Planche de Chair Cuite
...She was not invited
She was arranged
They never wanted Jasmine
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries
while th...
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Categories:
garnish, betrayal, death, gothic, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
BY THE STREETLAMP
...I gorge on black ink shadows
and gulp down silver moon beams
delectable, saporous
by the streetlamp marinade
me hallucinating art
on a diet of glow world
hue imbued hungry brushstrokes
dream...
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Categories:
garnish, adventure, art, dark, food,
Form: Free verse
The Table Next to Mine
...At a corner table in the morning haze,
Steam rose from cups in softened glaze.
A couple sat — greyed by time’s hand,
But something cracked beneath the bland.
He flipped the menu like a sacred t...
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Categories:
garnish, analogy, beautiful, father son,
Form: Rhyme
The Intervention
...Chicken on dry sliced rye,
at his neat
office workstation,
no garnish.
Suddenly she was there,
her chair roller wheels
squeaking.
Next time get a 'footlong' sub
with Mayo and all the fixi...
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Categories:
garnish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fella Meatus
...Disturbed by the interruptions
He would be disrupted by my
Skill
Thrill of collaboration
When ones partners are
Determined and real
In that self satisfaction
If achieving a goal
What's in ...
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Categories:
garnish, analogy, beautiful, business, drink,
Form: Ballade
Black Sextant
...Another family gathering
the place is packed with deep blue sadness
for the passing of yet another friend.
Faces are strained to the edge of recognition.
pretty bouquets garnish a garish metal ba...
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Categories:
garnish, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Hubs Of Heaven
...Catalytic cascade of mirror gleam relish on sleep encrusted eyes,
such sylvan surreal therapy aligned to dulcet bird lilt,
garnish to the willow weave wayfarer of iridescent poetic inkling,
verna...
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Categories:
garnish, beautiful, beauty, celebration, city,
Form: Free verse
Burma-Shave
...They stood like rhymes
on fencepost spines
with wisdom scrawled
in shaving thymes—
a roadside gospel,
terse and sweet
that preached with
meter, grit, and heat.
Rosemary likes
a clean-shave...
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Categories:
garnish, america, childhood, history, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Suspicious Upper
...
Planned a pretty picnic, yet didn’t predict
Pigs begged - please eat us
Allocated table had laid out a feisty feast
Mince never been seen since
Rolled in cracklin...
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Categories:
garnish, absence, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Penelope's Tea Party
...
Sounds a little bourgeoisie
to put on a formal sit-down tea
all dressed up with a bumblebee
As she sets up under the willow tree
it's the perfect antidote to a bout of ennui
for sweet little...
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Categories:
garnish, blessing, celebration, fun, uplifting,
Form: Monorhyme
SMASH POTATOES-
...Culinary creativity
and experimentation
"Smashed potatoes...
I garnish them basil
Partially douse in salt"
Sensory delight
and pleasure
"Boredom in the water...
Popped and ...
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Categories:
garnish, adventure, appreciation, creation, food,
Form: Free verse
Sonnets Before Surrender and The Building That Follows
...The war refuses the head, below wasting in dead
Rearing the front as storms fell the timbers rot
Upheavals breast, shorn and filled in neglect
Lay useless she had cried, allow dimple and deny
T...
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Categories:
garnish, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
205 Je chilo amar swapanachareenee - Tagoreweb
...205. She was my dreamer weave, roaming grace in my dreamland
Unbridled a mystic riddle, puzzling befuddling kind
Days are gone by to seek , to ...
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Categories:
garnish, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
More LetterKu
...Gregarious Giles gladly gathers garnish greens gentle Greta grows.
Haggard Harriet hardly has half her hoppity hare’s health habits.
"Injun" invective incenses indigenous individual....
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Categories:
garnish, silly, writing,
Form: Monoku
find another place to live
...Sam is improverished and alone
destitute, deprived, depressed,
an alley rat who does not garnish sympathy or empathy
his family turned him out thirty-six years ago
at fifteen he was told to “fi...
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Categories:
garnish, for teens,
Form: Free verse
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