Best Marinates Poems

Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in your history,
Delicacies, trauma, and wisdom

I sense you riding within my soul
Opening my heart to depths yet unknown
I journey with you,...

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Roots of memory battered by erosion 
          a tempest that edits thought
Aunt Em fears "stupidity's spread"
          her words for Alzheimer's 
      ...

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I stand naked wrapped only in the truth
you vile, loathsome reptile.
My contempt of you is limitless
as I have been force-fed your hypocrisy.
Your postulations are lost on me
as my insight into your repulsive nature
is exceeded only by the palpable stench of your aura.
Eyes opened to their...

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Poets mute muse dreams
Strumming Earth's echoes to life
Soul marinates ink
Nature's strings compose sweet tunes
Vintage leaves dance like heartbeats...

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Many memories of my mother
making moist mellow macaroons 
marshmallows and Madeira cake,
minuscule madeleines, marvellous,
mum measures, marinates, melts,
more majestic meals.
My matriarch makes,
marmalade,
marzipan,
muffins,
mincemeat,
meringue.
mousse.
My meritorious mom mixes, merges, mingles,
melon,
mango,
mulberries,
Mandarins.
My maternal materfamilias, masterminds 
Mealtime masterpieces....

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RECIPE: "Poulet Roti" French Style - Le Chant Royal (Instalment 2)

             Stanza  I
COQ knows best how to pluck the wayward chicken
Quill by feather each pock-mark telltales French skill
Twisted beck wan crooked claws...

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lubed flesh marinates
ocean spray greases white flesh
sunbaked bodies steam...

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The Herbalist:-

She deals with herbs,
She collects the rarest herbs,
She creates new drugs,
She burns the weeds,
She smokes weeds,
She bedecks her bun with flowers,
She allures us with bluish ferns,
She looks beautiful in each turn!!
She is the bewitching herbalist,
She lets me inhale wildflowers,
She exhales aromatic odor,
She reddens her...

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Garden of Zen, showers of cherry blossoms dance pink on champagne air.            Taste of sunshine new on the tongue, winter’s bleak falling away, ides of March blow deep breath, morning songs perch on ivory...

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those early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning to a menagerie of new tools 
experiments with red and green chili
she chose to pursue red,...

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African war drums being beaten, baby hippos being aggressively eaten, be aware of your surroundings, for you never know when the predators peeping, life has so many facial features, hyenas run the jungle, while the lions are sleeping, she was healthy yesterday-n- sick on her...

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Unable to let feelings come to just slide by,
all poets feel life in tender seeing eyes.
Life marinates in a poet's empathy-rife heart,
to then cradle lay emotion in their core
until every angle of feel has been stored.
All a poet reality-feels is written unconcealed
as is somehow required...

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X is the second part of EXPENSE, the acrostic series.......

X-tremely NOT un-cheap! X-ray my pain that’s been going off track like a 
wacko, kid’s train…you got me sidetracked and distracted on the road of 
ecstatic paradise & entangled reverie… it drives me to insanity &...

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E is the beginning of EXPENSE, the acrostic series.......

Expensive…Imagination caught my eye…I couldn’t afford losing you badly, 
even if you’re worth is worth a pair of decent-looking shoes, but what are 
really made of in the inside? Slip your feet inside my shoes for one...

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gangs and murderers running through our streets faster than clam chowder through me

lawless thugs taking over the local jerk-stop motel that caters to whores and the more than
 
occasional cheating spouse

booby trapped meth labs rigged to explode upon entry killing our heroes that save our...

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