Best Cooks Poems

“Who cooks for you?”
asked the Bard.

Who prepares your meal?
Do you sup alone?
Any condiments?
Salt perhaps?
Spices?

What are you hungry for?
What appeals to your taste?

When you rise in the morning,
What do you desire?
Is it even food?

Or do you look to satisfy something else?
For what do you hunger?

But aside...

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I heard a saying long before
Too many cooks spoil the broth sure
I think it proves right
With one another they fight
The man dodges or they little to share.

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Ninth Placement
Contest: To die for Limericks...

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George had under him five cooks
of various characters and looks
with great experience of many a year
in numerous countries both far and near,
all culinary experts of great art,
who were always ready to provide
any dish the customer might decide
to order from the menu cards.
And among these fellows...

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Daddy went out to do some fishing,
And he caught himself a pike.
He put it in a basket,
And brought it home upon his bike.
He threw it in a frying pan,
With a little pad of butter.
Dusted it with salt and pepper,
And we had it for our supper.
Daddy...

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Hope Cooks Its Morning Meal



Dark shadows of death it enshrouds,
roaring lightning in storming clouds
Flames it destroys as it dares burn
Hope lives and truly enjoys its turn

Sunset may cloak beauty of the hills
long before creeping dawn-time chills
Yet its mercy screams out very loud
candlelight given unto good...

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A Cook’s Battle 

The ship -cook was tired it had been a long day, the ship was old 
full of cockroaches, one had found its way in his bread dough and 
when the captain cut a slice of bread it was there, a brown raisin;...

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They say that,
“too many cooks, spoil the soup”;
indeed, they spoil everything.

Political cooks, halfway cook the meal; 
leaving raw, tough meat and chewy bread; 
they bicker all the while; 
serving under cooked dinners.

Legal cooks, waste time cutting corners 
and their incessant digging,
in the wrong direction, 
produces...

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To let other Poets into your kitchen,
 …. a true recipe for disaster

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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The Chef

As the Bourdain said a cook is nobody
he has no power no one cares what he has to say
some of them are gifted with a natural talent for food and its ingredient 
and flashes of inspiration can fire the spark that is godlike.
I knew...

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Too many cooks, who should never look to cook,
Too many cooks, who should never start to cook,
Too many cooks, who should never be paid to cook,

Too many cooks, without any recipes to cook,
Too many cooks, without any clues to cook,
Too many cooks, without any boots...

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COOKS



She can produce something out of nothing.
She  uses  water hot or water cool,
She’s mixing, kneading, always stirring,
She seems to follow no known rule.


Not like me, I need  thinking, planning, 
Select ingredient,  all instructions, special  tool.
When it’s pressure cooking I need...

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Never in my lifetime have I seen,
In any of the places I have been,
So many who have an infinite supply of steam, 
Who to stir the pot are keen.

Day or night they are to be seen,
Discussing the best way to stir the pot clean,
Never asking...

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I met a man whose name was Dan
He used a bird to cook on pan
Pan was cheap so bird got burnt
A lesson that he learned
Use a better bird, said the man...

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If a broth can be spoiled 
By too many cooks
That advice can, as well, be applied
To a patient consulting 
With too many docs
To determine what problem's inside.

Each one hopes he can help 
But conflicting reports 
Put the questioner into a tizzy
And the tests and the...

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Taped to the door’s plexiglass pane, a portrait
Of a Savior with ardent heart burning
Sunlight invades with the turning of hinges
Untethering the hospitality of Tony, the lone waiter
His Brazilian arms are swinging doors, open to embrace
He wore fishnet leggings to the Halloween Jamboree
Leather corset paired with...

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