Best Seasoning Poems

crows collecting twigs

                              peppering the neighbourhood -

                   ...

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Salting
 s e a s o n' s
 stew.




Written 15 July 2021

In Just A Few Words 2 Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Joseph May....

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Thousands of students of decades
Across the nation, 
Have loads of issues with grades 
And lack of motivation.

A retention to learning,
With parents calling 
And graduation rates falling.
It's beginning to be so concerning,
That teachers even notice,
These kids aren't learning.

The propositions the school has given,
Halted the adults' beliefs they thought they knew.
School psychologist’s are anything but driven,
And their...

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Watermelon seed spitting, popsicle licking and locust humming songs;
Summer scenes etched in dark crevices.

Leave pile diving, pumpkin’s smiling, crackling fires with s’mores;
Falling breathlessly, covering mistakes and guilt.

Tongues catching snowflakes, sledding down slopes, hot chocolate parties;
Frozen heart kiss to melt fears and fallacies.

Tulips, May Day baskets, Barefoot puddle dances;
Spring cleaning cobwebs, dusting off today....

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If keen a goldfinch knits, loops and entwines
through hawthorn, urgent instinct loosens free. 
It's bright with flash that crimson blaze enshrines;
as summer scorches red, it could be me
when lying prone on beach or under tree,
in pensive mood when I gaze out to sea. 

If darkened lakes with troubled waves reflect
a dying forest's lonely leafless tree;
when...

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After seasoned hours in the kitchen
the cook hates to hear.."please pass the salt"


For the PASS contest.......

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We’re no strangers to perceptible sacrifice
so, we’ve put all flavors of fun on ice.
Einsteining overnight - alone - is
about as exciting as a windows phone.

But I’ve been-to-the-show as a pinckney,
and in my years of parental-stalking analyses
the juice is definitely worth the squeeze.

Soon holiday parties will be made gold 
by candlelight and champagne cold.
We’ll decorate with...

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A day meant for repose and renewal?
And planning ahead for the week to come
He sat with a barrel under his knees
Calm in demeanor with eyes at ease
He peeled potatoes in quantities of many
His hands must of felt crude and stingy
From the iodine reaching his cut callous hands
The aroma of sauteing onions rising in the kitchen
It...

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back at the Arab Spring
and now a Wall Street Fall
citizens of foundering faith
just wanna change it all

believing in a higher purpose
is passing the way of the horse
power to too few, or many, versus
the prospect of anarchy, of course

can an untouchable or a herder
share with a CEO or Senator
can a cashier and a shop helper
turn from...

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Sorry, but ...


I just don't understand at all,

               Why people want to rush the fall?


Winter's coming, cold and rough,

               And fall will be here ... soon enough.


The...

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Sugar brown, paprika dark,
salt, coarse, garlic spark.
Cayenne’s portion in our club?
Spicy heat is best,
dicey for our guest.
Aye, there’s the
rub!

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For the Whats Cooking on the Grill This Summer? Poetry Contest
Sponsored by M. L. Kiser
Written on 06/03/2022...

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Now Summer slumbers
As Fall takes her rightful place
And Winter awakes...

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Lyricvixen's Louisiana Boneless Fried Chicken

Lyricvixen's Louisiana Boneless Fried Chicken
1.) 4 - 6 medium small  =  raw boneless chicken strips
2.) 1/2 cup  =  flour  (used self-rising or any)
3.) 1/4 cup  =  Louisiana Seasoning, crispy fish fry (or the hot one)

(small bowl)

A.) cooking oil  - I don't us a...

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Woke a clock, watch it drop,
Gave the floor, a purpose for,
Day to gaze, greenery phase,
Sunshine raise, bloomed sprays,

Lapped route through a calm beach,
Sun nigh zenith's grasp for breach,
I bunched up withered leaves,
Facial pleasures that it achieves,

Cast against the candles glow,
Snaps a full day's engaging show,
Journeyed me towards my keep,
Bird to unfold, wake whilst asleep,

Life's richness...

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Soft as gossamer, dew fresh, new,
Primrose painted with life anew,
Regeneration breathes in the earth,
Indications of nature's new birth,
Nascent and fragile, burgeoning life,
Glows and grows like a pregnant wife.

Sultry and sated, feted and frazzled,
Under blue sky the parched earth dazzled,
Midsummer madness and trips to the sea,
Melancholy moments and Devon cream tea,
Evenings of torpor, humid and hot,
Radiant...

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