Long Broiled Poems

Who suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...

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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Or Dragon Hood and the Secret of the Burning Pants


Our traveling actor trolls, came home to help with ‘Shakespeare in the Park’.
We wanted ‘Romeo and Juliet’, our neighborhood witches wanted ‘Mac...

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for Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)

Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
  timber and stone
   of hardened mud and cold green shiny cement
in your village...

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Death Via Boredom: A Dragon's Demise

Stamping forth from his lair,
Preceded by billows of smoke
The great dragon's murderous red-eyed glare
Penetrated the gloom as he wrathfully spoke.

"Who dares to disturb my thoughtful repose?"
Thundered the Worm, rocking back...

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Dear sister I have been mistreated but surely not defeated
The fit are unruly and those who rule unfit to wear their minds along their brow

Pitted and fallen are we claimed she
Uproot all the timid, surely...

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Ignatius inspected his cohort
The unknown one and his men
He needed the best to fight for him
He needed the best to fight for them

Iduma stood tall, with a beard of fiery red
Didn’t like Ignatius, he wanted...

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Costa Rica Tour

Sit right back and I’ll tell you all
About our recent trip
Somewhere in Costa Rica
We left our cruise line ship
The bus ride – uneventful
Out through the country side
The vistas were fantastic
 Then came the...

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A warm sultry summers night, a silver crystal formed in
the corner of an eye. Trickled and rolled a gentle cheek,
fell to earth where all was dry. Whence it touched the 
ground did speak, an Orchid...

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The Second Wife

Making its round in the ever pervasive What's app world...
Is a creative and amusing anecdote to raise a smile of mirth... ...

A stressed wife, harried as always from the endless house chores....
Receives a...

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After all these many carnivore years
You can call it guilt or you can call it fear
I've made up my mind to decide
I'm going vegan this November time

So I broke down hard and read some books
Heard...

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After all these many carnivore years
You can call it guilt or you can call it fear
I've made up my mind to decide
I'm going vegan this November time

So I broke down hard and read some books
Heard...

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After all these many carnivore years
You can call it guilt or you can call it fear
I've made up my mind to decide
I'm going vegan this November time

So I broke down hard and read some books
Heard...

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Fate Of Mankind...

(this prognosticator ordains,
which if came to pass no brains)
necessary to impress any 
goo goo dolls, nor swains!)

Cited in crosshairs of  thermonuclear warfare
quite an about face from bursts of creativity,
yet omnipresent palpable threat...

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4 CUPS OF PORK-BUTT SLICED
1/3 CUP OF CORNSTARCH AND 1/3 CUP OF WATER(MIXED)
1 CUP OF LIME JUICE
1/4 CUP OF CHILI PEPPERS(HOT)
1 CUP OF ONIONS (CUT INTO WEDGED PIECES AND BLANCED)
2 TABLESPOONS OF SOY SAUCE
1/4 HONEY
1/4...

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6 new york strips
set aside and make marinade and sauce

3 tablespoons of honey
4 tablespoons of molasses
5 tablespoon of worchestire sauce
1/4 cup of lime juice
3 tablespoons of crushed garlic
1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper
5 tablespoons of cilantro
4...

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Last Halloween was scary
with evil brewing strong
when Peggy planned a party
and things went off all wrong

In tatty robe, her hair awry
she slaved all day with care
her neighborhood to satisfy
with an elegant affair

Fine treats she baked...

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FROZEN SOUVENIRS  (( Collaboration * Nette OnClaud ))


by~ NETTE ONLAUD

frozen with pain she woke to find daybreak
slumped on her crumpled bed again, laid back, cast 
aside from god knows what, an unbecoming haven.

at least,...

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Rocky Mountains

by Adrian Sutalo

North Park valley where
outdoor adventures await,
Great Lakes to Rocky Mountains 
journey, to seal a cervidae’s fate.

Roads past endless cornfields stretched toward the horizon,
acres tens of thousands of rolling golden prairies,
The burning smell...

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Poached, steamed, broiled, boiled, 
dried, fried  in soups and saucers, 
piled high,  their eyes bright, silver bodies shimmer in the harsh light of the hall.  
Fish and open mic night at Der...

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To 
                            accom-
                             plish
                       his mission
                     on this planet, 
                   A soldier porked 
               A sword on his chest, 
           Water and blood came out, 
All the soldiers and people astonished, 
It became dark in...

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Evil broiled him changing his thoughts, and he perceived not
The slow desiccation of his mind, how his brain infected rot
From the poison of pride! More and more putrid he became
Despising his brother for doing good,...

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I picked the house whilst floating down
After travelling to this country town
The air from the house was delicious
As the shouting voices raised were so vicious

The first one I saw was a little girl
And I touched...

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Dedicated to all the children who were
Victims of the conflicts in Syria

You have heard more grenades crack at dawn
As bullets wizz beneath your pale sun-
O Syrian Child! Whose family has been torn
By Taliban glories and...

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Long before sun light
was born from starkness

Long before Earth's dawn
broiled unsteady hot star fire

Long before She filled
Her scarlet mind
with Yang's high hills,
time was this love

This ancient life
reborn.

Long before our trees
greenly filled
Mother's forests

Long before a wind
unsailed...

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and the Lord delivered the King of Judah
into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar.

the choice gems of the Judean royal family —
chosen to serve in the Babylonian palace.

veggies, please…no meat, no wine
from the King’s table...no defilement.

God...

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