wooding spoongs

[MystyrMystyry]

i bought a pack of
wooding spoongs
the other day
uncultured
unrefined
a pale pallor
to their colour
not tanned like
their expensive
movie star
counterparts
as though they
had been crafted
from bamboo
and so were
possibly
edible to pandas
- do they make
chopsticks out
of bamboo?
i suppose they do
pandas could possibly eat those too

[_Shannon_]

Questions: What are spoongs? And why are they wooding? Are you talking about wooden spoons?

LOL! Its early and I have not yet had the appropriate amount of coffee for the tiny little bit I've slept, so it might make more sense to me later in the day. :)

[Bar22do]

Playful, with a little fury in the background! I especially see pandas taking on bamboo chopsticks! (hopefully untreated...)

[everyadventure]

Their expensive movie star counterparts! I always enjoy little odes to unpretentious objects but don't believe I've ever tried one myself... perhaps that will be my next project... [Oh, how I love thee, disposable diapers / Thank heavens for thee and also wet wipers!]

[Delta40]

I enjoyed the chirpiness to this poem. I figure move star counterparts could only be the best silver.

[Jerrybaldy]

I am with Shannon, why wooding spoongs for wooden spoons??

[MystyrMystyry]

Okay - I went to the supermarket for some wooden spoons - not solely, but as part of the entire shopping experience - they had wooden spoons, but at five bucks each for what is essentially just a piece of crappy wood - I thought no thanks

So then on my way home I dropped by the reject shop and they had three in a packet for two bucks - well, by my reckoning these were obviously much better value, but the colour was white like they'd seen a ghost, compared to the nice warm brown of the supermarket variety, and they were really light like balsa or bamboo - they just neither looked nor felt like 'real' wood

So I left two in the kitchen and was playing with one in front of the computer trying to discern what it was actually made of - I suspect bamboo - but I was thinking that if they're balsa that's really cheap for balsa - what can I use cheap balsa for?

Consequently wooding - because they're not wooden, and spoong because they're not quite real wooden spoons


And if I was a panda I could have eaten them

[everyadventure]

HA! I love your "background story," MM. In fact, you should post it in the short story forum... ;)

[AuntShecky]

"Wooding spoongs" was inventive, for what is poetry if not looking at language in new and original ways? (This isn't to say that corporate nonce words such as "spork" are poetic.)

A footnote, if I may:
I'm not a big supporter of globalization, and would most prefer to support industries firmly planted in the U. S. of A., yet on several occasions,because of financial situations, I have to purchase less expensive items manufactured in foreign lands. I really get a kick out of how speakers of other languages label products (or instructions) with their approximation of English. There's something endearing, even admirable, about it, especially since yours fooly, for one, is fluent in only her native language.

[Cunninglinguist]

i bought a pack of
wooding spoongs
the other day
uncultured
unrefined
a pale pallor
to their colour
not tanned like
their expensive
movie star
counterparts
as though they
had been crafted
from bamboo
and so were
possibly
edible to pandas
- do they make
chopsticks out
of bamboo?
i suppose they do
pandas could possibly eat those too

I've seen "save the pandas" adds on napkin holders and I've deduced that they must eat napkins, too.

[MystyrMystyry]

Thanks every - unusual to be complimented on the back story - I've got a million of 'em if you've got the time...

Thanks Aunty - I know what you mean, I have an El Cheapo camera from China that labeled its build quality as containing 'one len for superior photons'


Thanks Cunning - it would indeed be good if they had a more diverse diet - something worrying about an animal that survives on only one specific variety of one specific plant