Long Cookbooks Poems

My “popcorn town”, Oak Bluffs
on Martha’s Vineyard,
always will be home to me
‘though I now live far away.
We were young when
we bought the old Victorian
with the wide wrap-around
porch. It needed a lot of work
but we fell...

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the Covid virus has altered humanity ...
    laid the world bare ... recovery will take time
      and the way we live must be altered
   ...

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Summertime is finally fleeting
and oddly, though, I am not sad.
Yes, the fields will soon be emptied
of pastel-colored flowers and buzzing bees
and wading knee-deep in tall, wild grass
as the sun takes its time in setting,
late into...

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Summertime is finally fleeting
and oddly, though, I am not sad.
Yes, the fields will soon be emptied
of pastel-colored flowers and buzzing bees
and wading knee-deep in tall, wild grass
as the sun takes its time in setting,
late into...

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the Covid 19 pandemic has changed
    the entire world ... and me personally
      I am a different person now
        have...

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BEWARE the BEAST! She bites! She Snores! She Snorkels!
No wonder Dragon likes her so much! She also Snarls, and Drools!
No one dares to wake her up… After they’ve done it, a time or two.
Yes! This...

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My fear is not of Joe with hair of  grey, mind in disarray, coherence at bay.

Main concern not about his overall knowledge lack, or how he doesn’t know Iran from Iraq, or cause he...

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In my dreams, I hear whispers and echoes from abandoned books
Begging for attention, from their old bookshelves and cozy library nooks 
Ghostly pages full of dust, some damaged from water leaks and mice
Genres untouched for...

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"Books are uniquely portable magic."
                     Quote by _Stephen King
________________

Books, I love and seek them...

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Paula Deen the Butter Queen

By Elton Camp and María Camp

She is the butter makers’ delight
To nutritionists, she is a fright
Krispy Kreme with eggs and bacon
Great health risks are thus taken

Her bacon cheeseburger meatloaf
Is perfect if...

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is it possible that i am doing this now
seems like just last lifetime i was eating cold french bread and just as cold lunch buckets in a parking lot
i think i still have the footprints...

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Each year I make the matzoh balls,
Which come out pretty good.
My husband cooks the chicken soup;
Our roles are understood.

He always wings it when he cooks,
Just uses what’s on hand
And never needs a recipe,
Which I can’t...

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Passing of an Icon


An accomplished Lady of recondite letters
Writing humanity to free from its fetters-	
From your clever Prose being deciphered,
With skewed minds, is where you differed. 
And where, with prejudice, our minds think
Fellow Human beings...

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You’ll do it yourself – the day after the doctor 
said, “no heavy lifting.” And your husband 
(dreaming again) insisted on a patriarchal turkey 
like you always used to have, when he’d 
handle the fowl...

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To mother Pearl with roses
Who loves not lies nor poses
Dislikes neighbors that’s nosy
Likes good weather that’s rosy

Mom is a very good cook
Cooks from scratch not from a book
In cookbooks she never looks
Cook’s lessons she never...

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In this coming new year-  I plan changes,
oh, I would like to burn this past year to ashes;
not seeking a metamorphose either.

Because there are parts of me that shine and glitter,
but there are parts...

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Not so very long ago
When I wanted to bake
I would go to my cookbooks
For a recipe to make

Tattered and stained they were
History literally splattered on
Notes written like ‘doubles well’ 
Or ‘sponge cake by Yvonne’

….sometimes even...

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Sheila loved reading about forensics and dinosaurs that once flew
She adored non-fiction, biographies, mysteries, UFO stories too
What kind of a mother will she be? Asked her cousin Strange Lou.
The kind who showed intelligence, a lifelong...

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my nanna was like one of many family /friends id rely on te one id g run to when i cant run to noone else. She was the one that always toldme when i had...

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I am a collector of cookbooks from every store,
I can never have enough I always need more.
Cookbooks with pretty food pictures galore,
I find them on every shore.
When I travel near and far,
I find a cookbook...

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A drive to Malbank
In Ontario is an area
On a country side road
A mennite restaurant
Where people go to eat

This place is also is a bakery
Selling an variety of bake goods
Plus souvenirs and keepsakes
Books to read and...

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Everybody’s noodle kugel
Varies in a way
And some taste just as different
As the night is to the day.

Most recipes were handed down,
A bit of family lore,
Or found in temple cookbooks,
Which have recipes galore.

I tried a few...

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I’m tossing out most of my cookbooks;
Makes sense since I don’t really cook.
The pages are marked
From the times I embarked
On a challenge which I undertook.

Those recipes once brought me pleasure,
But now seem like much more...

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