Day 25 Madeleine Remembrance

Inspired by the Marcel Proust Questionnaire (see prompt below)

THE POEM:

Madeleine Remembrance

so much depends

upon

a Madeleine cake

even a crumb

transports

to memories

once lost

in time

c. Jacquelyn Markham 4/25/2024

THE PROMPT:

You can find all the details about this prompt, at our poetry center for the 2024 poem-a-day challenge linked here at Napowrimo.net: “Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem based on the “Proust Questionnaire,” a set of questions drawn from Victorian-era parlor games, and adapted by modern interviewers. You could choose to answer the whole questionnaire, and then write a poem based on your answers, answer just a few, or just write a poem that’s based on the questions.”

Brief Bio of Marcel Proust, courtesy of “Light & Art”:

The“madeleine”, with its softness and unique flavor, transports the author of the text,Marcel Proust, to his childhood. This French writer(1871-1922)renewed the contemporary novel and was the creator of the series“In search of lost time”, made up of seven novels, to whose writing he dedicated almost his entire life. Locked in a room, with cork-covered walls, he created the protagonist (his alter ego) and explored his past evoked by a sensitive and disorderly memory whose only law is the association of ideas. (Retrieved from https://www.luzyarte.net/2016/06/la-madeleine-de-proust.html)