Best Chopsticks Poems

A chopstick is just a utensil.
But a chopstick can
trigger that
uncontrollable laughter
and smiles at the dinner table.
When one snaps, we chuckle.
When someone can’t use them properly,
we...

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T'was freezing cold and I struggled in the heat
I was pleased I'd put warm gloves on my feet
I shouldn't have been out on such a...

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Balaclava'd minister in a lanky limousine
Condomised personality inside a broken mask
Skewered chopsticks serve pieces of Pancolin
Toilet paper dolphins to wipe his weary ****

Ave Maria.. Amanita...

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Dumplings 

As I walk into the kitchen, for a snack, 
my mother, her apron, night black hair, and jade bracelet, 
 makes me dumplings.
She combines...

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The old upright piano sits flush against the wall,
has been hushed into silence, out on the sun porch 
Ignored, neglected, but standing erect 
I can...

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Her chopsticks are at the ready.
Her hands are good and steady.
She likes to knit her noodles!
The task has just begun...

She starts off with a mango...

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A Chinese lad was at table dawdling with his pork and rice.
This upset his mama-san who reprimanded him in a trice!
"Clean your plate!  Children...

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I want someone who likes that
  I talk to Buddha
  I love waterlilies
  I eat with chopsticks in blue Chinese dishes

I want...

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A Chinese professor from Bowes
used chopsticks when picking his nose
He’s down on his luck 
one chopstick got stuck -
he’s skipping his lunch I suppose!


N/A	in a...

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Today if I'm anxious I will listen to the wind.

I will hear the birds calling one another or just chirping to be heard.

I will look...

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The vegans eat their vegetables,
The carnivores their meat.
The gluten-haters stay away
From foods containing wheat.

The carbohydrate shunners
Won’t eat pasta, cake or bread
But can eat a pound...

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I was walking on a green field when a cyclone came and picked me up,
He wrapped me in dark whirlwind, so I screamed that no...

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Hot jasmine tea
My grandmother liked to drink
Everyday at 10
While tending to ancient herbs and oriental spices
Before Day’s of our Lives
She never understood it but she...

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I whispered lightly as a rose
To grease my oily bagpipe,
And sniffing with her hairy nose
A dwarf flew into sight.

‘Pull down your flabby chopsticks, man.’
She ordered...

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Eel or salmon sushi rolls
Nori or rice wrapped 
Served as roll or hand roll shapes 
Eaten with chopsticks 
Served with wasabi
And gari
Plants
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2-20-2016...

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