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Best Pressure Cooker(A) Poems

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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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), body, break up, humorous,
Form: Limerick



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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), animals, nature
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), night,
Form: Free verse
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,...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pressure cooker(a), community, farm, food,
Form: Narrative
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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), 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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), 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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), 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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), 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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), 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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), 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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), april, august, autumn, beach,
Form: I do not know?
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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), irony,
Form: Free verse
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...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), slam,
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”...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), adventure, age, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose
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

brought
their
European presents

translucent onions tango
with aroma and flavor
sizzle in open
pressure cooker

heritable Hungarian paprikash
chicken...

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Categories: pressure cooker(a), family, food,
Form: Ode

Book: Shattered Sighs