Long Amaretto Poems

Note: Coochie Road is a real place.

                  "The Girl From Coochie Road"

     Under a...

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Silently bathed in avocado,          
you soaked in the fragrance of a blanket
At midday, crunched your teeth   
into something sweet and yellow,
no flower still no...

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''Like Ice Cream''

Having ice cream with you, 
Brightens the entire portrait in my youth.
Like catnip for a cat 
-- the     Reese's    fun never stops!
Like monkeys in a zoo,...

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Ooey, gooey, give me choc-o-lot!
If I must, I'll take it liquid hot,
But "wicked" like they fix it in Madrid,
Thick as porridge, satin sunburnt sweet.
(Not like here: sugar,milk and cocoa, mix and heat). 
Give me some...

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5 large egg whites
250g caster sugar
380ml double cream
5 tbsp lemon curd
300g blackberries
2 tbsp pistachios, toasted & roughly chopped
InstructionsPreheat the oven to 180 C/160 C fan. Line two large baking trays with baking parchment.
In a large...

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and in the shadows sets the amaretto sun-

the solitude has ascended and splashes of eventide fade 
into the ivory glazed moonlight, but I am forsaken and 
left alone as the forest wood remembers my sorrow.

a...

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1 cups of strawberries
1 cup of raspberries
1 packet of cherry Kool-Aid
5 Tablespoons of Amaretto
1/2 cup of sugar
mix well and set aside.....

1 cup of soft goat cheese (milk)
1 cup of cream cheese
1/2 cup of toasted almonds
1/2...

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Ferocious winds, sleet turned -------------------- Snow.
Another day off of work, poetry -------------------- and
Time to shovel my drive. 25 MPH ----------------Winds
Hold me hostage in my abode. I ----------------- Keep
Enclosed, I rose from slumber. -------------------- Me
Rattled, never,...

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The season of hope, the season of giving,
The time to reflect on the life you've been living. 
Children innocent, gleeful, jolly,
Masquerading in magical midnight folly.

Token gifts exchanged with teary eyes,
Sentimentality to make up for expressionless...

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2 cups of sautéed butternut squash
1 cup of pecans ( sautéed in butter and brown sugar 3 tablespoons each)
1 cup of raisins
3/4 cups of honey
2/3 cups of amaretto
2 cups of shredded sautéed cabbage
1 cup of...

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A hurricane of opals
plays along the surface of the sea;
Such a fickle display of pageantry 
as a war wages beneath the waves; 

A hurricane of opals 
controls the tumultuous tide;
Shades of violet bruise the sea...

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Amaretto morning
just like the earth to be grey today
Time for the old dog-eared book
all the while begging the rain to stay
I couldn't buy a moment like this
even in Lion's Head Antique store
I couldn't wish for...

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