Long Al dente Poems

“Sacred Lakes”



There is magic 
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo 
busy under cover of autumn leaves 
turning burnished topaz gold 
idling unrushed roll over

in honeyed slumber

turning back hands
to face a time of 
blushing...

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He rides his horse into town with dramatic cowboy flair
where suddenly a certain amount of tension fills the air
wide rimmed cowboy hat pulled down low
with guns strapped to his sides ready to go

All the townsfolk...

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Wooing,  My LOVE
Chateau-Briand, with homemade sauce Bernaise
Pancake cottage fries, al dente cauliflower Polonaise
1971 bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse on ice, already Chilled
The Love of my Life, Barbara; with Love my Heart: Filled
The Centre piece is Roses...

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Checking the lights on the dashboard when they flash and stay red:
it's the oil that needs to be changed or the engine that requires
maintenance, and in frigid temperatures who would venture outside and get frostbites?
A...

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Bridal Party- what horses have when they get new saddles

al dente' vegetables- vegetables hard enough to dent your teeth

Oregano- the Italian section of a northwestern state

John Doe- a hooved animal that frequents prostitute deer

Civil Defense-...

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Sleepless ... tossed like pillows, our sleep number slumber
so sweetly disturbed ... pretzel limbs, twisted soft and warm ...
we tear torrid tunnels through Egyptian cotton ...

Swimming, deep, the louvered moonbeams, properly peeled
and cologned-to-taste ... hot-striped...

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NOUVELLE CUISINE

Nouvelle cuisine the waiter said, as he served the food to me
Where’s the rest I asked him, as I’d earlier skipped my tea
Tiny bits of something on a massive bloody dish
I tried to woo...

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PASTA: A FORK OF HEAVEN

In a pot of bubbling boiling water,
I drop hard nine inches long bundle of farfelles..

Minutes passed,between my fingertips, 
I pressed one strand, al- dente! 

In a  platter glittering white, 
I...

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Opening line from "Highway Five Love Poem" by Ruth L. Schwartz


This is a love poem for all the tomatoes
I squished to make our Date-Night spaghetti.
Our love, like the pasta, was shiny.  So the story...

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DISHES OF THE DAY - POETRY

             Happiness à priori
             Health well...

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Midday sometimes in class instead of learning algebra
While she should be calculating and figuring a formula
Her mind wanders aboard a moonlit gondola
Serenaded by a musician and his viola

She follows the enticing aroma of hot lasagna
Zigs...

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I like my poetry soup cooked al dente,
so lots of diced adjectives in the pot went,
   and I threw in some fresh verse,
   lyric, I did immerse.
I folded in liquid imagination,
and...

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a certain al dente to the line
that gives up its sustenance
without some sentimental mush
but toothy, with crunch and crush

a rhyme is good, but not all mattered
more important is the view that's gathered
rolled perhaps taste of...

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i can't
say that
i am
growing up

looking back
normality
morality
fit me

in some
category
like poetry
i'm not

iambic
i'm more
pelvic and
musically

you can 
find me
andante 
moderato

tastefully
eating
my pasta
al dente

and in
life i
like
most

have had
lose to 
which it
is said

for everyone
there is a
soulmate
but she

died and
so did i
just like
Atlas

dropping not
the world...

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Booze and madness.
I'm feeling it. Again,
nobody believes me but the nonsense, it just makes sense.
It's all about the soul deep down inside
That's me.
I'm in my head and I don't think I'll ever get out.
And then...

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It tastes a little like patience,
a pot simmering on low heat;

It tastes like something left on ice
that now has been perfectly thawed;

It tastes a little bit sugar,
attached to what they did to you;
Now the craving...

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I rarely follow any traditional rules
when it comes to culinary delights;
everyone should try my tasty lasagna,
which I surely learned from Mamma.
I cook the noodles for five minutes, 'till they are al dente, which means crunchy,...

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