanks, Linda. 🙂
I’m sure it’s fine, Brenda. Love the vessel!
Good to know. I’ll do a post then.
Ah, if only all of us and the vessels we have would hold onto the light and share it. Lovely, Brenda.
The harder the world challenges us, the more important to try. 🙂
Brenda, your poem is beautiful and has so many meanings! I agree the photo is outstanding!
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Here my post, just in case you don’t get pingbacks. https://friendlyfairytales.com/2020/04/30/holding-light/
Thanks Susan Edmunds for me.
Banana Split Deliciousness
Waiting in the basket,
wrapped in golden sunlight.
Treasure! Slice and plate
with icy cream, caramel, fudge.
Share or not!
I am craving a yummy dessert!!! May have to visit my friendly take out spot that has the frozen sundaes, but alas no bananas!
Delicious! Thanks!
Yum! Do you know….I’ve never had a banana split? LOL. It kinda overwhelms, me … the thought of it. Maybe someday, when there aren’t so many germ worries I’ll share one with somebody. But, a banana split wrapped in sunshine…now that’s a real treat.
Me either!! But they have always looked wonderful. I think I could share with 3 people but having the banana should make it healthier, right???? LOL
A thoroughly delicious poem.
Janet, I love your line, wrapped in golden sunlight, your rhythm, and alliteration. Caramel and fudge, yummy!
Margaret, to see how stunning the light is on these bananas, and how the idea of nourishment and nature, light and hope sustains and encourages us. Lovely.
Margaret, I love the prompt because the photo is a beautifully captured photo with its light and shade but it offers a poetic thought using light as the central focus. Congratulations to all the other poets for adding their poems of the day.
basket of light
sharing space with morning fruit
interconnected
Margaret, I love the prompt because the photo is a beautifully captured photo with its light and shade but it offers a poetic thought using light as the central focus. Congratulations to all the other poets for adding their poems of the day.
basket of light
sharing space with morning fruit
interconnected
-CV,2020
I like how wove, “basket of light” and “interconnected” in your haiku.
Margaret, I apologize for not commenting and sending my poem in April. I love how your poem captured, “glow of light.” I love the honesty and hopefulness of your poem. The photo is amazing capturing the glow of yellow. I love the use of light and shadow in the photo. Here’s my poem:
Blemished bananas
in the shadow
sun shines yellow
in your center,
sun, please cast
our blemish, COVID-19
in the shadow,
sun will you
shine in our center
holding hands,
soon?
Gail Aldous
April 2020