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Cookers Poems - Poems about Cookers


Premium MemberDig What I Say

...Say, dig what I say
Talkin’ bout a new jazz vibe/
Man, move over/
the Jazz Cookers are hittin’ their stride in the groove to stay alive/
Eddie Henderson/
Cecil McBee/
George Cables,Billy Hart
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Categories: cookers, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

One More Chance

...I can feel the heat raging inside me and sweat purging out of my flesh, it is a sudden sensation that comes upon me that leaves me grasping for breath. The sun has just risen casting rays of hope upo...
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Categories: cookers, best friend, business, devotion,
Form: Narrative



Thalia For Science In Nigeria

...Her name is simply Thalia!
Does that sound unfamiliar?
A science foundation in an old city
Volunteering to tackle The Gritty, 
Here in Nigeria accomplish
What her compatriots wish;
Like fingers...
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Categories: cookers, appreciation, beauty, education, money,
Form: Rhyme

Crumpled Thoughts

...The declining years,dominated by sulky bone
When she endured herself as a crone
Yearned for gossips,giggles and grin
Chitter chatter and companion conversation about who would win
Asking her a re...
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Categories: cookers, anxiety, blessing, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme

The Fracturing Empire

...The top has always been nothing but rough and tumble.
But things really started to get bad when the bottom began to crumble.
Race and gender have always needed to have been handled carefully.
Now ...
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Categories: cookers, america, political,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium MemberUnwoven Memories

...I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.

Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial q...
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Categories: cookers, culture, family, farm, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry

This Christmas

...Unending expectations
Can lead to so much dread
Money always spent
Could be paid on bills instead
This commercial time of year
Can end in such a mare
Alcohol drank in haste
might not get you t...
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Categories: cookers, christmas,
Form: Verse

Everyday American Irritations

...GROGGY BEDHEAD NO COFFEE SHUT THE BLINDS .... PRESIDENTIAL NO GOOD CHOICES TELIVISION SIGNAL GLITCH SMEAR ART CAMPAIGN... LATE NIGHT REHEATED RERUN RETWEEKED RETWEETED MORNING NEWS?....
MORE RAIN TO...
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Categories: cookers, america, anxiety, celebrity, conflict,
Form: Blitz

Premium MemberHere Come the Hungarians

...HERE COMES THE HUNGARIANS

A sign hangs like a star upon a building:
“HERE COME THE HUNGARIANS”
Delicious dishes that will please
The American and European palate.

My sisters on the right and...
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Categories: cookers, food,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Way Home - 2nd Part

...As I neared home I went by the water works that stood for years behind the ice plant. That’s where the water for the city was processed and I remember how clean and clear the water looked.  It was an...
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Categories: cookers, remember,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberLet's Control Pressure Cookers

...For years preachers have ranted and raved to control the activities of hookers!
Well, I'm proposin' that the guv-mint control the sale and use of pressure cookers!

We've seen the havoc these lethal ...
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Categories: cookers, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThis Place We Once Called Home

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Barren, desolate, this place we once called home
It's where so many wonders lived, and so many roamed

But all it takes is some, to determine their madly thoughts
Invitingly we enter their w...
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Categories: cookers, life, loss, war,
Form: Couplet

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