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Barbecuing Poems - Poems about Barbecuing

4th of July in my Family in the Fifties

...We used to celebrate the fourth of July with our cousins.
Barbecuing food, and attending the parade up town on the square.
Sometimes we decorated our bikes with streamers and rode in the parade.
M...

Categories: barbecuing, july,
Form: Prose Poetry

How to pick Dragon Fruit

...Snatch it from the dragon's lair
while he's sleeping, shh, beware
(or you'll get caught in his stare)
eat some, share some, if you dare
(preserve rest in fridgidaire)
if he awakes -- say a praye...

Categories: barbecuing, animal, childhood, fire, fruit,
Form: Monorhyme

Love Is Love and Other Absurd Truisms

...("Untitled - The Eye of Jihad", 2019, original encaustic)

Love is Love - and other absurd truisms

“Love is love” is like “Follow your bliss”
a way to deflect the moral agency 
and subs...

Categories: barbecuing, extended metaphor, society, today,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Garden BBQ Summer Menu

...Friends have an open invitation, dusky sky, soft rock music~
It’s all part of the experience of barbecuing—I Am Anaya


Rustic charred mesquite fired up
Aromatic smoke 
Sweet g...

Categories: barbecuing, food, summer,
Form: Epulaeryu

Fear Not

...They call it fear,
but I choose to dare
'cause too many hands 
are washed in widows' tears 


Now I'm here
barbecuing fear
with folk and spare.


To become firm,
I became fear
to scare m...

Categories: barbecuing, courage,
Form: Free verse

Picnic-

...Grand large
Banqueting,  tailgating,  barbecuing
It put hunger to rest
Gone

6/10/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

Categories: barbecuing, celebration, food,
Form: Didactic

The Adventures of Captain Morgan

...Well, it all started when
Jim Beam bet Jack Daniels
that Captain Morgan
couldn't go out
and get himself
some Wild Turkey.
Old Fashioned, like Old Granddad,
Captain Morgan like some of you,
re...

Categories: barbecuing, drink, fantasy, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse

Nature Picnic Setting--

...Ants and Picnics
Apples and oranges
Summer cookouts
Grandma’s homemade, lemonade
Daddy’s barbecuing
And when it’s all said and done the thunder and rain comes
Its summertime
Raining...

Categories: barbecuing, analogy, appreciation, cute, food,
Form: Free verse

Homegrown Aromas-F

...For years, those homegrown scents have been stuck in my head.                                                                                                 It's mother's home-grown and freshly cook...

Categories: barbecuing, childhood, food, mother, senses,
Form: Quintain (English)

Pyromancer

...baby you light up my life
matches strike in light passes
combusting is a must thing
it's anything but passive

there's desire in the fire
lips licking 'round loves edges
consuming each to reacquire
b...

Categories: barbecuing, life, love, light, light,
Form: Quatrain