Strength Does Not Always Roar
...Fragility is quite a strength
just as the crucial bumblebees’ breath
Perhaps not only titularly
gentleness is stronger than severity . . .
Channeling Emily Dickinson : To be a feather in a holo...
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Categories:
lemongrass, art, beauty, hope, mountains,
Form: Alliteration
Big Strangs
...@ cups of ground turkey
1/2 cup of pureed shrimp
2/3 cup crabmeat
1 cup of mushrooms
1/4 cup of dry marsala
3 Tablespoons of crushed chopped Lemongrass
1 -2 teaspoons of rosemary
sauteed in oi...
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Categories:
lemongrass, culture, film, food, french,
Form: Ballad
Sutra Afterglow
...
Sails an evening when breaths lay quietly
On obscure places fluid as winds,
Where afterglow of joy becomes a
hammock
lulling frayed veins with lemongrass t...
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Categories:
lemongrass, celebration, devotion, love,
Form: Light Verse
dIMM wITT
...My wife was on a diet. I told her that if she didn't lose 30 pounds this year: that we were through. She bought thrity pounds ofdehyrated chicken and tuna, and said Thrity pounds of weight I'll throw...
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Categories:
lemongrass, adventure, encouraging,
Form: Ballade
Our Love is Like Curry
...Our love is like a bowl of curry
Sour and salty, then sweet and spicy
It lingers and savors slowly
Explodes a burst of umami
Perhaps the lemongrass and lime
Gives aroma of our passing time
Wha...
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Categories:
lemongrass, food, love,
Form: Free verse
Descent and Ascent
... “on an as is where is basis we choose
descent of consciousness into the gross
then we rise again following heart’s muse
higher than where stood, bearing love’s cross” Unseeking Seeker...
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Categories:
lemongrass, blessing, courage,
Form: Free verse
Animating Innate Vibrance
...As the mediterranean torrents
thawed away this wildflower of Medusa ~
once roaring in merciless thunders,
now, I'm found swaying,
midst lemongrass fields ~
conversing with freshwater naiad...
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Categories:
lemongrass, deep, emotions, meaningful, mental
Form: Free verse
Tom Yum
...Come to my lips, elixir!
Your divine broth,
clear and pure,
humble and exotic,
simple yet complex.
Your hint of lemongrass,
a sprig of cilantro,
a handful of shrimp.
"Mild?" "Yes, rather mi...
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Categories:
lemongrass, appreciation, food,
Form: Free verse
Paranoid
...O August, I feel subtle scents
of dandelion days melting,
like spring falls of delirious diamonds,
while memories of sentimental sapphires
flow amidst clouds of colorblind cruelty,
revealing...
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Categories:
lemongrass, angst, anxiety, heartbreak,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Heart of Time
... “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn
Time has an interesting
way of revealing
riveting narratives,
embossed within ivory ...
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Categories:
lemongrass, dance,
Form: Carpe Diem
So much Love to give
... O beloved rose in my
garden of fairy-lamps,
would you bloom in hues of stardust?
let the daffodil moon
envy this fragrant field of
immortal lyrics~
for I’ll treat you with kindness,...
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Categories:
lemongrass, break up, fantasy, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
swirling seven-stars
...Life is never a planned ride
on a magical carpet,
that awakens jasmine
dreams lost in the brisk air.
We weave our own
zest of zephyr,
to tailor-stitch a tapestry;
buttoned w...
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Categories:
lemongrass, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
My Grandmothers Soup
...Sometimes when
nightfalls of summer
feel so cold,
and everything seems dark,
I turn to the heat of
my grandmother’s soup.
Life can exist
within bone China
or simple ceramic textures,
s...
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Categories:
lemongrass, devotion, granddaughter, i miss
Form: Free verse
Toffa Toffa
...3 cups shredded chicken ( optional)
1 guart of chicken feet broth( optional)
Or
3 cups of shredded pork
1 quart of pigfeet broth
(Or combine)
,1 quart of veggie broth
2 cups of sauteed onion
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Categories:
lemongrass, food, music,
Form: Ballad
Gandorlendeium
...Aqueous humor: she said of the buddahs hands that were
placed upon the table. Macula, and marvelous! A specticail
appealing to the eyes. Yards and Yards of lemongrass, and
beautiful bounties of Bu...
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Categories:
lemongrass, engagement, environment, farm, music,
Form: Ballade
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