small powder tablet
disintegrates in my mouth
as i bite down
pale pink yellow orange
you are the colors of spring
on a glaring hot day
have you ever thought
smarties are the breakfast food
of champions and young girls
both are sugar discs
yet not even third cousins
smarties and sweetarts
i eat one by one
until bumps rise on my tongue
i’ve gone too far
smart little candy
sugary synapses pop
making me brilliant
Learn more about Smarties here.
-from Topic Post: Candy Freak
Mind Candy
May 1, 2007 by ybonesy
Posted in Food, Haiku, Laughing, Poetry, Topic Writing | Tagged love of Smarties, poems about candy, poems about Smarties | 8 Comments
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Love your “confectionary haiku” as you so brilliantly termed it in the post. Speaking of brilliant, that Smarties site really pops, doesn’t it? I can taste the Smartie on my tongue.
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Yes, it’s a great site.
And speaking of one’s tongue, I ate too many sunflower seeds AND Smarties today, and now my tongue is hurting.
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Ouch, I hate that. The old sweet to salt, yin yang thing.
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So, QM, do you not eat Smarties any longer? I think I recall you saying they were on your list of things you ate as a kid. I rediscovered them when my girls starting eating them around Halloween and now I’m hooked all over again.
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Yes, you know, I do still like Smarties. Good mix of sweet and sour. When they’re around at Halloween, I do pop them open. I find they spill everywhere pretty easily. Don’t you always drop them all over when you eat them?
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One of the most ingenious packaging achievements this side of Howard Johnson’s single scoop perched on the edge of the cone. Guaranteed to fall off at the first lick, prompting toddler tears and mom to fork over more cash for a replacement.
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I just pick them up off the floor and eat them. Yesterday we took a bunch to the horse show and I was eating them even after they fell on the ground (where horses probably pooped last season–I like Smarties *that* much).
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OHHHHH, off the horse poop floor? Liz just fainted. LOL.
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