These Are My JOTtings...

18 Ways of Looking at Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

I

O, Luscious dough of chocolate chip.
Enamored I'm with you.
So sweetly on the tongue and lip.
It's nap-time when I'm through.

II

To mix you in a tall milkshake
and sip you slowly down
is all I need for tummy quake
and smile from the latest frown.

III

This chocolate chip in cookie dough
can make a wondrous pie.
Delights of a fork are sweet to know.
I would not ever lie.

IV

Each trail mix made has chunks, you see
of cookie dough, chips, and fruit.
Each step on the path the taste buds free,
and mental landscape suit.

V

O, CCCD, take the plunge
in peanut butter pond.
The massive bowl need ne'er expunge
the slightest morsel upon.

VI

The simplest way to cook your Joy
as circles on a sheet
means cookies are your chips employ.
We're thankful them to eat!

VII

We'll wrap some "balls" in cellophane
to place in Easter eggs,
but chill them in the 'frig, it's plain,
'fore searching toddler begs.

VIII

With cookie dough of chocolate chips,
we'll fill an ice tray full
and place in a freezer by our script
to make our eggnog cool.

IX

My coffee cup of lasting love
is thrilled by Mocha mix,
but greater still thy chips to prove,
enraptured tasty tricks.

X

Vanilla yogurt in a bowl
with chocolate chips galore
and cookie dough makes a wondrous whole
as stomach begs for more.

XI

A "chips and dough" replacement meal
can make the pause of bliss.
Whether homemade or a store-bought deal,
you're fingers you will kiss.

XII

A Graham S'More with cookie dough
and chips will make you reel.
Adrenaline should over-show,
I really, firmly feel.

XIII

Just keep it fluid with more milk,
then pour in Popsicle molds.
The end result is smooth as silk
on dripping arms that hold.

XIV

Prepare a creamy ice cream mix
of cookie dough chips to freeze,
then form them into cake pan bricks
your social realm to please.

XV

The cake pan bricks can serve by the slice
or bread it and fry anon,
then slice and drizzle chocolate twice.
Your worries will be quite gone.

XVI

A breakfast oatmeal bowl that's splashed
with chocolate chip cookie dough balls
will make a worker's morning dash
quite brisk before Work calls.

XVII

We'll paint the clouds with cookie dough
and soon the rain will fall
in chocolate chips. What crops we'll grow!
And men in white coats will call.

XVIII

If Willy Wonka were the king,
he'd mint a coinage true.
Of chocolate chip cookie dough we'd sing,
and stocks the roof be through.

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by Jay O'Toole
on September 19th, 2018