Ridged shells,
sea conchiglie*,
drenched in warm
asiago, romano and
cheddar cheese,
look like barnacles
in a tidepool or
tiny moons in a
blue willow galaxy,
ready for a hungry
black hole.
Me.
Copyright 2017 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks to Tabatha Yeatts at the Opposite of Indifference for hosting and Diane for suggesting the Macaroni and Cheese theme! July 14th is National Macaroni and Cheese Day. Stop by the link up for more cheesy poems. Also, a special thanks to Jone, who showed me what barnacles in a tide pool look like.
*Conchiglie is the name given to a variety of shell-shaped pasta.
80 thoughts on “Barnacles and Cheese”
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LOL YUM!!! I’ll take some too, thank you 🙂
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Come on over anytime. 🙂
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Im a sucker for some mac n cheese!
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Me, too. Yum.
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Hello! This makes me feel hungry 😀
Marianne
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LOL It’s hard to resist pasta and cheese.
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I totally agree 😀
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Fun and delicious times during poetry Friday! I love seashells and should get some rich cheese’s to create strong bones and teeth! 🙂 Yummy, Brenda.
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Thanks! I love doing Poetry Friday, although some weeks are more pressure than others.
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Such h a Scrumptious Delight. 😎😎😎
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LOL Yes, indeed!
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Love that ‘blue willow galaxy!”
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Thanks, Matt.
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LOL!!! Well written. 😀 😀
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Yay, getting laughs is much harder than just writing poetry. 🙂
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Love the comparison! I may have to try some barnacles and cheese!
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LOL My kids and I are always renaming things. 🙂
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“like barnacles in a tide pool” You nailed it, Brenda!
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Thanks, Kiesha!
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This really truly made my mouth water! And it doesn’t help that it just turned noon as I was reading…
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Nothing makes my mouth water like bubbling cheese. 🙂
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A highlight of this week’s offerings–way to stretch!
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Thanks, Heidi! That is an honor.
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Ha! What perfect imagery, Brenda… I love this creamy angle that you & Irene’s Buttercups decided to swim in…. :0)
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Thanks, Robyn. It was fun looking for the unusual in the usual.
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incredible title – great lines and wonderful end, impressive!
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Thank you!
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Oh, what a fun new Italian word to add to my vocabulary!
And I do like my macaroni to be bathed in a sea of cheese. 🙂
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Can there be too much cheese? I think not. 🙂
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You know, I really think you are on to something….think of the marketing barnacles & cheese could be for an under the sea themed box o’ mac & cheese. You make me hungry!
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LOL Perhaps there would be one kraken and one Jack Sparrow per box. 🙂
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Great title–and your ending made me laugh!
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That’s what I was going for. 🙂
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Yum, your version of Mac and Cheese sounds extra delicious, Brenda.
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Thanks, Tara. 🙂
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Love the title – Barnacles and Cheese! Now that would be intriguing to a kid. The name alone would get them to try it!
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LOL May have to use it.
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Barnacles! The Buttercups are enchanted. Thank you! (and yes, I think I know that black hole…) xo
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LOL We all have our black hole moments.
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ha…loved that ending!!!
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LOL That mac n cheese is long gone. Although, in the interests of full disclosure, it was my son’s bowl that I photographed. Of leftovers. The day when it’s made, it looks much better.
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Might not have been my son’s for long as I love Mac n Chez!!!
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LOL I have my moments, too. A return to childhood where comfort food was all it took.
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Now that I’ve entered adulthood and made my first from-scratch mac and cheese, I can’t wait to try variations on the cheese and pasta. I’ll be sure to serve mine in pretty bowls to an appreciative black hole!
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LOL I’m one of the lucky ones, who loves mac n cheese in all its many incarnations, annie’s, homemade, elbows, shells, fettuccine alfredo, with mix-ins or without. Yum.
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Yes! This poem captures the shape in an unexpected way. Brava! LOVE
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Thanks, Jan!
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This is so lovely, Brenda. I am swooning over “tiny moons in a/blue willow galaxy.” Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks, Catherine!
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Haha! Go the hungry black hole. 😛
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That’s me after a day of gardening. 🙂
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Looks absolutely delectable enhanced by your description and comparisons!
Peta
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Thank you!
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Your photo is so pretty — love that bowl! Usually we think of black holes as being frightening; I like how you turned that around.
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Thanks for hosting and for stopping by, Tabatha. It was fun to think about mac n cheese more than my wont.
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Yummy dish to try but the real clincher for me were the last lines, Brenda.
ready for a hungry
black hole.
Me.
I say, “Me, too.”
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It’s a meal for the discerning adult, in touch with her inner child. 🙂
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Love it! But one question. How do you pronounce “Conchiglie”?
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If I were Italian, I would be confident I knew. Alas, I am just a research-fiend who found the word and scooped it up for my own dastardly purposes. In my little head, I pronounce it as a combo of conch and igloo, but instead of the “oo” at the end, I put the “ee” sound. Conch-ig-leee. Where the emphasis goes, no idea, but I’m guessing the second syllable, the “ig”.
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Love:
“look like barnacles
in a tidepool or
tiny moons in a
blue willow galaxy,”
Happy my photo provided inspiration.
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Glad you like how it bubbled up in my poetry tar pit brain.
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OMG!
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LOL
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tiny moons in a blue willow galaxy…
Perfection.
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Thanks you, Claudia!
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Yum, your poem and pic are delicious Brenda! I love these two lines,
“tiny moons in a
blue willow galaxy,”
Lovely 😊 Thanks.
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Thanks, Michelle. 🙂
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And now I’m hungry.
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LOL
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oh, i love the way you see things, lucy, and then have the perfect words to describe them. hope you enjoyed them )
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Thanks, Beth.
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It looks so appetising for a food freak like me!
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🙂 Makes me hungry.
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Delicious Brenda.
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Thank you!
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Lovely 🙂 I love how you made something mundane sound so very beautiful. It looks delicious as well 😍
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🙂 My kids favorite food!
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Yum!! One of my and my daughter’s favorite meals!! Dinner! 😛
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The theme of this week’s Poetry Friday. 🙂
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