Best Cookout Poems

~Brown Rice cooked with kidney beans
   Southern home flavor
   Curried chicken and ginger
   With  pear preserve sauce
 ...

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Let's go outside with all the food we've got. 
Don't stay in the kitchen, it's way too hot. 
Get out the grill and light up...

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She reached for the ribbons of her gown
not knowing why, but she held them in her hand
as she floated through the ever changing mist,
whites and...

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Cooling off in falling months, approaching dusk.
Coordinated chill and quilting of snow, brusque.
Cooking lots of soup, beating down dough,
as the wind whoops on a weeping...

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As a writer of fiction novels, I positively basked in my work,
Story ideas lived in my head, as blue stars at twilight lurk.

Yes, I was...

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Leaves
swirling
as birds wing
south for winter
amethyst rose skies
sail over burning bush
unending fields of pink and
purple dianthus cast their gaze
as sun heads off to the land of...

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PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not...

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~The Wicked Witches~
(Trine)


The witches gather happily under the moonlight
They're planning to fly in their brooms tonight.

They laugh and cackle full of mischief very loud
The wicked...

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sittin' on the back porch,
drinkin' gran'ma's brew;
lots of free time on my hands,
can't think of what to do

i wanna strip naked,
go lay out in the...

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Life is hard, tough, rough, like a brilo-pad
Growing up, street smart was all I had
I had no choice but to turn to the hood
It's difficult...

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Bright sunshine dappled
at the gay affair,
in a park so green.
There was revelry,
laughter, food and dance,
and at times romance.
The blooms blazed colors,
lit up by the sun.
The...

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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...

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I boil eggs and potatoes,
chopping them up with
celery and onions to
mix well with mayo.
This is my picnic's
delish side
 DISH!

(Truly my favorite food at a cookout!...

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wow i've never seen such a small city with so many curves and hills
till i moved back down south to the town of coffeeville
alot of...

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I had no cookout to attend
With loads of barbecue;
My spirits needed perking up,
So what’s a gal to do?

I hurried to a Shake Shack
With the energy...

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