Best Dough Poems

 rolling in the dough
status quo
I’m watching bread grow




5/3/5
Syllable Count



Oct.10.2018
Baker's Dozen Poetry
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy


Placed 2'nd...

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Blowing up things, unfortunately,
Birth’s the printing of endless money.
By Gov’ments and world money makers,
That overwhelm global undertakers.

Yet we cry out that war is unsound,
That it spreads grief and guts all around.
Yet money printed that’s spent on death,
Shamefully gives our markets bad breath.

Which helps to inflate...

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Master
Baker

09~19~14
Contest: Any New Poem
Sponsor: Alfred Vassallo
~awarded 4th place ~...

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A tribute to Poetry Soup's Emilia James

I don't like to be namin' names,
but check out Emilia James.
You'll find your poetic reward
in the tale of an ant and his sword.

She mixes words into cookie dough
until she's got it, well...just so.
Then, for her next funny feature,
we can...

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Times where tight; means were lean
A newly minted bride; arrives upon the scene
Freshly baked bread; surely would please her man
She would serve at dinner; at least that was her plan
Never mind the fact; she knew not how to cook
Checked her new cookbook; to see just...

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To be in love with an African,
An unreasoning love, a Dough Affection
Holes all over My heart spilling love
The light in her eyes my Joy,
Her heart My heart's heart, 
A queen I could not forsake. 

An unreasoning love, a Dough affection, 
Your Dough,her priority
Her lame love...

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Like a child's play dough,
Life- shaped by society-
                    With all conditions....

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Aristotle Had No Play-Dough

Aristotle
Never liked to dawdle.
He studied under Plato
But by no means played with play-dough.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form: Clerihew...

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The CEO Is Rolling in Dough


By Elton Camp 


While the company workers’ pay may go down
The CEO surely has no reason he should frown

As it seems that corporations surely want to vie
To see which one can pay its CEO the most high

There’s no doubt the...

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whoomp, whoomp whoomp!
e'er night like dis
and I do love you
cause we special togetta
me and you we like
diamonds and gold
like sweet nectar and kisses
we just right for each otta
I mean love
real love
the kinda love yo bouis get jealous of
then they get all involed in yo business
and...

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SOUR DOUGH
NEED IT
BEAT IT
INTO SHAPES 
LIKE 
MAN

MAN
LIKE
JACK
KEROUAC
ON THE ROAD
TO YEASTDOM

THOUGH SOUR
LEMON 
SOUR LEMON
NEVER SOUR DOUGH 
ASK A ROBBER 
BARRON...

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A love so hot and tempting as rising dough,
     like fruit, oft' ripens during spring's brief life.
So feed the hunger! Bite the apple. Though
     some will judge you, let it not cause you strife.

“What role does Nature...

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[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g]

Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears
    Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom yeast in the air
      ...

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I
Bread has an everyday demanding presence, not daily dough
But daily fare across the miles, across ancient ways and wonders
Built by bread in bellies of slaves and laborers: pyramids and others

II
These days, when I say bread, I think of communion
The first with Abraham, when Melchisadek met...

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they drilled holes
and made long whining tunnels beneath
the surface.
they gathered all the plastics they could from around the world.
when they installed the fans in the tunnel
i still couldn't understand what this new way of
recycling meant to a world that
need to learn new things.
they burned and...

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