The Monroe Moon
...In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with ...
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Categories:
floury, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Cupcakes
...Piggery
Diggery
Hungry,
I stuffed
I chewed,
I swallowed
Lunchtime sweets
Floury treats
Icing sweetmeats,
Burp
Sturp
Stop
The
Cup
Cakes...
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Categories:
floury, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
Food Fight
...There was a fight in the pantry
Peas and carrots were in dispute
The sugar and pepper were shaking
And the cinnamon followed suit!
The pickles deftly grabbed the flour
And threw it across the ...
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Categories:
floury, fantasy, food, humor, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Frosty Morning Ii
...Winter reminds me of wet coats
in the hall and the smoky kitchen heat,
of large logs sizzling,
exerting their wetness on the hearth stone;
cut fresh from the garden,
they fill the flagged floor ...
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Categories:
floury, family, fire, rain, winter,
Form: Free verse
Haiku Spray
...fast plunging gannets
churning the sea white with spray -
mothers floury hands....
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Categories:
floury, sea,
Form: Haiku
Turf To Tummy
...The turf fires glow reduced to ash
A million years of bog history
As I watched the glowing embers
My mind took me back
To a nearly forgotten time
When the turf ruled the hearths
And cranes swu...
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Categories:
floury, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?
Dear Son
...Just a few lines I hereby write to let you know
that I, in my entirety am still alive,
care I give, when with pen perceiving you so slow
the words upon these lines, just in time will arrive.
You will...
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Categories:
floury, fantasy, funny, baby, baby,
Form: Rhyme
Magwinya Woman
...She wakes up before dawn. Mounts
her cardbox cubicle on the pavement
at a street corner. It is chilly and windy.
Without delay she pours cooking oil
into the aluminum container perched
on a...
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Categories:
floury, family, parody, satire,
Form: Narrative
Found In a Legend
...BEFORE the initiator’s blade I stand
Before me a circle of floury totem
On my lap and lip the future rests
Found in legend the call and tradition
And I
Must fulfill and depart...
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Categories:
floury, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
The Potato Miner
...-
Tom sat fer-nent the table within a smoker's chair
A table pot of pra-tes and bacon quivers there
The cook an apron dirty wipes the grease and clears her throat
She cooks her husband dinner the c...
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Categories:
floury, family, night, home, home,
Form: Rhyme
Mother's Scones
...Mother’s Scones
In our kitchen, a pleasant noise
Mum is baking, oh joy of joys.
And while she bakes she hums along,
To Denver’s tune of ‘Annie’s song’
I take a breath, my eyes they close
A ...
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Categories:
floury, childhood, food
Form: Rhyme