Best Seasonings Poems

A Seasoning of Scent

Each season wears the scent of its own seasoning
A signature perfume – wafting spice that beckons 
Awakening 
When my memories come out...

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Listen to the beautiful
Lingering in the tender voices
Mingling with soup, potatoes, chunks
Light joy, garlicky seasonings
Inspiration falling, blending voices
Temptations burning
Away the darkness, the black yearnings

Remember the...

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Mornings, light and smiling
Coffee brewing, black
Meat frying in a cast iron skillet
Grease, flour and milk, stirred together
Gravy poured over steaming biscuits
Granny’s breakfast – typically
Grown to...

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The noise broils over in the heat
And spread out like wares along the street
The haze of crowd, the jungled feet
Fresh scent of soil and the...

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A pinch of salt, a dab of pepper, a spinkle of Mrs.Dash
Lets mix it all together
Gifted hands starting at the age five
Helping grandma in the...

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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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P erchance has anyone seen something fishy
I n the pot of soup we all like to eat?
R aucous spices of refute with long spikey teeth.
A...

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I have been gone for a while
needed time to regroup
this delectable mixture
this poetry soup

When I am not here
I wonder with query
uplifting comments of Karen Leary

Kristin...

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Yummy Lasagna

Sweet Italian sausage kissed by lean ground beef.
Crushed onions and garlic browned in olive oil.
Seasoned by thyme, oregano, and fresh basil leaf.
Parsley, pepper, and...

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Adjusting Appetizing Palates.
I have sampled the variety,
I am the one who has tasted life;
The one who has had a taste of life.
Rarely indulged in the...

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Once two of my least favorite veggies in the world,
I realized just how quickly life can change on you
Through the course of time
How sudden the...

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Momentary lapse of reasoning
behind exemplary seasonings 
give way to life's spicy habanero 
awesomesauce.
Life's seasoning of sweet-&-sour puckers
Sweet puckering of every souring breath.

Life's wicked stammer nailing...

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A dash of dill is never dull;
It gives the soup some flavor.
With salt and several seasonings,
It helps the sipper savor.

The dried variety is fine
But if...

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Wet August
Umbrella mushrooms;
Bumper harvest

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Cultured frog pond
Fresh amphibious meat;
Gourmet lifestyle

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Chinese seventh month
Hungry ghosts loiter;
Earth-bound vacation

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Chinese customs 
Before life, this life,
Afterlife connections

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House by the woods
Solitary presence:
No one...

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My mommy makes the best burgers in town
She goes to the markets around
Shops for steak called ground round
She tells the butcher to grind her a...

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