Food Missed
...The poetry of the COVID era (read to the end)
Thai pineapple rice. Wonton and Yaki Soba
Tortufo ice cream. Scallopini veal, halva and also soda
Tamago, octopus and yellowtail. Ribs, pasta fagiol...
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Categories:
lox, america, food,
Form: Rhyme
Pumpernickel
...Dress up this tasty circular bread
with cream cheese, lox, or veggie spread.
A pumpernickel choice with marmalade jelly, just cried out to my empty belly.
There are too many people in this wai...
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Categories:
lox, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Custodian of Tradition
...My son Jacob, he follows traditions
Religious, he has certain ambitions
He prays to God three times a day
I think he even knows what to say
Straight as an arrow, and square as a b...
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Categories:
lox, food, humor, jewish, mother
Form: Couplet
What To Feed Your Valentine
...Valentine's Day is more special when you
Take your sweet out to eat at a romantic venue.
Add appeal to the meal,
And show him/her how you feel,
With a side dish not found on the menu:
With faj...
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Categories:
lox, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 2
...*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 2
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
The batter's foul ball killed a fowl that later caused a foul o...
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Categories:
lox, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Whatever Happened To Breakfast
...Whatever happened to breakfast, lamented French Toast
People love me, gushing with syrup, I used to boast
But now my brand is flat as a pancake
~ as popular as a post-H...
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Categories:
lox, food, humor, loss, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Oldielocks and the Three Bores
...Lady Melanie with silver locks
Loved her bonbons, bagels, and graved lox.
Curmudgeon geezers viewed her a fox,
But she loved them less than chicken pox.
Melanie kept free as best she could.
Sh...
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Categories:
lox, anxiety, car, feelings, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Nyc Sabbath Prayer
...Coffee shops bloom into aroma.
New York City
spew on the sidewalk.
This day Lord if you care;
in the timpani of each mind
thunder your long bong songs.
Bless the rats in their
dank hid-ey-hol...
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Categories:
lox, poetry,
Form: Free verse
House Detective
...Sitting here watching TV about the Sherlock Homes tales,
we are all biting our nails. <>
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Categories:
lox, food, friend, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
En Guard
...Poop in a box
Poop in a box
I'm sending by mail
my poop in a box.
No cost to me
the postage is free
poop in a box
poop in a box.
I treat people nice with sugar and spice,
never wanting ...
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Categories:
lox, boxing day , humorous, image,
Form: Rhyme
The Discovery of the Bagel
...Whoever came up with the bagel
was a right-smart clever fellow
His brainstorm surely ranks up there
with taste treats like pudding and jello
For I'd never put toppings on pudding
like lo...
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Categories:
lox, creation, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Ruth and Dave's
...There was a store in Brooklyn selling
Food we’d often crave.
The owners were a couple
Known to all as Ruth and Dave.
On weekends I was sent there
Walking just a few short blocks
To buy bagels...
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Categories:
lox, memory,
Form: Rhyme
They Just Don'T Care
...Call it as it is!
Not mistaken.
Not uninformed –
They just don't care!
Death in record numbers
at our Southern Border;
Death in the streets
of large cities from
Fentanyl...They just
don'...
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Categories:
lox, patriotic, perspective, political, poverty,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Fox In the Foxglove
...Among these wonderful flowers,
I could sit here for many hours,
winding vines among the bowers;
they have power, they have power.
I will watch family of doves,
with their little one...
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Categories:
lox, animal, appreciation, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Samuel P Jingo
...Samuel P. Jingo was destined to be the king of kings
The color of a skunk or dairy cow, we called him Jings.
He kept saying he did not mean to pull the sword from the stone.
It was an accident, s...
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Categories:
lox, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
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