An Appetizer of Implication

“Here is some sustenance to sate the appetite

To abate the hunger, while on the next course – you wait.

 The flavor profile has style, it`s crisp and bright;

A sensual aroma rises, detected, perfected on the hot plate”.

The multitude of main dishes are receiving stylistic garnish.

The dishes are decorated with a sort of intellectual flair;

Their silent notes must flawlessly flare, and brilliantly blare.

The dishes resplendence must be lacquered, as in varnish;

To ensure their presentation is revealed without tarnish.

“Can you sense the appetizer`s implication,

The analogy`s comparison and correlation

(Are the metaphors, which were previously wrote,

Too ambiguous, too arcane, - and too remote;

Or are the mental angles, which are supplementary,

Too elementary – the symbolic juxtapositions rudimentary?)”.

“Does the customer prefer Robert Elliot or T.S. Frost? ...

If the label is not definitive or specific (cryptic),

Does the calligraphy become hieroglyphic?

Are the suggestions (other than the conspicuous) too intense?

Does the creator, and artist, no longer have any poetic license?

… If the appropriate arrangement is altered

(If the rigorous regulations are reciprocated);

Is the fundamental, essential, and indispensable lost”?

On the surface, each dish (thus far) has been delivered

With a simple, satisfying, savory taste of symmetry;

A meek, yet meticulous metrical show of geometry.

Beneath the uncomplicated structures - concepts figured…

… Are intricate suggestions, webs variegated in complexity.

The cook has created many dishes well below his capacity -

Hoping that someone might notice, and fathom his (yet revealed) aptitude;

(Hoping to attain exposure, through an accessible composure)

His true artistic character, remained restrained - concealed, hiding it`s amplitude.

Never has he had desires for obscene opulence or complete celebrity –

His only wishes: his dishes were no longer consider works of levity,

And to receive significant approval, as an actual creative entity. 

“Here is an appetizer, created wearily, in silence and obscurity”.

Composed By: Andrew Drucker