The Ballad of the Pancake Brothers
...two brothers hailed from the old country
from Donnybrook
one more like an engineer
the other like a cook
they specialized in pancakes
the best, you can't deny
Sean made them taste like heaven...
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Categories:
hotcakes, brother, death, food, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Legendary Pancake Brothers
...Two brothers hailed from the old country, from Donnybrook -
one more like an engineer, the other like a cook.
They specialized in pancakes - the best, you can't deny.
Sean made them taste like ...
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Categories:
hotcakes, brother, food, silly,
Form: Rhyme
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:
hotcakes, food, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Mad Inventions You'd Never Dream Of part 1
...The Mother of Invention
Has given birth once more
And her new baby
Is as mad as before
Eddison or Tesla
Would spill their tea
I know because it happens to me
Baby suspenders?
I believe th...
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Categories:
hotcakes, baby, caregiving, giving, humor,
Form: Free verse
Do You Feel It Too
...Do you feel it too
You know, the graying of Halloween
For several decades it was all the rage
for Sonny-and-Cher-like adults, whatever their age
Red-light district numbers sold li...
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Categories:
hotcakes, change, feelings, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Mixed Metaphors
...They found the smoking dagger
Happiness is a loving family in another city
True friends stab you in the front
He’s a wolf in cheap clothing
He received a decease and desist order
I shot ...
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Categories:
hotcakes, humorous,
Form: Free verse
A House With No Servants
...Premiered at Evelyn’s Kitchen,
King of Prussia, PA – 3/27/2010
ACT 1
Spanish Town, Jamaica
Foundation
If I Were a Tree
Ritual
Honey Be Mine
American Gothic
On a Day like This
Hotcakes ...
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Categories:
hotcakes, allegory, marriage,
Form: List
Breakfast Last Night
...We shared a breakfast late last night-
while sun was shining neath the moon.
Ate cornflakes off a cob held tight;
spread hotcakes with iced syrup strewn.
Made scrambled eggs- sunny side u...
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Categories:
hotcakes, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Hotcakes on the Table
...I sold my accordion ‘cause I couldn’t find the time to play.
Some bum stole my fishin’ pole, but I hardly used it anyway.
I spent my “vacation” pullin’ stumps to clear the lower ten.
And last week...
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Categories:
hotcakes, allegory, desire, farm,
Form: Lyric
Hard These Days For a Crook
...It’s hard these days for a crook.
Go anywhere around and take a look.
Ain’t no shops to rob of jewelry.
They all closed up and got security.
Not even restaurants for him to rob,
and at the groce...
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Categories:
hotcakes, humor,
Form: Rhyme
No Mud
...too much hostilities
in all the big cities
and all the small towns
they have their own frowns
there's too many guns
for fathers and sons
people are dying
many are lying
shootings are on the r...
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Categories:
hotcakes, america, death,
Form: Couplet
Only At the Stem
...Words tell a story
But tears make those words supernova
I'm here to listen
I told ya
And Friday you took my ears and poured
Poured out every content and drop
And I know there's more
At 3cloc...
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Categories:
hotcakes, best friend, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Pancakes
...Grab a wooden spoon, and choose a mixing bowl
A breakfast that is piping hot is worth its weight in gold!
You can make them by the dozens, or one or two will do
Make them for your next of ...
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Categories:
hotcakes, food, fun, funny,
Form: Didactic
The Strings That Bind
...Let The Music Play On
When I am melancholy
And feeling, all alone
I place my violin
On my shoulder, like a phone
Then start a conversation
In melodic overtones
and every string that speaks...
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Categories:
hotcakes, appreciation, family, home, language,
Form: Rhyme
What's Up With Poetry
...Poetry is about faith, a song, and sometimes a checkup.
It’s about that girl on the other side you want to link up.
Poetry is about the beauty of life when you want to grow up.
It’s about lost ...
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Categories:
hotcakes, break up, courage, life,
Form: Rhyme
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