Pizza
...A Foodie Pleiades Poetry Contest
Andrea Dietrich
Parades of dough shapes pie
Pepperoni walks in
Pasta sauce rallies taste
Pockets of crust tips edge
Proud dills and hams in step
Pe...
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Categories:
dills, food,
Form: Pleiades
Stackers
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I get the bread-n-butters,
hot, koshers, dills, all that.
But why they call them stackers,
when they are oh so flat?
H/T to Terry Flood's Pulling Pickles...
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Categories:
dills, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Pickle Party
...Bread and Butter showed up first,
thank God, with bread and butter
(we hadn't any food out yet).
They had flown in from Detroit
on a real time-crunch.
Then the Gherkins arrived
Pushing thro...
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Categories:
dills, food,
Form: Free verse
Spring Sprinkles
...you are my lovely spring fizzy thing
god-given bliss makes you fit for king
all is your amazing work
one that give us lucky perk
daffo-dills' best pick pickle in spring...
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Categories:
dills, analogy, appreciation, humorous, spring,
Form: Limerick
Paid In Full
...I’ve mucked around when drinking beer like many other blokes,
who love to be involved when playing silly nonsense jokes.
It’s great to see a ‘bunny’ puzzled and completely unaware
that pranksters ...
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Categories:
dills, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Airplanes
...Once we were all so young,
Paper airplanes, so much fun,
Until I was a teacher of pupils,
Making aircraft, not such dills,
So what did I do?
Made a contest, with own rules,
Who could fly the ...
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Categories:
dills, fun, giggle, happy, school,
Form: Free verse
My Five Senses
...MY FIVE SENSES
In my fifties I disavow the taste
but back in elementary school
the image would drift into daydreams —
pork kidneys with savory gravy
went well with the pucker of dills.
The ...
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Categories:
dills, senses,
Form: Free verse
Jagged Jaws of Smelted Steel Not the Title:
...This poet decided against
becoming a measly minced meaty morsel
undetected inauspicious augury
assigning adept
aqueous ace AOL amphibian,
who surreptitiously crept
to t...
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Categories:
dills, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Pickling Time
...Pickling Time
momma stood up
and stretched
arms wide enough
to take us all in, more.
she had that look
the fall look,
there every year since
I can remember.
well girls, pickling time, ...
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Categories:
dills, autumn, family, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Here 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:
dills, food,
Form: Free verse
Daffy O' Dill
...I spotted her from far away
a thin tart
Very svelte in a form
fitting long green gown
Her face shrouded by
a rather large
oversized
Buttercup yellow
bonnet
Daffy O' Dill
The Spring m...
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Categories:
dills, april,
Form: Free verse
Contents
...If in your fruit cellar you find
My jar, you need not be perplexed
When one day the label reads
"Canned peach preserves";
And on another day, "cubed dills";
Or if you find upon opening
Nothing ...
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Categories:
dills, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Unemployment
...UNEMPLOYMENT....
All we hear about is unemployment,
Appears to be a global torment,
Couldn't we think of creative solutions,
New inventions, using less pollution?
New ideas, concepts for the p...
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Categories:
dills, books, earth, environment, jobs,
Form: Free verse
Do Dinos Soar
...Do DINOS SOAR, do fish have SOLE
Do elephants have ANTS in their PHANTS
Have you ever seen a real HORSE FLY
Or a FIRE that's started by ANTS
A PEA CAN go wherever MAN GOES
Does a CROC ...
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Categories:
dills, humorous, mum,
Form: Quatrain
Green At Soylent
...Green @ Soylent
So then the poor looked and saw,
Some tory bastards thinking,
Depression pills 4 all the dills,
Yer sex life aint fair dinkum,
Dumbing down of the savage clown,
Lobotomy oh so f...
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Categories:
dills, adventure,
Form: Ballad
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