Best Appetizers Poems

APPETIZERS 

It licks it's raspy way across the land,
and peeks around and drools at our abode.
A plume of ash to blacken every man,
and leaves our children standing in the road.
Devours hot crackling sounds in baby's ear,
with lullaby of death, it encroaches.
It swallows cozy shelter, dock,...

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The sherbet orange light of a fall morning in Connecticut crackles with the scent pine. The lake’s parking lot overflows by nine thirty. The S.U.V.s park in a haphazard manor. The boat crew’s flight from reality – or the emersion in it—began in earnest hours...

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Written by Gail DeBole on May 9, 2017
Updated on October 6, 2022

Max the chimp was in awe of his find.
A termite meal that boggled his mind.
Thousands trapped in the hill
He took care not to spill
And did not leave one termite behind.

This time there were extra...

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I roam on an alley in stillness
My heels barely scratching the ground
As I recall your mouth sampling
Camembert and tang of pickles,
And weekends thereafter, same same
Dose of appetizers; laughter dripping
From your replayed stories...the taste
of cocktails, your skin just as intense.

Like so, spring arrives with the madness
of...

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appetizers are not uncomplimentary
they are food for gods and primitive man.
The ape is the apex as
Blood and Oranges are exceptionally 
eulogistic pleasing to the soul 
Down, down, down into the darkness of memory,
Gently they go - the panegyrical, the praiseful, boastful mammal…

Pay attention to the...

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Abundant finger food
Attractively garnished
Appealing to look at.
A pleasant aroma
And authentic flavors.
Appetizingly good
And nibbled with cocktails.

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