Food Analogy Poems

Rock paper scissors,
popular events have seat fillers;
seven minutes in heaven,
a bingo call of legs eleven.

Sweet and sour,
rising dough needs flour;
popcorn watching a movie,
forty years celebrated...

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broken token
despise disguise
~
holly-Holy
trouble double
~
eating bleeding
sausage biscuit

5/1/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©...

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She is a Pacific ocean 
Tranquil from outside
tumultuous from with in
 
         Shallow it seems from the...

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It simmers. This constant invisible, hovering 
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening 
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into...

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from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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pricot and plums;
are they served in fruit salad;
citrus to me so
~
melon-choly bowl;
filled with collar turnip green;
fruit cocktail salad;
~
urban session dreads;
drenched in hot sauce Red Devil;
...

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I placed my head between my knees to have a good look at the trees beneath me; I held it there for some time and...

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Nature of Prejudice by Gordon Alport

"I am not prejudiced and do not discriminate against
Minority Groups. One of my best friends is black and
member of a...

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In your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...

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Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of...

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Have you ever had
A bag of potato chips
A glass of smoky wine
Halfway through
Wanting for more?

Have the rest of the bag
Drink the whole bottle
There’s wisdom in...

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eggs, sausage and bacon met a frying pan
And a heated congregation they gather for breakfast 

1/1/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2024...

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how bad had bad been
by having been bad again
where bad news will begin

When men may be bad
amount had been a scad
threw away like rotten shad

(always...

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how bad had bad been
by having been bad again
where bad news will begin

When men may be bad
amount had been a scad
threw away like rotten shad

(always...

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ravish so the hooks unleash
the fish from it's scales as such anchor hoist
 rods and nets overhang the breach deck
gatherings of the bounty fins fish...

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