Long Tupperware Poems

An American perspective on domestic and world events, in no particular order

SCOTUS rules that Trump’s immune
China flies the spy balloon
Starship booster landing glee
J. Assange is walking free

Bergdorf, Neiman join Saks
Our Secret Service sucks
Russia swaps her...

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(a list poem in rhyming couplets)

Pieces of literature there’s so much of
Pieces of artifacts seen that we love

Pieces of good advice given each day
Pieces of rubbish I just throw away

Pieces of plates in shatters when...

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Remember stuck on 
band-aid brand,
Because band-aid 
is stuck on you?
  Remember when
 the furniture was
Made from wicker 
and bamboo?

  Remember three
 on a bike with
the banana-seat.
  Remember the 
Magazine called,
Tiger Beat?

 ...

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What to sacrifice first?
A lawn ornament I never liked.
It looks fantastic in the neighbor's kitchen.

Secondly, I threw out a drum I have not played in forty years.
The neighbors called to let me hear their son...

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Brain strain – A kitchen adventure 

Broken ladles scattered about the new granite countertops
Veins of years gone by, prehistoric earth tremblings, spotted composites
in a vast array of colors, wickedly smooth and hard as rock (go...

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Christi’s Chicken
In the event you may want
Something more before
I can return,
There’s some of my famous chicken
Here somewhere
Behind the milk, (in the yellow Tupperware).
Remember how Christi
Would beg and plead
“Make your chicken please!”
The rare times I came...

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I'll need the first few lines...
to set this up for you...
and once again, my word,
this really is quite true...
a co-worker at my last job,
a part-timer he really was,
became quickly known as a slob,
and rather odd,...

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Behind closed doors

Do you wonder what lies behind a door that's closed?
And are you curious about what might be exposed? 
The door itself may give a clue as to what lies behind
What does a red...

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Take me back to a time when have a Pepsi was for merry people at Christmas,
When General Electric fairy lights hung on real trees and pine needles fell,
Father Christmas smoked Pall Mall cigarettes because they...

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Here’s an often overlooked fact I’m sure many parents would concede:
The larger a family grows…and extends…the more Tupperware you need!

Yes, there’s an easy way to tell when your family dynamic is changing…
that has nothing to...

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I am from Tupperware-lined pantry shelves
Ziploc bags of cereal
Sunshine and bumble-bee brown 
Kitchen counters

I am from the crackling ice of Norway
the horns of Jericho
the sweltering heat of Phoenix

I'm from a town removed from time
wood and...

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Orange and Green would not exist without her
For they depend on her mixture to be created.
Mix yellow with blue, voila – green.
Mix yellow with red, voila – orange.

Yellow is bring, clean, fresh.
Yellow rejuvenates, regenerates, enthralls,...

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I wrote this about my friends on the social web sight
zombie-station.ning.com


In Van Gerren's mind

Tied up tight with twisted twine

Is a dusty old book

If we could just take a look


Then there is our Queenie

What goes on...

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When God was younger than today
Before the time of dinosaurs and eggs
There were many things to be invented
It was almost like magic the way He worked

What came first you might imagine
Angels, heavens, planets or Tupperware
Creation...

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Last year, I was putting up new curtains
Adding new rugs to my trailer
Taking chances on bright and bold colors
All the glories of new beginnings

Last year, I was adding to my Tupperware
New bowls, happy and vivid
To...

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Twenty-five years 
since we agreed to this and still,
I vow to be there,  
just outside your line of sight,  
as you confidently mispronounce quinoa,
as you decide, again, that the best way 
to check...

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14 eggs
2 1/2 tsp. of salt
2 1/2 tbsp. of vinegar
8 cloves of garlic
2 korean green peppers
1 redli
4 green peppers
1 1/2 tbsp of sesame seeds
1 cup of soy sauce
4 tablespoons of crown royal
1/2 cup of honey
2...

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every game was about baby, the theme is pink and gold
the giggles and laughter by women, never get old
the jokes are hilarious, this baby shower is a delight
mom and I will talk about it all...

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I had different dreams once, but they’re still here;
They’re in the bathroom trash with the tampons and empty cigarette packs,
They’re splattered across the sink with his razor trimmings,
They lay across our bookshelves with the dust.
A...

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Advertised as an Estate Sale
Which I took to mean
Not just yard sale discards.

Here are some 
Of the things you could obtain:

Aluminum baking pans
Plastic punch bowl
Four segments of track from a train set
Discolored tea-towels with embroidered...

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He sparks the fiery conversation 
Ever so slightly, she warms to his cool attentions
Inviting his charm and well placed punctuation
Approving of his advances and clear intentions

It starts out a suffocating initiation
With some discomfort and smoke...

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Do you ever have those days
When your mind wonders in a haze
And you take yourself through time and space
Back to your child hood, that special place
And you think of toys you would never share
Your Transformers,...

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It always rains in my hometown,
The clouds are kind enough to wash what they can away

The town cut out my tongue,
It grew back sharper and quicker than the one they stole.

I walk by the river,
Still...

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Sophie Dog knows who will share their food, and who will not.
If my husband gets near the kitchen, 
she can hear the cupboard from two miles out,
and she comes flying through that dog door.
If he...

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tossing a can of tuna,
I remember only the density of the metal,
and the death of a fish;
Malleable shrapnel, as I added apples,
to taste like Mom's,
energized by love, defeated in youth,
throwing a million sea people,
back to...

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