Secret Ingredient
...The secret for great flavor
in a baked cherry pie
Add a little almond extract
for the taste that will happily surprise
For dull tasteless vegetables
like cabbage and green beans
Add a little ...
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Categories:
gravies, food, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Fall Family Feast Footles
...An oddly-shaped Thanksgiving bird:
quirky
turkey
What we call Grandma's mashed potatoes:
dreamy
creamy
How she adds volume to the main side dish:
fluf...
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Categories:
gravies, family, thanksgiving day,
Form: Footle
Before You Run Out of Time
...Many resigned people accept humdrum and boring as their usual
Sadly, it is not supposed to be this way, this was not the plan
However, society allows them to stew in their own gravies, with chunks ...
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Categories:
gravies, age, life,
Form: Free verse
Grotesque Green Germs
...Grotesque green grandpa and grandma goblins gratifying greasy gravies.
Gregariously greeting grateful guests who are going goat-herding in Greenland.
Glimpsing grievous grandchild who gobbles greas...
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Categories:
gravies, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Pseudo Sciecnce
...The pseudo-science
Cooking is not rocket science but would be cook has to
learn the basic after this he must discover why some
food doesn’t go well mixed with the wrong ingredients
The ru...
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Categories:
gravies, abuse, age, america, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Winter Black and White
...It was a strange light,
perhaps not light at all;
eerily gray tinged hues,
somewhere between black and white,
pale wisps of deep dark etchy purples
and charcoal swatches display
tips in si...
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Categories:
gravies, color, january, winter,
Form: Free verse
The Hannans Way
...If you like to eat good food
Plus enjoy yourself as well
There is this little place I work
It's called the Hannans Hotel
T-bone or rump are our steaks
With salad, veg or chips
4 yummy gravie...
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Categories:
gravies, family, food,
Form: Rhyme
Puttin' On the Ritz
...A four piece string ensemble competes
with fluted crystal glasses harmonizing
to the tinkling of fine silverware
underpinned by the purring whispers
of well-to-do's and their hobnobbery.
Butt...
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Categories:
gravies, beauty, celebrity, class, clothes,
Form: Free verse
My Theory of Moles
...I have a theory about mole from the Mexican cuisine.
Some will make you happy, others may make you mean.
They are prepared in many different arrangements you see.
Many of certain special ingredi...
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Categories:
gravies, family, food, funny, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Growing Son
...Every night, my son prefers to watch late night movies.
But early in the morning, he does n’t like to go to school,
He complains he has a headache and his body feels heavies,
When I suggested hi...
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Categories:
gravies, caregiving, devotion, education, father,
Form: Villanelle