Best Palates Poems

For years before the narrow windows of my senses
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Words in italic by Angeline Lim
Words in regular font by Timothy Hicks



Hydrangea blues
blooming in seven colors
versatile at heart
 
Storm clouds in a tantrum and yet
the...

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French Bread
	
	
	Your index finger 
	draws figure-eights 
	in the dusting of flour 
	on the counter top 
	where you lean
	quite casually, 
	watching as I make 
	a loaf...

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He writes to me in curly cues painting 
fractals on pressed paper made of rice.
Shreds of simple stalks are beaten to 
bare the smoothness of...

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Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it 
be salted? It is henceforth cast out,...

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Know Thyself
(one of the two Delphic commands of Apollo)



For years before the narrow windows of my senses
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The lowly turnip
Earthy, fleshy
Roots falling from its eyes
Fed to  livestock
One of God’s root crops
Yet deemed  untasty
By most palates 

Carrots and potatoes
Receive accolades
Carrots in...

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Cardboard boxes, full of surprises;
celebratory treasures rest,
beneath the evergreen branches; 
stacks of color.

Bellies smiling, hiding 
delectable, culinary delights. 
My child-heart swells with joy, 
while palates...

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Surfing the web is an imperfect science
          Putting the screws to each steadfast alliance

And while it...

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Even though you may not be looking, always believe that love is cooking.Quote - Poet’s own
Bake love each day the whole of your life
Mixed with...

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Cheese lovers possess
Dancing palates, tapping taste buds
And smiles…joyous cheese!
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Water lapping at edge of the boat beneath the silence of the sky
Swaying branches of mopane trees and fish eagles cry
Wind of changing seasons and...

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Lucky Dip  (cut-out poem)
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fish
for a
bargain
affordable 
at a discount
where the majority
of shoppers
with
their 
cuddly puppies
watch time 
go
by
savouring
fresh
quality
fruit & veg
followed
by 
stuffed pork rolls
and
mousse dessert
with
dark
exquisite sweetness
for
demanding palates
where
quality costs...

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When dictators purchase our guns,
we wade through blood to deliver.
And take their cash without remorse
while riddled bodies still quiver.

Big egos and pampered palates
impose subsistence starvation.
And...

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Hydrangea blues
                blooming in seven colors
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