Rare Cooking This Fine Morn

Rare Cooking This Fine Morn

To have deep-thoughts, dreams a poet slowly eats
Or spiced casseroles of ink-piggy feats?
Meals written on yellow paper to enjoy.
Chinese fried rice with steamed adjective soy!

Experience new dishes, of rare flavor
Spread like butterfly wings upon glazed ham.
Pour tasty hot liquid words to thus savor
Bluebird wings sprinkled in blackberry jam!

What ? No essays,  delightful adverb desserts?
No pans of Poe-like raven-baked pies
Yes! And add in boiled rhymes and magpie tales
Booming baked echoes of Mobydick whales!

What next? Fiction, tasty mysterious spurts?
With deep fried fish and red-button from shirts.
What taste? Tonight toasted Spanish serenade
With sweetest Sangria spice red Kool-Aid!

To have deep-thoughts, dreams a poet slowly eats
Or spiced casserole of ink-piggy feats?
Meals written on yellow paper to enjoy.
Chinese fried rice with steamed adjective soy!

Robert J. Lindley

Rhyme, Lin 10/11 

Syllable count
11 10 11 10 0 11 10 11 10 0 11 10 11 10 0 11 10 11 10 0 11 10 11 10 
Total # Syllables: 223
Total # Words: 146

Note, a Lindley family tradition, I cook the last day of the old year..
I've already completed breakfast and got the idea to cook up something on paper..
Lunch is running a bit late...
I cook but no hurry,  is my motto.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Robinson Jr. Avatar
January 5, 2017 at 9:49 AM
I agree w/Charmaine. A very delectable offering, Robert. The metaphors are worth the price to eat this fantabulous meal. Very creative w/so many more variants you can you to reprise or make a second helping of this wonderful poem. A master chef you are, my poetic friend. Happy New Year. May love light your path to peace always.
Lindley Avatar
January 17, 2017 at 11:05 AM
Thank you my friend.. I cooked breakfast again this very morn. Added another plate here... Maybe not as delicious as some previous meals, but if one is hungry it will do methinks.
Chircop Avatar
December 31, 2016 at 2:18 PM
Very entertaining poem...and it made me very hungry.:) Have a Blessed New Year ...Enjoy the yummi delicious food.
Lindley Avatar
January 1, 2017 at 1:14 PM
Thank you. I had great fun composing this piece. I cook and enjoy doing so if I get to cook my own dishes...
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