Love Cooking Poems

The sparrow cannot help being tireless.
The banyan cannot help being sheltered.
The moon cannot help being constant.
And I cannot help being Amma.

Even in my sleep, I...

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I’m Onomato-pea-a
The window is my home.
I love the sounds of cooking
At day, at dusk, and dawn.

Mom clomps into the room
And clicks on every light
The curtain...

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collect and do soup
I love farming and cooking 
do you love farming?...

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Who had chicken soup
Simmering in a kettle,
Momma did ...
Letting the flavors mettle

Who baked sugar cookies 
Shaped with a cookie cutter,
Momma did ...
And made with real...

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It’s taboo to be lonely on Valentine’s Day...
I’d love to come over and cook, if I may.
     We can eat lots...

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Start with potatoes, skinned and scoured
Add onion and cream that has soured
Season with pepper, stirring well
Sprinkle in some salt and just smell!

Potatoes should cook until...

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Disturbed  over what she had planned
for tomorrow. Often times she refused to
me as included with her plans.

What sweet sonnets sing ye
the sound of togetherness
tangled...

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Variety is the spice of life 
At least that's what they say..
We celebrate different colours 
Yet the world still chooses grey

There's room for different flavours
Whether...

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I walk into the kitchen
She’s cooking orange slices
With brown sugar and honey
It smells like her love...

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Eye of newt, wing of bat,
A dab or a dollop of dragon fat,
Stirred in a pot o'er a witch's flame,
A potion for love, or riches,...

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her second income
helping with slicing, peeling -
Love packs orders with my Love...

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Hot Pot hold discards punctuality
Daddy's dinner waits for her arrival
Wave eruptions push sensuality
Faithful fund chef clings to their survival

Amazed, restrained, Romeo of Ocean 
Baby drips...

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When dad made breakfast, he always fried lots of bacon,
crackling and popping in the pan, 
 It scented the air, juicy and crisp, always beckoning.
...

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Hanging around
between jobs, on the hook.
Enjoying moments,
often fleeting, to sneak a look.

Overall, grateful
for this home and life.
Dare I dream
you’ll be my wife?

I can only hope
you...

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This 'Heroic' Crown of Sonnets, I am posting as seven separate Sonnets, for ease of reading.  This is written with thanks to a fellow...

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