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Best Pressure Cooker Poems


Trying To Sleep
...I am trying to sleep here; can someone let the world know?

Somewhere the pressure cooker whistles, 
Rises in the night air, the smell of pulao rice.

The peddler selling eggs on his final tour,......

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Categories: pressure cooker, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Exploded Like a Pressure Cooker
...THE IDIOM I MADE UP IS  - HE EXPLODED LIKE A PRESSURE COOKER

My son has returned to our home
He’s mouthy and just loves to moan
Now nothing is right
We constantly fight
He’s......

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Categories: pressure cooker, body, break up, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Canning Days Back Home
...Germ-free Mason jars, hot from the pot of boiling water, gurgling on the cast iron wood stove, stood ready to receive the fruits and vegetables, fresh from the fields and orchards. Lids and sealing r......

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Categories: pressure cooker, community, farm, food,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Hillary Clinton
...(prior to tha ode dee us political stink sans hillary rodham clinton, i scrawled out this poem. her likelihood to grasp to political mantle than considerably greater than  fourteen months when anothe......

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Categories: pressure cooker, conflict, funny, gender, hero,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Puddin Day Christmas Begins
...Puddin  Day
Christmas Begins

they come on a Saturday 
in November, the Puddin People,
brothers, sisters, nieces arrive.
family with their arms full of parcels 
sacks bulging with ingredients
......

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Categories: pressure cooker, beautiful, christmas, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Shoulda Read the Fine Print
...
So many years ago, in my teen years,
   our mom received a gift, her newest 'toy',
      a Presto pressure cooker added to
her kitchen to create meals we'd enjoy.

Split pea soup recipe sh......

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Categories: pressure cooker, food, mom, stress,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member A Baby Cries
...A baby cries all night "mommie"
No one answers her feeble plea  
Soon the baby's cries stop-dried up
As her speech halts and emotions' cup

The adult carries the hurt child
Every snub, hurt......

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Categories: pressure cooker, forgiveness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Pilgrimage North
...The suburban pressure cooker expelled its multiethnic horde north. Laden with implements of leisure, bicycles, kayaks, canoes and camping gear; world weary travelers of urban and suburban bent surged......

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Categories: pressure cooker, adventureurban,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Waitress Manifesto
...the noose around my neck only a little colorful scarf on my last day as a slave

to the chefs always screaming their short comings as it's never the fault of the pressure cooker of the kitchen

t......

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Categories: pressure cooker, celebrity, work, drug,
Form: Free verse
Plip Plop Plip Plop Pickle Playing Clock
...Penny dropped circular clocks on carved out emblematic wisdom cones. Be careful if it rains coal dust as radioactive drones, mobile phones, and teapots too could all gather to form lines of imperiali......

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Categories: pressure cooker, april, august, autumn, beach,
Form:
The Derby Race
...A woman of thousand hands,
Never I could imagine,
When I was just Ten,
My Mother said she has,
At twenty five, after my marriage,
I really found those thousand hands,
Attached very close to my ......

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Categories: pressure cooker, irony,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rush Amid the Rapids Published
...The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil,......

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Categories: pressure cooker, adventure, age, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose
I 2 Have a Dream
...i 2 have a dream

That one day

The poor will have enough
to eat and change to spare

Every child has both a 
mother and father

And clean water to drink

And the sad and bleak

Who end......

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Categories: pressure cooker, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bears In the Pressure Cooker
...Species fall to extinction every week
Of natural selection, scientists speak
But habitat destruction is caused by man
Who neglects to take an environmental stand

Ozone depletes as gas poisons t......

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Categories: pressure cooker, animals, nature
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Paprika
...ODE TO PAPRIKA

greenhouse surrounded by
plucked plethora
of paprika peppers
fertile field of deep red

souls departed
their
homeland

rock-a-bye seas

......

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Categories: pressure cooker, family, food,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things