Some Like It Hot
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With coriander cumin turmeric
basmati rice saffron and spice
onions chilli peppers
and all things nice
with chapati and chutney
a samosa or two
naan for starters
rogan josh vindaloo
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Categories:
coriander, food, fun, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
In the silence of a frozen morning, when the cold weaves its crystal cloak over the world
...In the silence of a frozen morning, when the cold weaves its crystal cloak over the world,
I will never say "I love you," not because I don't feel it, but because those words,
Thrown like coins at ...
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Categories:
coriander, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Gifted
...Gifted.
A round clay grey chalice
just outside the kitchen door
filled to the brim
with dark brown nurture,
frothy feather greens trimmed.
She eats the fresh smells
with all her secret s...
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Categories:
coriander, appreciation, friendship, heart, humanity,
Form: Free verse
To Put It Poorly
...To put it poorly,
You are the taste of chocolate
And the pulse of being high
Of caffeine running through my lungs
Of screaming towards the sky
And to put it even poorer,
I know a bird who canno...
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Categories:
coriander, color, nonsense, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Lemon Coriander Soup
...I have an in-born low immunity against cold,
so, when my nose ran lose and mucus rolled,
my mother used to make for me everyday
lemon coriander soup I liked, I would say.
Using mother’s...
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Categories:
coriander, food,
Form: Rhyme
Seasoned
...I used to claim, I'm just getting old til
a friend said, "no, seasoned", with a gentle scold.
It does sound better. I must admit, but am still
pondering which spices fit?
Was I seasoned by the se...
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Categories:
coriander, age,
Form: Light Verse
A Killing Colonel Cornered
...Soldiers with the cornered colonel
Said to crack him like a kernel,
Easily made him surrender,
Account of his orders render…
Colonel Smith, on his neck flannel,
Suddenly facing a Panel
In his...
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Categories:
coriander, allusion, conflict, death, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Belly Fat
...Pu Erh tea = shrinks fat cells & help promote weight loss (mornings)
low-caffeine
* white tea = blocks fat absorption & increases metabolism and boosts
slimming (lunch time) Caffeine
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Categories:
coriander, beautiful, black african american,
Form: I do not know?
African Prostitutes Old and New
...African Prostitutes of Old
Had kept a reasoning plain cold:
In no Sweet Tales to be told
And would little yield if sold...
African Prostitutes of Old
Weren’t at all composed nor bold
And cou...
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Categories:
coriander, addiction, africa, lust, women,
Form: Rhyme
While I Meander
...I don’t mean to walk away, just to meander
That’s not to say I don’t enjoy your cander
But I refuse to hear your immoral pander
When it starts to mutate into wily slander
I just imagined someth...
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Categories:
coriander, anger,
Form: Rhyme
October Spice
...October Spice
Inspired October creates a recipe
For a sumptuous feast
A bouquet garni of paprika hued orange tupelo,
A fete of fragrant cinnamon shades in russet umber oaks,
Sprinkling tinges ...
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Categories:
coriander, october,
Form: Free verse
Execution Style
...Sonny hid behind the melons
In a busy Asian marketplace,
Near the plantains and the mangos
Where the shadows could obscure his face.
He inhaled the air around him
And enjoyed the fragrant s...
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Categories:
coriander, adventure, allegory, corruption, murder,
Form: Ballad
Coriander
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Green
tender
flavoured leaves,
coriander
delights in taste and
looks. They have beautiful
tiny flowers with two,
three petals. Their fruits
are small, round, green
edible
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Categories:
coriander, nature,
Form: Verse
The Mortar and the Pestles
...The women bending and pounding in rhythm
was a vibrant bucolic sight. The long wooden
pestles were powered by the human current.
While grinding raw rice,
they stopped to rest, and
to crack...
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Categories:
coriander, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Perfumes of Nature
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As I wake up in the morning
Scent of freshly bloomed jasmine floats in air
I walk out to the garden
Fresh blooms sway in wind
I walk toward night jasmine tree
Pick up fallen flowers
Th...
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Categories:
coriander, nature,
Form: Imagism
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