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Peppercorns

...If each peppercorn was a life,
each is saddled in surrender
of shunless damnation.
They dwell in anguish--
death row prisoners.
They huddle together
awaiting torsion
as the grinder rends
the ...

Categories: peppercorns, life,
Form: Free verse

Pickled Onions

...
They don't taste the same
as the ones that filled
those big jars which sat 
in a cupboard serving out 
the four week wait.
My mouth still craves
for that first crisp bite, 
the tangy, sweet ...

Categories: peppercorns, childhood, grandmother, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Tarts Ode a L'Amour

...Thy arms are opened
                                         to embrace you
                                       to hear them sing
                                  ah-song of love and peace
  ...

Categories: peppercorns, business, desire, food, health,
Form: Ballade

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Lobster Shells

...This bowl of lobster shells 
looks very pretty
and yet so sad.
The bright red carcasses 
all cracked and emptied out
have served me well
with their luscious innards
of tender sweet flesh
unct...

Categories: peppercorns, america, august, food, seasons,
Form: Free verse

Ode To Black Peppercorns

...You wait solid in your round blackness
captive in glass.
Started as a fledgling a small bud
picked by a stranger’s hands.
Dried in the air on rooftops 
life emptying from you.
From across the C...

Categories: peppercorns, food,
Form: Sonnet

De Sweded Specail

...Ten pig ears cut into 3/4- 1/2 stripes
Ten 3/4 inch slabs of pork belly
Roll the pigears into circles and use the pork belly to seal the rolls. Using skewers  put two rolls to five skewers or make ...

Categories: peppercorns, culture, food, jealousy, love,
Form: Bio

Unicorns

...Unicorns 


Heavy is the tree that weeps
Deep  it  skins the knees 
Runny is the nose that blows
Speedily the river flows
Red are the cheeks that charm
Turnt backs do but harm
Burdened are i...

Categories: peppercorns, autumn, depression, environment, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Piper Nigrum

...one sneeze too many
seasoned grilled bacon slices
a flowering vine



Piper nigrum (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually...

Categories: peppercorns, nature,
Form: Haiku

Poor Pandora

...We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.

But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poet...

Categories: peppercorns, allegory, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Whipping With a Ten Foot Spade

...Now lightly sweep the peppercorns in a harbour. No drama. But underground is not a gate nor a post for these are only really ever positioned on hallucinogenic coastal paths where time stands and the ...

Categories: peppercorns, baseball, basketball, beach, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

Hollandaise Sauce

...In the eighteenth century, it made its first scene.
This is one of five main sauces in haute cuisine.
Culinary experts give credit to France,
although it may have come from the Netherlands by chan...

Categories: peppercorns, food
Form: Rhyme

Next Thing To Believe

...Why do we believe the hype they spread?
Next year they say we all might be dead
This spring all will shut down
Does this bring you a frown?
Rise of gasoline with rise of bread

We seem to belie...

Categories: peppercorns, confusion, funny, life, philosophy,
Form: Limerick

Making a Meal of It

...Crudités, fresh, piled high and swaggering
From the market, bought this evening.
Thrusting carrots, earth still clinging,
Crisp cos, perky peppers, piquant roquette,
Rude red radishes, cucumber f...

Categories: peppercorns, food, passion,
Form: Free verse