An ongoing series of my poems intended to show support for the Beacon community. Each poem is inspired by a Beacon Main Street business or service.


Your participation is invited! - - If you wish to collaborate, please send original artwork, photos, music, and other content by both adults and children to larrysansone@gmail.com. I will post these submissions here, along with the poems.


Chocolate
(Inspired by Alps Sweet Shop)


Through myriad display and varied forms,
Liquidity and hardness, dark and light,
And all extreme degrees of chill and warmth,
Yet one consistency in heart's delight.

A flavoring for all experience,
From bitterness to sweet serenity,
Of scandalously sinful decadence,
And innocence of childhood memory.

A salve for sadness. Supplement to joy,
Companion to a million frames of life.
No wonder it's so often found employed,
As token of our love exemplified.