Long Hotdogs Poems

GARLAND
By Kate H. Stark


It happened while practicing my violin. 

I practiced at home on a seat near the door.
I suddenly felt a huge urge to explore.  

The bluebirds were soaring up high in the...

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Leisurely sat on a busy beach
A hive of noise and activity
A collage of shifting 
Shape and colour form
Just casually surveying the view

I felt the hot intense expanding rays Of the sun
Scorch and burn my sensitive...

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“Jealousy”
Jimmy had odds to beat, one he was a black teen and the temptations of big city’s Streets. 
But a single black mother’s determination held his attention sternly,
So he had only Minimal interaction with streets.
He...

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It stood magnificently in front of our Churchyard,
Like the sacred fig tree before any temple-yard;
My going to church, as a boy, had no other reason,
Than picking all bird-dropped fruits, as a mission;
Collecting as many as...

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Spending an entire weekend
             with one of your best friends
             ...

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Ah, the great American food mind!
Nobody else could ever make such a find...
The American "Red Hot", or HotDog..
A national tradition...
Superb in every edition....
But my son and I,
When to the movies we went,
Had a hotdog, and...

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AntiPoem 31 “Rita Montero”

(Poet’s instruction: Kindly play “Ay, Mama Inez” 
by Rita Montero while reading this AntiPoem)

a red trolley finds Ebbets Field behind a pigtown ditch
significant hotdogs and burnt singles melt into the pitch
Jackie Robinson...

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When I was young and a child
growing up in Discovery , Florida
South Africa 

1 of the few limited thing's we actually
had or could do was go the Drive-Inn 

There was Veldskoen , Hilfox , 5-Star
and...

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We danced all night on Maxwell street 
singing the blues and eating chicago style 
hotdogs driving by Halsted my hair blew in 
the breeze as I winked at the Cermax river 

flowing of winter green...

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I should eat healthy, I really should!  But life is too short for that.  Food, food, food, 

it chases away the blues, it brings comfort to the soul.  So here is a...

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We weren't rich by any means
but our bellies were full and our clothes were clean

They didn't display those high priced names
but they wore fine just the same

We didn't ride around in fancy cars
Grandma saved pennies...

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We finally arrived after going 
through metal detectors passing 
through so many children mothers 
praying for their sons then there 
was us my curiosity of it all passing 
the guards I felt strange this place...

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Socialites

those was good days.
sneakin' out the bedroom window
tryin' harder not to wrinkle our frocks
than not to wake momma

runnin' down the dusty road
with pointy-toe pumps in tote
hopin' we didn't miss too much
of the party.

greeted at the...

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They organized a church bazaar,
To raise money for the poor.
A booth for selling chances
Was set up, outside the door.

When I bought the raffle ticket, 
My reasoning was murky,
And I could only just believe it,
When I...

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Sestina for a Forgotten Cousin Midget

Kids are midgets
Like gnats, infested around the water
Melons buried in ice
Moms mixing up grape and lime Kool-Aid
Smoke smolders from reddened charcoal
Hot dog buns muffle family reunion noise

From the bath house...

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Summertime meals are delicious
sandwiches with sliced tomatoes
green beans cooked with new potatoes

Homegrown, healthy and nutritious
garden vegetables and fruits
a mixture of tubers and roots

Meals are often expeditious
hotdogs and burgers on the grill
homemade ice cream an added...

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I've traveled the world o'er and consider myself a connoisseur,
Of the sandwich specialities of many a haughty entrepreneur.
I've sunk my teeth into tuna fish and spicy barbecue,
But there ain't nothin' like a rueben and ...

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Rally around the campfire
in the dark of a summer night.
Tell some interesting old stories 
and cook by a campfire light.

Skewer some slender juicy hotdogs  
maybe puffy marshmallows too.
Make them crisp and really gooey
to last...

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I know now time never stands still
When it is due, pay your electric bill
Sometimes you have to sacrifice minutes to save hours
It is no picnic when you have no power
Being able to play your tunes,...

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Feel my bare toes weave in and out
Moist mossy green grass
To warm golden-yellow sand

Feel the breeze rush around
My smooth summer-tan skin

Feel stonger winds take control
Over my chin-length chestnut brown hair

Hear the graon of the floating...

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I always wanted a Spanish name sweet enough to push your buttons and alluring enough to make you hard. 
The morning I first felt hollow, sitting on my bedroom floor binge eating hotdogs on a...

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Just an Old Cooler

Not much to look at,
Hard to carry,
Won’t through it away.

To you, it looks dirty,
To me, it looks used.
From the late 1960s

To you, it appears empty,
To me, it's full of memories.
I miss my...

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I miss your laughter,the way you could make me laugh,
    Your spontaneity,how we would go for rides at a drop of a hat.
    
    With very...

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Put Her Clothes On

Gave illustrious example of intermingling
As to how it will compare with singling
Someone out from a huge, big crowd
Being exuberant and sexually endowed.
(Who Trump said Hillary isn't.)

Why would you do a thing like...

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It is summer,
and the umbrella men
are selling hotdogs.

A good-looking priest
enters Saint Pat's,
gangly girls giggle,
then make the sign of the cross.

Thursday is All-You-Can-Eat pizza day,
the joints will be too crowded,
the slices rushed out, slapped down
way to...

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