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Best Red Pepper Poems

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Red Pepper
Red pepper is a kind fire
burning without flames
causing eyes to rain without clouds
sitting on own cool hot  stool
never causing wild bush-fire
giving suckling babies hot...

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Categories: red pepper, metaphor, political, power,
Form: Free verse



Shiny Nickels
Mama ate her collard greens with raw onions, pinching a 
morsel of greens with sweet cornbread, as juicy pork 
neckbones lay naked of meat. 

The...

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© Sona Wilae  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: red pepper, black african american, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member One, Won, Once
One ,Won, Once
			By Chuck Keys

Brightness can be blinding
With your eyes closed
Or with your eyes open.

Darkness can be blinding
With your eyes closed
Or with your eyes open.

As...

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© Chuck Keys  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: red pepper, friendship, history, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Abominable Snowman
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN

it started out white
but the late snow was weeks old.
results were a fright –
those red pepper lips, corn teeth,
tomato ketchup eyes,

the tire-track forehead,
the...

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Categories: red pepper, seasons,
Form: Tanka
Ingredients
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...

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Categories: red pepper, adventure, care, caregiving, community,
Form: Free verse



Kim-Chee
Cabbage is pickled in a glass jar with plenty of red pepper.
Buried underground, it lies undisturbed as it ferments away.
It takes several months of aging...

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Categories: red pepper, food,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Didactic Food Cajun Pasta
One pot Cajun pasta
We are going to totally enjoy this one hot spicy Cajun pasta
Easy to make for a weekend meal
The sense of smell explores...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: red pepper, food,
Form: Didactic
Life In the Bottle
As I stagger to my room…my vision in a haze and my guts steering like a stew, my eyes 
look like a ripe red pepper...

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Categories: red pepper, lifeme, family, day, drink,
Form: Narrative
I Love Ya, Damn-It
I love your acsent' it makes me want to kiss you!

16 fillet catfish/ or seabass

1/4 cup of McCormick seasoning
2 Tablespoons of garlic powder
2 Tablespoons of...

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Categories: red pepper, food, music,
Form: Ballade
The Master Chef of Words
The man boiled his manifesto
with dry red pepper and ginger
those who taste it, young and old
shade tears of  wit at table...

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Categories: red pepper, leadership, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
Love Thang
in a hot skillet
add olive oil
garlic
persimmons
onions
sauté unitl onions are translucent
add apples
fresh ginger
cabbage
mushrooms
(wilt cabbage)
remove from pan,
in the same skillet
add ground duck and ground lamb
stir to brown
add...

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Categories: red pepper, food, french, lust, meaningful,
Form: Ballad
The Furry of Curry
The spice in the curry mirrors my anger.
Angry of being a part of a race with no peace.
The small bits of red pepper scatter
Like the...

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Categories: red pepper, death, food, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tale a Giraffe Took a Long Time To Swallow
The young giraffe ate a hot red pepper
The poor animal felt like a leper.
The spicy fruit was too hot and it took
Her long to digest...

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Categories: red pepper, animal,
Form: Couplet
Before Every Dream
Most night
I spend them counting, in thoughts
Like being trap inside a cocoon; it’s dark and quiet
It’s a little daunting
It’s why I always have my eyes...

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Categories: red pepper, allegory, dream, heaven, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Frosty's Squeeze
Frosty's squeeze was Freckles Snow
and frosty saw her well.
Her button eyes would warm his heart
and leave him weak to tell.

Her smile was like a clever...

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Categories: red pepper, absence, appreciation, beauty, character,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things