Red Chard
...Start with a red onion and dice it all up.
Then slice up some mushrooms (no more than a cup).
Saute in some oil in a cast iron pan;
it quickly will soften in a few minutes span.
Then separate...
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Categories:
low cal, appreciation, food,
Form: Couplet
The Weeds of Avalon
...life is a messy slurry
Tyson fury
an Olga tumble
an Ali shuffle
a low cal rumble
in nuclear jungles
hammer and sickle
stars and stripes
a polka dot pickle
citizen cocaine in the middle
PUR...
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Categories:
low cal, life,
Form: Free verse
He Leadeth Me
...HE LEADETH ME
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want,
He leadeth to lose Corona virus weight gain,
and to keep it off for my health's sake.
He causes me to remember
to drink water instead of...
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Categories:
low cal, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Getting Much More Difficult
...Getting Much More Difficult
By Franklin Price
11/10/2019
It's getting much more difficult
When looking back to see
Just what our founding fathers
Meant for this changing place to be
They d...
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Categories:
low cal, america, people, political, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Quit Yer Bellyachin'
...
Stop complainin’ ‘bout how much
yer stomach hurt
It’s yer own fault that yer feelin’ that way
Got a heavy Ding Dong diet
of cream-filled, empty truth lies
Low-cal info givin’ ya no ener...
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Categories:
low cal, humor, people, satire, sick,
Form: Light Verse
Gluttony One of Seven
...Gluttony One of the Seven
By Franklin Price
12/19/2016
Gluttony one of the seven sins
That are deadly and defined
The Christmas Season's calling me
To make it one of mine
Two turkeys on t...
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Categories:
low cal, christmas, food,
Form: Rhyme
On the Diet
...no bacon
gut achin’
ice cream
left scene
faux “no thankies”
hide my crankies
supplement
doesn’t dent
appetite
up all night
low-cal goop
messy poop
fart unseen
gas ‘o lean
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Categories:
low cal, nonsense,
Form: Footle
Plain White Bread
...Plain White Bread
There is something said for plain white bread,
It’s the wheat and oats I really dread.
And real sugar, not that blue or pink,
Nothing artificial, I tend to think.
Give me mi...
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Categories:
low cal, funnyme, me,
Form: Rhyme