"Chamomile and Honeycrack" -- 124 lines, $62
Your prompt about holiday dishes in Path of the Paladins turned into the free-verse poem "Chamomile and Honeycrack." It's a big jump forward in time, because it has Shahana and Ari celebrating the winter solstice, but I think it's okay to release now because it's not likely to mess up any other continuity.
"The Chocolate Goddess" -- 26 lines,
Your prompt about exercise and chocolate reminded me of many other images of power and beauty, which got me thinking about women; and of darkness as something positive, which brought in ethnic awareness. So "The Chocolate Goddess" is about finding strength through beauty, and balancing pleasure with effort while constructing the temple of the body. It's written in free verse.
"The Curse of Titania's Table" -- 32 lines, $15
The prompt about "chocolate food product" led to "The Curse of Titania's Table." Written in unrhymed quatrains, this poem explains the origins of junk food.
"Delicious Differences" -- 28 lines,
Stephen Laird left me a backchannel prompt for "coconut," which grew into "Delicious Differences," a free-verse poem about chocolate's relationship with both coconut and peanut.
"The Evolution of Perception" -- 16 lines, $10
From the prompt about progression, I got "The Evolution of Perception." Written in free-verse quatrains, it extols the virtues of various brands of chocolate.
"The Fountainhead of the Wisdom of Food" -- 35 lines, $15
The prompt about "chocolate fountains" combined with what
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"Fruitless" -- 16 lines,
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"Haunted Gatherers" -- 15 lines, $10
The prompt about inedible ingredients led to a comparison of historic and modern food acquisition in the free-verse poem "Haunted Gatherers."
"The Leaning of Life" -- 9 lines, $5
The idea of food as obligation led to "The Leaning of Life," which discusses why creatures really exist.
"The Luckpot" -- 33 lines, $15
I combined "potlucks" and "food as a gift" with prompts from several other folks to get "The Luckpot." Written in unrhymed tercets, this poem explores many ways in which food connects people.
"Pat's Place" -- 35 lines,
Your prompt about communal cooking inspired the free-verse poem "Pat's Place" about the kitchen in the Teferact where Schrodinger's Heroes eat. It's a cozy little piece of home in what can otherwise be a cool and clinical environment.
"Pigeon Soup" -- 72 lines,
I combined your "healing soup" prompt with something that
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"Savour" -- 41 lines,
The prompt about "umami" led to the free-verse poem "Savour," which describes the subjective and objective aspects of the fifth flavour.
"A Shopper's Problem" -- 20 lines,
This line about ingredients inspired a double-rhymed ballad, "A Shopper's Problem," about searching a supermarket for foods that might actually be edible.
"Speechflesh" -- 36 lines,
From the prompt about feeding body and soul, I got the free-verse poem "Speechflesh," which lays out parallels between what we eat, what we believe, and how they affect us.
"Sundrops" -- 10 lines, $5
The prompt "lemon drops" led to the free-verse poem "Sundrops," which compares sunlight to lemons.
"This Bittersweet Weed" -- 74 lines, $37
From various prompts about the captivating effects of chocolate, I got the free-verse poem "This Bittersweet Weed." Aliens arrive on Earth and fall in love with chocolate. Then they start noticing its intoxicating effects, and break into arguments over what to do about that. Earth's future winds up resting in, shall we say, some rather unexpected hands.