POETRY
Banana Flambe
A most delightful desert
A tale from our little restaurant; pre covid.
Just right succulent ripe bananas,
not too soft now; no, textures all wrong,
under-ripe too hard and dry.
Bananas to make your mouth water
sliced just right through the middle placed on a dish
wide enough for a healthy dollop of ice cream to sit on top!
Placed in front of our thrilled guests always brings
beaming smiles in flavoursome anticipation.
One each is better you romantic fools;
We promise, you will soon regret sharing!
Then comes the ladle with rum on fire!
Procuring a mixture of weary delight on sight
as rum is poured over the ice cream,
phone cameras out while blue flames make a pretty sight
dripping down onto the banana, why so surprised?
You did order banana flambe.
I continually see happiness spread wide across the faces of diners
who ordered this heavenly dessert.
Bet they had wished they’d ordered two. Lessons learned young lovers!
James G Brennan 2021.
Dedicated in alphabetic order to, Paroma Sen & Suzanne V. Tanner.
Thank you as always GB Rogut for giving my words a platform. 🙏
Thank you all for reading and your precious time. Always. J. 🙏✨
