Cookies

*In honour of our recently-completed poetry section

On Friday evening we had three friends over to make cookies. While they were in the oven baking (the cookies, not the friends) we were inspired to write cookie poetry. Each of us in turn wrote a line of the poem. Our original plan was to have an AABB rhyme scheme, but the ever-mischievous Tim kind of wrecked that when he wrote the word orange at the end of line three. So the rhyme scheme became AABA. We called the poem complete after writing two stanzas. It's kind of strange (although not as weird as the ones from that poem generator). Here it is:


Cookies by AQ, BQ, CS, JG & TG
Flour, sugar, eggs and salt,
But it won't work without some malt.
Shall we add some peel of orange?
Its bad taste is not your fault.

Make sure the cookies don't get burned
Or else a lesson you'll have learned.
So watch those cookies with a care,
And you will a mighty cook have turned.


It was a fun evening and the cookies tasted great. Oh, and we also defined the newly invented word rickle as a very long, curvy licorice (with each of us contributing one word to the definition). I felt very creative by the end of the night!