Roberta Writes – d’Verse Poetic Tuesday: Busted #poetry

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Thank you to Lisa for this fun prompt as follows:

I took a bunch of pictures of the busts yesterday and have included several of them here (please click on the images to enlarge them.)  Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, gives you two options:

a) Create a sculpture (or bust) of yourself. Use any materials – real or imagined – using the guidelines within Victoria’s 2012 prompt.
b) Write an ekphrastic poem using one of the included busts. If you choose this option, please make sure you include artist attribution on your blog.

You can join in here: https://dversepoets.com/2025/04/15/dverse-poetics-tuesday-busted/

Memory Cake

dough is soft

squishy and sticky

flour coated fingers

knead and knead

gradually,

it becomes smooth

stretchy like elastic

split and rolled

into several balls

it’s ready for colouring

power, never liquid

each ball takes on

a new vibrancy

shades of pink, green,

purple, blue, and flesh

red and black are last

mucky and messy

hands stained purple

shaping and moulding

sharp tools cutting,

carving, and nipping

faces take shape

eyes, noses, mouths

hair: ringlets or straight

mother and children

flowers and vines

vision takes shape

memory cake for the future

young mother washing

while working from home

children on-line learning

in sunny backyard

Covid 19 encapsulated

in fondant and cake

Picture caption: Covid 19 cake – The young woman who lived in a shoe (she was me at the time)
Picture caption: Close up of the young woman with her washing outside the shoe house
Picture caption: Close up of the children. Michael is the one with the curly hair who is asleep. Haha!
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115 thoughts on “Roberta Writes – d’Verse Poetic Tuesday: Busted #poetry”

    1. Thank you, Esther. This cake represents my life during Covid. My job continued and was very busy as clients floundered to make financial strategies incorporating Covid, I had no help in the house or garden, and both sons were home schooling. Looking back it feels like a dream.

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          3. yes indeed and some more than others become isolated. Our eldest loves to be among the throng, our youngest having children, has an office in the garden and made a point of dressing and walking down his garden to it every day!

            Our middle son could not do his job from home. Now the eldest goes into the Office most days, the middle lad was working during the pandemic and the youngest is back in the office three days a week as is his wife. It strange everyone y different. 🌞🌞

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  14. Robbie, how enchanting your description of the process of creating 3D marvels. Each figure meticulously detailed. To think each part is edible is very cool. You poured a lot of love into this and it shows ❤ Thank you for sharing your creativity with this prompt.

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      1. You’re welcome. Years ago, my kids and I made dough Christmas ornaments and painted them. To do the same with edible cake, icing, etc. would be so much more complicated in comparison.

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  34. Oh my! Day by day, week by week, month by month … morphing into years ~ I’ve never seen anything as beautifully descriptive, as unique, as loving as your memory cake! EVER. I hope a local newspaper or tv station was able to highlight what you accomplished … others needed the inspiration it would have provided. I dumpster dived for wine bottles, my neighbors also made contributions, plus a few of my own. I created wine bottle art with alcohol inks, fingernail polish and acrylic paints. Then created bottle trees with those ‘glass drying rack things’! They still grace our deck.

    My son who is developmentally disabled and lives with me works full time in a busy supermarket. Life went on for the employees, all masked up. I remember my overreaction after picking him up at the end of his shifts … bleach-watering the soles of his work shoes, clothes immediately into the wash, showering. We knew virtually nothing about COVID and I cannot imagine I was the only ‘over-reactor.’ Thank you for this delightful poem.

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    1. Hi Helen, thank you for your lovely comment. Interestingly enough, I posted this cake to Facebook during the first lockdown and I was banned for 2 weeks for an inappropriate post. It was really weird. I am sure you were worried about your son, for him and for the rest of your family. My younger son is immune compromised and my mom was already over 80 so I was also paranoid. Thankfully it has passed 💖. Wishing you a wonderful Easter.

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  36. Excellent take on the prompt, Robbie. As is often the case, you have delivered creative output that is totally unique, informative and fun.

    Thank you!

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  40. Robbie, your poem is wonderful, and your memory cake is incredible! I always thought I was a great baker until I saw your creations. Haha! Well, I still am, but yours take much more patience than I have. So, I appreciate your time! Great post! 🥰

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  42. You are a woman of many talents, Robbie. Great poem and I love those cakes. It was such a tough time for everyone. I hope it never happens again.

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