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Best Foodstuffs Poems

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'tis the Season To Be Jolly
Another year is nearly finished with,

And carol singers knock, or ring my bell; 

I sit in darkness, telly turned down low -

I’ll keep my quid...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foodstuffs, holiday, christmas, christmas,
Form: Rhyme



The Rat Race
We're furry and coloured grey, brown, or black
Be-whiskered and sleek and reeking of fat
We'll squeeze through a hole, a gap, or a crack
For rotting flesh...

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Categories: foodstuffs, animal, dark, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Give Me Clarity, Not Parody
Its a conundrum to me.? In Ukraine i see; farmers
Complaining they can't farm' because of wars harm
The E U did help, droppling tariffs no stealth.'
In...

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Categories: foodstuffs, allusion, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
This Ghoul Dolled Up
Whether the weather 
necessitates to anchor 
     myself as a tether
when the frankenstorm 
     socks the east...

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Categories: foodstuffs, autumn, boy, dark, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Adventures In Childrearing
Mad Max and the Thunderdome
 Matinee at the brand new  cine
money for tickets but little else
Indeed we had not any

my purse the repository 
Each...

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Categories: foodstuffs, fun, together,
Form: Rhyme



Kellyn Hodges
above named entitled african american orthodontist 
   crowned specialist exemplary de jure by this dad
sans perfecting offset dentition of me daughter – shana...

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Categories: foodstuffs, black african american, daughter,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Cleavont Lil Jr
My name is Cleavont 'Lil Jr., Son of Cleavont 'Lil.  I am the son of whitefolk, but through treacherous sodomist acts I am a...

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Categories: foodstuffs, racism, drug,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Black Powder, Paradise
I consider it ...
with indifference, at first ...
the black charcoal powder coating the sole of my boot ...
I slap at it casually and watch it...

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Categories: foodstuffs, analogy, death, fire, horror,
Form: Free verse
The Deep Sea
Ocean
always provides
human’s daily foodstuffs,
corpses also remain buried
below....

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Categories: foodstuffs, life,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Before Toussaint and Jean Jacques Dessalines
Before
Toussaint and Dessalines
It was nothingness
Organs, guts and spleens
Of our ancestors could be found alongside the roads
Many fleeing poor slaves in disarray
Were treated worse than animals
Oh!...

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Categories: foodstuffs, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
John Stark's Glory, Part I
Back in seventeen seventy-seven,
British general John Burgoyne faced hard times,
despite winning at Hubbardton, and Fort Anne,
supplies were getting very hard to find.

When word came that...

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Categories: foodstuffs, america, conflict, freedom, hero,
Form: Epic
Bah Humbug
Bah Humbug

Christmas comes but once a year,
With that I am in tune
But what makes me shake in fear
Are the cards in store arriving, during the...

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Categories: foodstuffs, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thats Settled Then
The shock that I felt was enormous,
as the tab on the cat food I pulled,
a fountain of biscuits shot out of the top-
the box, it...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foodstuffs, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stranger Than Fiction Part 3
Again Brother Paul said that “I didn’t owe them anything, but to do someone a good turn one day.”I shook his hand and thanked him...

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Categories: foodstuffs, death, religious, world war
Form: Prose
Premium Member Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
JUSTICE

They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures 
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled 
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children...

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Categories: foodstuffs, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things