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Chili Poems - Poems about Chili

Premium Membermamas chili is better than ever

Mama’s chili pot put out a call
Wanting a variety of beans in the fall
Forty-nine types of beans showed up in all
Auditions were conducted by me and Saul

Lima beans were boring, dull and bland.
Chili beans are always close at hand.
Pork and beans were stuck up and snobby.
Garbanzo beans were hard and knobby.

We finally chose six types
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Categories: chili, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLee the Fabulous Chili Maker

Lee considered himself the most famous chili maker in the west
Added tobacco, Heinz 57, cinnamon, gave it a big taste test
We had heard about his concoctions, and could not wait.
The first bite was terrible, second bitter, the third one a bad fate.

What about this stew had given him a glowing review?
We could not keep our
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Categories: chili, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



chili event at thedepot

ship’s chief is a head chef. - I was that day 
 I made my Dragon’s Breath chili with less heat
Some folks found the heat mild;some  ed -ok
I put out extra heat as s a treat

I made my Dragon’s Breath chili with less heat
The chili had veggies,meat sauce and beans
I put out extra heat
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Categories: chili, food,
Form: Pantoum

Premium MemberPattys Perfect Pot of Piquant Chili

Patty’s perfect pot of piquant chili hit my pallet hard
It is hot, tasty, sharp, tangy, made with grandma’s lard.
What a strong zesty kick, this chili has, my stomach laughed.
My own chili is less provocative, less biting, by maybe half.

There is a secret ingredient, my aunts told me but she will never tell.
We went through Patty’s
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Categories: chili, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Hot Chili

Just by your color:
Red, makes me hot; how much more
Now, you're in my food.
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Categories: chili, color, engagement, food, perspective,
Form: Senryu



Premium Memberno one eats the same chili at my house

I fix the best chili I can
But my family has to doctor it up
One of my daughter adds cinnamon
Something she learned
When grandma accidentally used it
Instead of chili powder

My son has to dump a pound of cheese on the top
My husband motions for him to hand the rest of the cheese over.
The little one whines that
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Categories: chili, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberChili contest

Everyone keeps asking "are you signing up?"-
Yeah on the other shift
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Categories: chili, work,
Form: Monoku

Red Hot Chili Pepper Poker Face

Red hot chili pepper poker face...

Born that way angry antithetical 
mailer daemon when...
all of Christendom bows their collective 
talking heads in supplication,
a temporary truce and reprieve 
against bigotry, deviltry, idolatry (nah),  
et cetera across the nation.

Yuletide pageant merry doth go round
where credo, ethos, and 
faith no more jinxes webbed, wide world, 
nevertheless soul asylum
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Categories: chili, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHot Chili Pepper Dance

These spicy banana peppers are hotter than hot.
My annoyed esophagus yells “Not! Not! Not! Not! Not! Not!”
They dance around and down my gullet from the crockpot.
Temperature there is turned up to about a thousand watt.

Some weird stranger asks me, “Is this what you brought?”
Jalapeno and banana peppers tangled in a dancing knot?
My overeager tummy is
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Categories: chili, food,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberThe Chili Cook-Off and the Aftermath

Two old guys who won ribbons each year
made a bet as the contest drew near:
If just one of them placed,
then the other, in haste,
would eat two quarts of chili, with beer.

For a change, kudos came to just one.
The hot chili with beer was no fun
for the poor loser Bart
who for two days did fart
while Joe
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Categories: chili, food, loss, pride,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberJust Add Some Chili

Stanley's Mom made the blandest pot of soup
When you ate a bowl, your eyelids would droop
   Mom added hot chili
   'Twas Stanley's achilles
He took one bite and let out a war whoop
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Categories: chili, cry, food, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMiss All That At the Chili Cook Off

Miss All That (MAT) came in all prissy; serious cooks laughed a scoff.
Dare this woman think she’d make the finals in the ultimate cook off?
Something wrong with her we decided; her waist was too thin for sure.
We are serious chefs, burly with shaved heads who create chili pure.

Slimy's secret ingredient gives you flatulence and burps
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Categories: chili, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChili

There are many kinds of chili found in America's Southwest.
Everybody has a hard time deciding who's the best.
Maybe it can be found in Texas or Oklahoma.
Some say to go to New Mexico or Arizona.
Probably the best is further west in California.
Others might try their luck somewhere in Nevada.
Wanting to try them all will be a
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Categories: chili, food, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWarm House With Homemade Chili

I smell chili powder, onions simmering
Salivate over chocolate brownies that are too hot to frost
Wild neon paintings liven up this room; my own works of art.
I hear my husband’s TV set, it is loud, and there is gunfire.

I smell something lemon, possibly dishwashing detergent.
Follow my nose to the sink. My husband has washed it!
Not a
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Categories: chili, food, home,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhen Summer Fades To Chili Time

Elation wanes upon graying skies and a chill pierces the bronzed flesh. Pondering the thrills of rollicking ocean waves,
I catch the scent of a warm wood fire burning in the distance.

A pitchfork toss of compost upon the plucked ground; next spring’s planting will be well-planned through the chilly months.  I sit by the fire
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Categories: chili, autumn, poems, poetry, seasons,
Form: Free verse

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