bragging, boasting, brainy Barney Blithe brought buxom Betty Brown
braised, boiled, baloney. Beaming Betty Brown bestowed baked berry
baklava on Barney, besting bragging, boasting, brainy Barney Blithe.
Categories:
baklava, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Phyllo
Sweet taste of baclava.
Drizzled honey.
Crunchy walnuts.
Hint of nutmeg.
Warmed to delicate crispness.
My mouth waters.
Eyes light with delight.
Nose twitches in anticipation.
But…….
Here I stand at midnight.
My kitchen a doughy mess.
Rolling and re-rolling phyllo dough
My trials and tribulations
on display with cracked
and torn doughy pieces
spread across the counter.
Exhausted, ready to give up.
The baklava seems miles away.
Time wasted proving I can’t
make phyllo dough.
I slouch in my chair.
Depression seeps into my soul.
Then, with a grin, I remember
my favorite Greek restaurant opens
in the morning.
Categories:
baklava, humor,
Form: Free verse
You're all invited to my party.
No, not Jack or Jill or Marty.
I'm inviting apple strudels,
pies and tarts, the whole caboodle,
custards, puddings, buttered scones
(with muffins and bagels, I'm not alone),
cookies, croissants, an eclair,
and my lovely baklava, so dear.
Categories:
baklava, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
In The Realm of Silver Linings,
you never will find rust,
and never will you ever
see things turn to dust.
Bees may sting, but in this realm,
a bee’s sting does not hurt.
The sweetest honey flows instead.
Baklava will be dessert.
In the Realm of Silver Linings,
should you break a bone,
by nightfall you are healed.
No one has been heard to groan.
Illness rarely finds you there.
Even if it should -
recovery comes as easily
as simply knocking wood.
In the Realm of Silver Linings
lemons don’t need to be sour,
and needful rainfall only comes
lightly like a shower.
You may think such a place
as this cannot exist,
but those with faithful hearts
by good luck there are kissed.
In the Realm of Silver Linings
live those who learned to cope
with trials previously given
but who all the while kept their hope!
Categories:
baklava, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Baclava! Baklava!
the steaks are medium rare!
one stick of butter
1/4 inch bead of garlic paste
1/4 bead of anchovy paste
2 Tablespoons of dehydrated onions
soaked in 3 tablespoons of beef stock
drain.
2 Tablespoons of parsley
1 cured egg yolk
1 tablespoon of lime juice
pinch of cayeene
marrow of four cooked beef bones
grate egg yolk
whisk with lime juice
add anchovy paste
add
garlic paste
soften butter whisked in.
onions
add bone marrow
and mix
chill in refrigerater
to atop your favor steak.
Categories:
baklava, myth,
Form: Ballad
Baklave punished the people of
Thermopolium. The taught
the flavors of desire and decodance
When Apicius created a dessert for
the men of Anceintious. One man wished to
be loved and sorted the farro in fields
and dairy's in barns. In search
of sweetness gathered honeys. o He told the
men of these ancient places only a God
could appreciate such decadence.
He called on Apicius to
take farros for flour, The butters for fat ,
creamy cheese for richness:
to be encrusted with a sweet potatoes
and and to have a nuttiness of toasted pecans
mixed with farro flour butter eggs vanilla
and theobroma casas. To be baked in Zeus's oven
And when done all shall proclaim me God in
the Highest.
Apicius fixed kaka, and the people of Anceintious ate it.
aAnd smiles turned into concern.
One spoke saying the women shall hate us. Men will tease us.
And a world of long suffering
shall spite at us. Baklava spoke from the vinyard saying
curses he that labored.
Curses he that has chored. And the recipe disappear forever
Baklava
used his powers to hide it side a tree on amountain.
in 1903 a Fruit picker near a Silver mine
found the parchment and translated it.
Categories:
baklava, chocolate, devotion, food, fun,
Form: Bio
raspberry cobbler
chocolate chip cookies
almond torte with cream
lemon meringue pie
blueberry muffin
banana split
chocolate cake
butterscotch pie
almond blizzard
key lime pie
baklava
pudding
donuts
pie
Categories:
baklava, food,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Remembrances of golden us....
Swaddled in each others' arms...
Stargazing... so midnight sweet!
Tears of joy on my pillow, when I am
Blest to dream of you...you..
My forever, sexy,Middle-Eastern
Baklava, sweetest human-love treat!
Twas in Bagdad by the Bay!
So grateful in that Hellenic Cafe,
When our eyes first did meet.
I have penned of you many times
before and...,
Always, always, you stand..,knocking
at my heart's wide opened door!
Eternally yours,
Panahiota
6/15/2021
Categories:
baklava, love, romantic,
Form: Verse
Kidnap Me!
On the San Francisco cable car,
or just about anywhere!
You, so blessed with that unique,
wavy Middle Eastern hair.
That kiss, so moist and rich, like
delicious Baklava.
Hold me yet closer and kidnap me
to your Casbah!
Your kindness, overwhelming and
so everlasting, entrancing.
As your eyes glowing in mine, while Greek
circle dancing.
You are embedded in my soul for all days
and for all time.
I am yours, my sweet, and you~ are so
mmutably, mine!
4/9/2019
~ 1~
Categories:
baklava, beautiful, imagery, love,
Form: Couplet
~~~~~~~
Ah, finding the right Greek to go
after!
That stole my soul forever with
love and laughter!
Twas my glimmering treasure trove
to secure.
I admit fully to being anything
but shy and demure!
His buoyancy, his enigmatic zeal
while we soaked our toes in the Pacific!
Sultry waves, alternating between deep
rainbow and holographic.
Kisses, yes,tempestuous and very randy.
The joy of you~tasting like warm, erotic,
Baklava candy!
Oh, don't be still my heart!
That Hellenic lovemaking is quite a lovely
art.
The rational of the planet, think
I am insane!
Good! Let's the two of us go dance Hasapiko,
naked in the rain!
Afterwards don your Greek soldiers' outfit
for me!
Handsome you,in that foustanella now to
please,
Oh, gorgeous Greek, dancing
Tsamiko, my heart pounding.
My decades of passion and love
for you, so Thessaloniki astounding!
At this point,I must stop this late
night quilling!
To be with you, Agape Mou, your
Panagiota is eternally willing!
January 6, 2020
10:30 PM PST
Categories:
baklava, beach, dance, imagery, love,
Form: Couplet
We walked seemingly on clouds!
The pavement softened beneath our feet.
My dancing, flirtatious,foustenela dream.
Your kiss like baklava cream.
That decadent angelic first kiss, I still taste!
The decades ran with our hearts in haste.
The trail of joyous dreams of us glow
Following me~wherever I go.
Open the gate at the Romios Star
When I so anxiously arrive.
Eternally addicted to you and you alone.
Only then can I thrive!
September 24, 2019
Categories:
baklava, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
(Adored one =Latreea Mou!)
~A Heavenly Man~
Short and Baklava sweet~
Who can dance like he has magical
wings on his feet.
Those eyes, pierce me, so very
brown and beautiful.
Add a twinkling soul, divinely pure,
With a destiny for the heavens!
Oh ,yes, latreea mou!
Of that, your Panagiota is adamantly
sure.
Panagiota Romios
3/18/2019
Categories:
baklava, magic, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Had some time to kill while in
A town we don't know well.
Found a place to eat - looked good,
As far as we could tell.
The booths were cozy, seats were filled
And portions (took a peek)
Looked generous and yummy;
The proprietor was Greek.
The salad was delicious
And the grape leaves were the best.
The soft warm bread most surely
Put will power to the test.
The spinach pie and baklava
Did help round out the meal,
A random unexpected find
And also, a great deal!
Categories:
baklava, food,
Form: Rhyme
Didn’t digest my all-dressed pizza
Suffering now from insomnia
A touch of every possible phobia
Mostly of ravenous bacteria
And humongous tarantula
O yes, and the sordid mafia
Did I call my Grandmamma
Did I put away the spatula
Did I book girls’ day at the spa
Did all the bourgeois really die of cholera
I’m drowning under this plethora
Remind me What’s that formula
O yes, Abracadabra
Tra-la-la and La-di-da
And poof now I’m in a gondola
On the way to utopia
Dressed in graceful taffeta
Eating baklava in the basilica
Hanging from the candelabra
Swinging to the tunes of Lady Gaga
Supported by the silliest orchestra
Hey you Pass me the foie gras
I have a cockeyed camera
You’ll see me at the cinema
I love you Etcetera Etcetera
AP: 1st place 2020, 3rd place 2025
Submitted on February 3, 2019 for contest 2019 POETRY MARATHON MILE 16 sponsored by MARK TONEY
Originally submitted on February 20, 2018
Categories:
baklava, dream, fantasy, fun, imagination,
Form: Monorhyme
One thousand and one fluttering butterflies in one centre all
flap their wings sharing ambrosia for my soul mate and I
Mysterious nights in soft embrace tending sensuous flight
dance to tunes of the muezzin praying for love’s melody
Turkish delight on the shores of Baklava sweat meats taste
under a veil of exposure in nubility’s promises reconfirmed
Silk’s fragrance on a magic carpet in full flight shelters them
as their passion was made for more than the dusk of the dawn
Mosque and musk mingle when fast is broken and garments unfastened in
the East when sun rises bids farewell to the moon and their vows bow to
Tantra cosmos and mantra and
give thanks to the orbit they do not have to travel alone
12th February 2018
Categories:
baklava, love,
Form: Free verse
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