Can We Have Our Ball Back Please
...O my Lord, I hope you don’t see man as virus or disease
This bright blue globe you gave us faces such profound unease
We’re told that we will drown or burn though some of us will freeze
And only y...
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Categories:
lentils, earth, song,
Form: Lyric
Some Like It Hot
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With coriander cumin turmeric
basmati rice saffron and spice
onions chilli peppers
and all things nice
with chapati and chutney
a samosa or two
naan for starters
rogan josh vindaloo
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Categories:
lentils, food, fun, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Nowruz
...The mirror breathes beneath my palm—
twelve days polishing chrome and calm.
Sabzeh¹ sprouts in jam-jar earth,
each blade a green and tender birth—
a promise held through patient hours,
while...
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Categories:
lentils, new years day,
Form: Masnavi
Steam Radiator
...The radiator whispered like breath
beneath the old window
(half opened for mercy)
where cold fingers of air
braided themselves with steam
and the snow stayed only for seconds
da...
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Categories:
lentils, memory, winter,
Form: Free verse
Can We Have Our Ball Back
...Almighty God, I guess you must see man as a disease
This bright blue orb that we call home must cause you much unease
No government is ever gonna listen to our pleas
Their taxes will not save us… ...
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Categories:
lentils, earth, prayer,
Form: Monorhyme
SENIOR COMMUNITY DRUG OPERATIONS RAN BY DOMESTIC TERRORISTS DEALERS INC
...SNOW BIRDS HAVE A WHOLE NEW MEANING MASSIVE CRIMINAL CONVOYS TARGETING SENIORS THE CONVOY OF HASTE CORRUPT DRUG DEALERS ARRIVE TO FLORIDA TARGETING SENIOR COMMUNITIES TARGETING DISABLED AMERICANS MOS...
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Categories:
lentils, allah,
Form: Naat
Carrots
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Settled in to eat the carrots.
Orange and very long.
They were Viking boats!
Sang a warrior's song.
Put lentils on the sides,
Brave warrior shields with green bean spears...
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Categories:
lentils, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Lasagna Recipe
...Gather your ingredients, it’s time to cook,
Follow these steps, like reading a book.
Two tablespoons of olive oil, bacon four strips,
Or mushrooms sliced, for vegan tips.
One onion, one carrot, d...
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Categories:
lentils, food,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond Coincidental
...6/28/24
Oh heck no
It's not good feeling like a puppet made by Gepetto
The overhead downpour constant and torrential
Can't find my way through this god forsaken residential
My sleep was hard...
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Categories:
lentils, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Mulligatawny - Poetry Soup
...Mulligatawny, soup for you,
Uniquely, peppered, seasoned through,
Lots of ingredients, we might use,
Lentils, a mustard seed or two,
Interesting flavours, we might choose,
Garlic, chillies, tam...
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Categories:
lentils, appreciation, food, imagery, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
Divine Magnetism
... In the manicured meadow
of woeful weeds,
where hope sprouts amidst
forlorn fragrance of frozen seeds,
I dance to the hypnotic breeze,
hanging on saintly strings with
cosmic eyes, unraveli...
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Categories:
lentils, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The Great Indian Kitchen
...In my kitchen's grasp, where spices hop free,
Whispers of our memories, in each recipe.
Khichdi's humble grace, a bow to our roots,
In grains and lentils, tradition assent.
Herbal notes linger,...
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Categories:
lentils, culture, family, grandmother, hindi,
Form: Free verse
If tears don't run salty into the bowl of lentils of life, you don't know the seasoning of pain
...If tears don't run salty into the bowl of lentils of life, you don't know the seasoning of pain,
It's just a breeze, a transient wind over your infinite fields of indifference.
When you weep, tasti...
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Categories:
lentils, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Ma's Soup
...'Dinner won't be long, Dear.'
Burt puffed up his pillows and squeezed one out.
'Better wash your hands, now'.
The armchair smothered his glee.
Wallaby faggots,
Brown rice juices,
L...
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Categories:
lentils, appreciation, drink, family, farm,
Form: Free verse
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcola...
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Categories:
lentils, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad,
Form: Rhyme
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