Best Ingredients Poems

Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized by nature’s appeal;
Ageless genuine emotional traces
sifted thru heart rendered graces; 
Equal parts family and romantic love
as roasted within, without and...

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Sweetness and sourness of life
depends on the seasoning of emotions.
We are blessed with the gift of birth,
but our thoughts are processed
using different ingredients.

We all explore paths to euphoria,
but passengers we pass by,
sprinkle their own nourishing memories,
upon our picnic of existence.

Pain persecutes everyone,
despite the diversity of
gender,...

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Ingredients To Achieve A Dream - Panagiota Romios

Dream Recipe: Ingredients 

Have a huge dream that seems unachievable! 
Be fearless and put up pictures of that dream all over your house. 
Invite your God to mentor you and  then close your ears. 
As the world is replete with...

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Have a huge dream that seems so unachievable!
Be fearless and put up pictures of that dream all over your house.
Invite your God to mentor you and  then close your ears.
As the world is replete with nay-sayers out to choke you with fear.
You think I am supercilious or dallying...

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[David Kavanagh’s recent poem, ‘Of Infinity’ so
astonished me in its similarity to my own pet
theory, that I was inspired to finish this poem 
that I had been struggling to get right.]

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What's a sweeter gift than love?
What's the greatest wealth than hope?
What's a richer state than faith?

It behooves you to live by your faith,
And keep aflame the spirit of love,
Woe befalls him who derides hope:

Nothing is drearier than a life bereft of hope,
And he's a lost...

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i prepared a simple supper
but with great love i cooked 
that main meat of refined wheat
durum semolina, traded as rotini

an Italian pasta to go with beef, a grace
from a Canadian cow grazed in prairie grass,
spiced with herbs from the hunted tropics:
ginger, garlic, turmeric, and coriander

powdered,...

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Being mindful has several ingredients
Non-judging
Patience
Beginners mind
Trust
Non-striving
Acceptance
And 
Letting go-coming to present moment noticing  You alive
 Have large responsibility to guide your life with compassion
 Wisdom
 loving kindness to yourself and to others...

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sonata for the flute and piano
adding
some slices
of a sunrise tasted with the friends
and a calm sleep on the sand

for the brioche with bilberries
I cut the almonds
I break the nuts
in this August evening
the sky releases the colours- like the agate

on the seashore
at the "Seamagic"
torrents of musical...

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There’s this stranger
I must have known her before, from a past life
It’s impossible to be so connected with anyone this way unless...
Can you hear the sound of Cebu from there?
Are you familiar with the morning cooking? 
The sound they make when they sautee garlic
The AM...

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What are the true
Ingredients of love
Is it honesty 
Is it commitment
Is it faithfulness 
or could it be all three
can someone tell me
Is this how true love should be

Love is an action
It's not just a spoken word
show them that you care
display your love everywhere

show them by...

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This year makes 10 years since I've been an ingredient in this soup,
Due to lifes' journey, been in and out like a belt through pants loop,
Over the years I've read some great poetry, made some great friends,
If you're just joining this group, we welcome you...

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To dwell in paradise
In company of the noble Prophet
Get these ingredients
And have a share in the everlasting merriments
Shaadah
It is to testify
That no other deity is worthy of worship but Allah
And that Muhammed is His messenger
Solah
It is to worship Allah 5 times a day
Yield to the...

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Above the Lady's mantle
lay the Angel's trumpet
Fairy wings
on the flower head
& moon dew upon a peacock feather
Belladonna light the candles
unite your brew
& sip from the chalice





(A little poem ((or should I say potion)) for Halloween)...

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What does she store
In those terrible jars
Above the fireplace

They look to have crazy things
Like spider and newt eyes

What ingredients
Does she still keep around
What spells are they for
 
I would hate to fall 
Victim to one of her curses
Turning me into a newt

This dark curse would...

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