The Great Return
...Let's bring it back; let's go back
To that sweet, old thing we now lack
Make it great again, go back again
Let's start right away; let's begin
Back to organic maple syrup over Mama's hot, but...
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Categories:
flapjacks, appreciation, community, feelings, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Pancake is a Pancake
...You can call them flapjacks.
and you can call them hotcakes,
You might call them johnny cakes or griddle cakes or crepes.
I don't see the difference that it makes.
They come by many a name,
bu...
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Categories:
flapjacks, food, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Does the Pan Make the Man, Dan?
...In a greasy diner on the edge of town, Dan flipped pancakes with the flair of a juggler, a spatula his scepter, his griddle a kingdom of sizzle and steam.
They called him “Dan the Pan Man,” a brea...
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Categories:
flapjacks, confidence, creation, dedication, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Fairmile Guest House
...We arrived early at the Fairmile
We’re welcomed by Jason’s warm smile
He made a pot of tea
For my hubby and me
I’m happy we’re staying a while!
Our bedroom was spotlessly clean
An...
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Categories:
flapjacks, holiday, how i feel,
Form: Limerick
Waffle House
...
The door rings,
I look up,
someone with someone else,
back to my eggs and hash browns.
The door rings
Spatulas knell the griddle.
The skinny cook yells in Kentucky Yiddish.
Flapjacks slap in...
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Categories:
flapjacks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Get out of my head mister chatterbox
...Get out of my head mister chatterbox!
Ransacking treasure trove
of maximum headroom.
To remedy a fate worse than death
or orange hair oaf becoming
forty seventh president
or contracting o...
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Categories:
flapjacks, abuse, anger, bullying, crazy,
Form: Free verse
What Good
...8/9/22
What good if they judge by the color of skin
Got to do better instead of teaching that to kids
Still telling fibs
On either side of the ridge
Yet again another burned bridge
Soul cold ...
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Categories:
flapjacks, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Blackberry Pleasures
...Blackberries to me are one of natures fine treasures
Fruit jewels that give many culinary pleasures.
The berries are versatile with nutritional health benefits
And wildlife safe haven under densel...
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Categories:
flapjacks, food, fruit, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Chants In a Breakfast Diner
...The door rings
I look up
then
back to my eggs and hash browns.
The door rings
I look up
nobody I know,
my first time here
why should I know anyone!
Back to the eggs.
Two sunny-side-up,...
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Categories:
flapjacks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Martha's Vineyard Vacation
...Up with the children at seven
For blueberry pancakes and ham.
Flapjacks enough for eleven -
How many will fit in the pan?
Lay out some slices of bread.
Spread with egg salad maybe,
Some tuna ...
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Categories:
flapjacks, beach, fun, vacation,
Form: Quatrain
While Skeptic Attempts To Comprehend the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
...Alternately titled: Get out of my head mister chatterbox!
While inside me noggin legions
of monstrous demons abhor
protest being force fed
arcane and obscure
assaying into religious dogma
hen...
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Categories:
flapjacks, 12th grade, america, creation,
Form: Rhyme
I Try To Resist
...Forever
Feasting famished,
Flapjacks, frankfurter's, fajitas
Flavoursome food, favourite feast.
Foreboding, forbidden, feeding
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Categories:
flapjacks, food, funny, lust,
Form: Diamante
God and His Country Air
...verdant grasses in a gorgeous April meadow
dew fresh on delicate apple tree blossoms
red buds parade their mystical prettiness
refreshing country air which rejuvenates and revives
daybreak's shy...
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Categories:
flapjacks, god,
Form: Free verse
Grandpa's Chair
...Mountains survey checkerboard acreage
Valleys squint at lonely peaks
A storm is brewing, black nimbus gathering
Could the earth speak, it would shriek
A forlorn, gray cottage, streaked with...
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Categories:
flapjacks, home, rain, sleep, storm,
Form: Narrative
On Wings of Song
...I fly on wing of song.
Twenty-three miles out of Atlanta
soaring like an eagle traveling from DC
thirty-six thousand miles high
Fly, fly away
Through the blue hues of morning
white fluffiness l...
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Categories:
flapjacks, prayer, religious, silence, travel,
Form: Free verse
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