Hotch Potch Soup
...I start off being optimistic
With my big saucepan
Only as a last resort will I ever
Eat soup from a can.
I assemble all the ingredients
From a list I’ve not written down
Caremelise the onions....
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Categories:
hotch, adventure, food, humor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Commentary
...Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
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Categories:
hotch, bullying, immigration, prison, religion,
Form: Epigram
Ancestry Endangered Fossilized
...Modern migration and intermingling of races and cultures has trashed ancestry.
The world has become a mishmash, a hotch-potch
as cultures and languages fuse, blend and meld.
Knowing your origi...
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Categories:
hotch, history, time,
Form: Free verse
Circumspice 3
...Part 3 -- Sir Christopher Wren
"Resurgam". What a righteous word it is!
The Latin form of "I will rise again".
I'd like it on my tomb. A scientist
I was, a humble Oxford teaching drudge,
w...
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Categories:
hotch, history,
Form: Blank verse