Pioneer 400

Dear everyone at Clearview Stoves, 

Thought you may enjoy this poem I was inspired to write about my wonderful Pioneer 400 Clearview Stove. We’re coming up to our fourth winter together, and I (and the dog) love it more than ever!

I’ve performed it a few times at Open Mic events, to great reception, and like to think I’ve encouraged more than a few people to get one too…

Many thanks, have a cosy winter!

Cathy

Poem:

A Midwinter Incantation or ‘Shall I compare Thee to A Clearview Stove?’

I want a lover like my Clearview Stove, My Clearview Stove will never rove

Though it’s got four legs, and a wide-open heart

A big clear window, which never soots up, 

Easily to Kindle, easy to start, always there for me, 

‘Til death do us part

I want a lover like my Clearview Stove. 

I want a love like my Clearview Stove, solid and chunky, at the center of my hearth. 

I feed it wood, it hold me in

The warmth of its

Big kind arms

I gaze all night into its fierce dancing heart

I hear it breathe (but never belch or fart)

(That’s my department)

I want a lover like my Clearview Stove, 

I want to love like my Clearview Stove, steadily, fuel-efficiently, sustainably, 

With flames entrancing, envisioning, ever changing

In a playful heart, each moment anew

On a deep bed of ashed, incandescent, encarnado*, vermillion-hot

I want to love like a Clearview Stove.

O to give  love like my Clearview Stove given to me by family:

Sisters Nelli, Fran, Nicki and Stephanie