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Pesto Poems - Poems about Pesto

When In Rome

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No pease porridge for me if you please
neither hot nor cold
especially not if what's in the pot
is nine days old
for when in Parma Palermo or Pisa
(no pottage slop)
I'm predisposed an...
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Categories: pesto, drink, food, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPasta Love

...How do I eat thee? Let me count the ways:
sauced, buttered, plain,
sprinkled with Parmigiano Reggiano,
pesto, pancetta, bacon.
Rowdy rigatoni, flamboyant farfalle,
perky penne, funny fus...
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Categories: pesto, food, funny, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGreen

...Quote By Poet "A good friend makes a plain meal extra special."
 
green is colorful
comes in many pretty shades
mint to deep forest
 
 
green beans in my soup
pesto on my warm bread slice
de...
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Categories: pesto, food, friend, fun, green,
Form: Haiku

My Shopping List

...For Terry Flood,* since you insist,
Here, in rhyme’s my shopping list:

Orange juice and Starbuck’s (iced,
Even though it’s overpriced),

Bagels, Swiss and muenster cheese,
Whitefish salad, fr...
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Categories: pesto, food,
Form: Couplet

Cipation You Will Get In the End

......
Dont be compelled to finish this
Line s are pretty words in a
Row an argument in Scottish
buy pesto with pesetas
leaning back into later
or did L eat R
would that make it a letterabal
or ...
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Categories: pesto, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Go Figure

...she petitely
sits in my
kitchen

now is my
chance to
fulfill her

hips to
begin
with

an antipasto
then secunda
as i maniacally

in my mad man 
laugh make 
her prima

all the whil...
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Categories: pesto, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberFill 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,
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Categories: pesto, food,
Form: Rhyme

Demo

...12/30/15


It's prime time
And the difference is seperated by a fine line


Hello
All these fellows
Softer than marshmallows

Your girl keeps trying to stick to me like velcro
And continu...
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Categories: pesto, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Dinner

...DINNER

Tonight we’ll dine 
At a restaurant fine
.To order, we’ll start 
With the French words,
Entrée and a la carte.

Hors d oeuvres, escargo, 
Brei and dubonnet.
If those mean food,
Why...
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Categories: pesto, culture, food,
Form: Light Verse

Nevem Vanesso

...Vanesso a legjobbo
És megeszi az összes pesto
Most azt mondta: "menjünk"
Annak ellenére, hogy úgy érezte, olyan alacsony
Így evett néhány pesto
Így o lett az legjobbo
Valamennyi a resto

Vane...
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Categories: pesto, hair, hip hop, homework,
Form: Acrostic

The European Queen Victoria

...I am the queen of geography
I deserve a trophy 
I am the best
better than the rest
this is why I am the queen

In Turkey I swim I skinny dip in the lake
eating some cake
because I am the quee...
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Categories: pesto, allah, bible, bird, black
Form: Burlesque

Octogenarian Wedding

...( Hum to the tune of "Get me to the Church on time!"

The old guy's getting married to a fat virgin,
Ding dong, the wedding hearse does shine!
That's what he gets for perving!
Get him to the mor...
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Categories: pesto, farewell, funeral, grandfather, nonsense,
Form: Ghazal

Cumuli

...Cumuli
October 24, 2013 at 12:56pm

The contents of my head empty into my stomach
Where nonsense meets yesterday’s frozen Styrofoam spinach cheese pesto ravioli dinner
And a mix of fake pepperon...
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Categories: pesto, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHandkerchiefs

...Of open ravioli
Pepperonata
Tomato & pepper stew
Pesto & goats cheese
Slow roasted garlic
Chianti
Smell!...
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Categories: pesto, food
Form: Epulaeryu

Nutty

...Pine nuts
May remind you
Of Pesto,
They rewind
Me to Rome.
Eternal blue skies
Soccer games
Lemon and fragola ice creams
The Vatican,
 A city once called home.
My neighbor Giorgio
We met at...
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Categories: pesto, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

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