Melba Poems

sandras appetite

Sandra’s appetite was elephantine
People gathered at nine to watch her dine
She loved her beef, ham, and duck in a roast.
Also. cheesy eggs, ham and beans, and melba toast.

Breakfast was hashbrowns, bacon, cheese and ham.
Left of the plate was a brown gravy mashed up damn.
Lunch was never a sandwich or anything small.
Sandra weighed four hundred pounds and was two foot tall.

YESTERDAY a refrain

Toasted teacakes,parmesan cheese
Croquetted chicken,fricasees;
Apple dumplings,yogurt creamed
Welsh mutton,in pudding,steamed.

Baked Alaska,Banbury cake
Lyons ices with  Cadbury flake;
Gorganzola buttered roll
Side salad oil drizzled,in a bowl.

Melba meringue,warm mince pies
Filet mignon,mushrooms and fries;
Sunday roast in dripping jelly
Onions and peppered tripe belly.

Trout poached,not microwaved
Slowly cooked,and no time saved;
Thick fishstock,bouillabaissed
Beefsteak so lightly braised.

Hash browns,sausage,gravy and mash
Casseroled stew or goulash;
Poached,simmered maybe pressure cooked
Tempting meals from Granma's book.

Food Memories

Toasted teacakes,parmesan cheese
Croquetted chicken,fricasees;
Apple dumplings,yogurt creamed
Welsh mutton,in pudding,steamed.

Baked Alaska,Banbury cake
Lyons ices with  Cadbury flake;
Gorganzola buttered roll
Side salad oil drizzled,in a bowl.

Melba meringue,warm mince pies
Filet mignon,mushrooms and fries;
Sunday roast in dripping jelly
Onions and peppered tripe belly.

Trout poached,not microwaved
Slowly cooked,and no time saved;
Thick fishstock,bouillabaissed
Beefsteak so lightly braised.

Hash browns,sausage,gravy and mash
Casseroled stew or goulash;
Poached,simmered maybe pressure cooked
Tempting meals from Granma's book.

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2008

Monster Trees

Monster Trees 

Monster trees reaching down through insane skies like spiders,
They see something coming in the green benign stretches,
We are the onion ring bearers wearing dark-day secrets.
We know what happens when bearded eyes shut tight,
When the dead wave from hearses designed for blind drivers,
As the hatchet girls crawl into the blast barges of mindless ropery,
Monster trees with long tentacled arms scoop up the night cats.
They reach for berries made of balsa wood and Melba toast;
They reach down from far distances seizing innocent souls crawling,
These ghost trees, floating as life clouds, through memory and time;
Through deserted forgotten neighborhoods with skeleton trellises.
We are the lettuce turners, the meat shredders, with raised hopeful fists.
Wearing chiffon camisoles made with Melba toast and dark-day secrets, 
The hatchet girls raise lapping glasses of mad rum to the blast barges.

Beauty of Lady

M-use
E-mploys
L-ady's
B-eauty
A-s

E-xcellent
D-ivine
Q-uote
U-ses
I-magery
B-ringing
A-wesone
N-obility

Topic: Birthday of Melba Edquiban (August 02) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Effulgent Dawn

M-orn's
E-arly
L-ight
B-egins
A-s

E-ffulgent
D-awn
Q-uietly
U-ses
I-mpressive
B-eacon
A-fter
N-ighttime

Topic: Birthday of Melba Edquiban (August 02) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Live Better

M-ay
E-veryone
L-ive
B-etter
A-nywhere

Topic: Birthday of Melba Quiambao (April 22) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Fill Up That Plate

chili, pasta, steak,
		fresh fruit salad, lemon cake,
		gravy, gumbo, roast,     
		bacon, jelly, melba toast,
		spicy pizza, stews,
		juicy kiwis, taffy chews,
		shish kabob, rolls, greens,
		melon, pesto, pinto beans,
		apple pie, mango,
		guava, green mints, Oreos—
		Heads bowed . . . Grace . . .  Ready . . . Feast!


Date: December 19, 2017

Contest Title:Fem Bogstaver (Danish)

Sponsor: Rhoda Tripp

On Giving Up Heroin

On giving up heroin 

and all night long I danced with the crooked hand of death
and the crooked hand of death danced with me back,

one, two, three times a day, I took the meds and sweated blood
then after a million years in a tunnel (not the tunnel of love)
 I learnt to dance a new jig… with new feet and a good body
and a clear mind

now I am a new citizen with a new coat and a new soul (my own) 
and a feeling good job
and the rain comes with the sun and the brilliance of the countryside 
 makes me tingle

but this time not in the vein in my arm but in the free spirit 
inside of me 
and inside of them 
and inside of  cornfields  
and deep, warm rivers and creeks
 
and  I’m free now ,my pockets full of crisp notes 
(and poetry)  with a howdee doo dee apple pie 
good morning to you, under a sweet rehab 
peach melba sky!

The Perfect Woman

THE PERFECT WOMAN

What does a perfect woman mean? 
Does it mean something that meets your standards?
A standard measured by physical appearance
or from within towards one's heart and soul?

Perfect is just a label 
A label to define what you like in a woman
A woman whom you want to be with for the rest of your life
A life that will make you feel satisfied.

What is a perfect woman for me?
The perfect woman is a woman who is beautiful inside and out
Not only in the sight of those around us
But in the sight of GOD


By: Ms.Melba Regina V.Sales
      ( a.k.a.REGZ THE SINGING DIVA former RIPPED HEART AND SOUL)

Bon Appetit

Aperitifs and hard spirits,
With canapes and rarebits.
Delicious hors de ouvres,
Accompanied by tangy dips.
Tomato soup with crouton,
And an entree of mouton;
My strawberry red sorbet:
Makes way for my releve.
Bring on the roast,
Not with melba toast;
Poor lentils of course,are the ones hated most.
Don't forget legumes,are vegetables of course!
The entremets the sweetest,of the entire course.
This cafe's hot coffee,makes me feel not to snore,
I've got to the finish sipping Bailey's liqueur.
                                                             ---- Princefreakasso
                                                                   (Artist and Poet)

Cool Canapes

tomato pizza cheese bites
onion bhaji
a spiced vegetable roll
melba toast pate
prawn cocktail dip
fruit kebabs
Snack !

Sunshine Drinks

An old fashioned lemonade
Peach Melba cooler
A glass of  Spanish sangria
Pina colada
Pimms with fruit skewers
Or planter's 
Punch !

Yesterday's Menus

Toasted teacakes,parmesan cheese
Croquetted chicken,fricasees;
Apple dumplings,yogurt creamed
Welsh mutton,in pudding,steamed.

Baked Alaska,Banbury cake
Lyons ices with  Cadbury flake;
Gorganzola buttered roll
Side salad oil drizzled,in a bowl.

Melba meringue,warm mince pies
Filet mignon,mushrooms and fries;
Sunday roast in dripping jelly
Onions and peppered tripe belly.

Trout poached,not microwaved
Slowly cooked,and no time saved;
Thick fishstock,bouillabaissed
Beefsteak so lightly braised.

Hash browns,sausage,gravy and mash
Casseroled stew or goulash;
Poached,simmered maybe pressure cooked
Tempting meals from Granma's book.

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