Cookie Cutter

A Philosophical poem, here's to you Plato.

The cookie dough is bare,

clean & vulnrable.

You press in the gingerbreadman form.
Taking out your tiny population,

you might sprinkle them

or maybe add icing.

We've slowly become particulars.
Your gingerbread men have shaped.

Some fluffy, others stretched thin.

Some tanned, others white.

Some decorated more nicely or sweeter.

The last in the tray however are undesired for society's pallet

But all made from dough, the same dough.

Cut from the same form.

Yet turned into particulars,

into themselves.

Author's Note

Leave me comments. Hope you enjoyed.

Reviews

[Amber "Victoriomantic" ..]

Brilliant write, with amazing philosophy. We all come from the same mould; we're all different, and yet all still human. "We've slowly become particulars." -- very true! With each generation there is more diversity than the last... but "all made from dough, the same dough."

Really enjoyed this piece.

[ginblossommm]

I love this

[Breezie Kae]

I dig the whole cookie metaphor thing. haha. Great poem. :)

[Lucia]

Wow such a powerful meaning. I liked the extended metaphor between the cookie people and human. These clear, truthful descriptions are also in a short attention grabbing way. I really enjoyed this! Though I can't tell if you used any format...

[C. Bookman]

Cute! It doesn't feel like a poem though...

I love the line "Taking out your tiny population," as well as "society's pallet." More wonderful wordplay like that and it would be EXCELLENT. :D

[Aussie]

I hate you. I am so incredibly jealous of your skittles,durn you.
This is yet another great,true and wise poem.
Can't wait for more! Keep giving me great things to read!(:

[An owl on the moon]

Very visual, vivid write! You create a world for us filled with variety, yet cut from such a similar form. Alike, and yet so different. Wonderfully done! Plato would be proud...

[JoyCJF]

Truth written beautifully. You're talented! Its an inspriration and food for thought for me :)

[Taymour]

Magnificent!!!, the theme is very impressive and the lines have something important to tell...i like the idea
amuse us more please :)

[Antonio Valentino]

Whether it be cloth, cookies, or humans, although different in so many ways, we are all cut from the same medium aren't we?

One tasty bit of wisdom here.

Now I've always been a left over scrap kind of guy.
Probably because I'm one myself :)

Thanks for the cookie Woody.