Additives Poems

Premium MemberBread

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Flour, water, salt, and yeast
these basic ingredients at least
were for generations the staple
of bread eaten at the table.
To these basic natural four
have been added many more
“ingredient...
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Categories: additives, humor,
Form: Didactic

Premium Memberwe are individuals are we not

...none of heard the same words
for we are individuals are we not?
it is not our hearing that did not hear
it is the interpretive additives we add
for we are humans
living our own life
experiencin...
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Categories: additives, leadership,
Form: Free verse


Can It, Aussie Style - Antipodean, Not European

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It's enough to make one chunder
there used to be a time Down Under
when fair dinkum the label on the tucker tin
only stated the true blue maker's name
and the Vegemite we'd eat for brek...
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Categories: additives, food, fun, humorous, words,
Form: Rhyme

Neat and Tidy

...Rows of green spaces in a row

Trying to control natures flow,

all things wild have to conform,

To fit in with accepted norm.

Cut down trees they block out the sun,

Trim the lawn curtai...
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Categories: additives, anger, betrayal, earth day,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSound

...Acoustic and raw, 
it doesn’t need additives;
Creeping up on you
so very unexpected,
the haunt in haunted rhythm;

Oh ravenous fiend
I can describe you as sound,
Acid on the drums;
Bouncers ...
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Categories: additives, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Free verse


Don'T Give In

...Just clench your presence and perseverance per each severance/ 
as it enlightens your sense you can be relied on like plans for anchorage/
I see additives that help create and crate addicts/
The s...
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Categories: additives, addiction,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSentimentality

...A sentimental writer
tries to ram manufactured feelings
down our throats.
Those of us inclined toward an appreciation
of authentic emotions
will feel the bile rising 
as we try to digest what w...
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Categories: additives, writing,
Form: Free verse

Rights

...You have the right to remain silent
 but most of us never do,
we all have an opinion, 
 fact fake news or fiction
giving some of our wisdom to impart
 knowing it doesn't always come from the hea...
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Categories: additives, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme

Starving Stability

...My feelings I store on empty shelves of shoulders that don't  hold much but selfish needs. Preserved in salt to heal wounds and burn at once so to not forget the labels that have tested time, Patienc...
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Categories: additives, 11th grade, emotions, love
Form: Free verse

Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

...Alliterative adjectives
Are like poetic additives
That rearrange raw rhythmic rhyme
So sonnets sound more-so sublime.

“Aggrieved aggressors,” “Angry Aunts”
“Outraged oppressors,” “Haunted haun...
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Categories: additives, humor, language, poetry,
Form: Alliteration

Clister Doux Say Ye Love

...they found the discovery sound science
they started their research thinking
they could use natural additives mixed
with corn to allow their technology to see the vapor
coming from the dung of hog...
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Categories: additives, anti bullying, jobs, music,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Once There Was a Time

...when I waited the for ice cream truck
could buy something for a dime
spent my days at the pond
that’s when  there was more time

take in a movie with popcorn
still had left over change
at the ...
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Categories: additives, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberYogurt Blues

...YOGURT

This food is addictive for me!
No, not the cheap junk!
Pure artificial malarkey!
Masquerading in false yogurt dress!
It screams "probiotics" on it's side,
The cartons with gaudy colors...
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Categories: additives, food,
Form: Rhyme

For Sake and Someone More

...They poisoned almost everything
their grocery store could hold.
Where all they knew as additives
and modified was sold.

Then paid for politicians
to put labels on for mind.
That expedite desi...
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Categories: additives, abuse, analogy, assonance, destiny,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberContamination

...So much contamination
needs a close examination.

take a breath of radiation
or a toxic medication
select a name with aspartame
clean your car of acid rain
eat the food with preservatives
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Categories: additives, environment, pollution, society,
Form: Couplet

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