Prep Poems

Holiday Prep

Today I hit the kitchen
With my apron neatly tied,
Preparing many recipes
My file did provide.

For each year on the holiday,
I measure, chop and mix,
To make the dishes that tradition
Taught me how to fix.

If I have the ingredients,
The project’s kind of Zen.
I get into the zone of knowing
That I’m back again

To carry on like I have done
So

Categories: prep, food, today,
Form: Rhyme

Oh Ye That Cheerest

The patrons in the glory
with such nobel
esteem
gather as one
to form a great noble team
the make rules ofr the sports
the structures of the games
the dived to be officated
in these nobel bouts
The New Borough's
one team call's it self
the Other uses the Moniker
Of Madawaska to
decribe themselves
We together are holiest
no one is good
without us
each and every glory
Adhere to such

Categories: prep, business, music, repetition, sports,
Form: Ballade

Paint Job Prep

All the items on the walls
Must go, before the painter calls
And when they’re down, I’ll see the dust
So cleaning everything’s a must.

Then where to put them? There’s no room.
If closets are what you’d assume,
You’ve never really had to face
A New York home with not much space.

My sister says, your digs are small.
It’s easy to prepare

Categories: prep, home,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Four-Step Prep

First rule
  Stay cool

Keep calm
  Chant psalms

Destress
  God bless

At ease
  World's pleased

Categories: prep, peace, uplifting,
Form: Footle

Spring Garden Prep

SPRING GARDEN PREPARATION (20150213)

After the winter season
But before the rains begin
Catalogues of heirloom seeds
Delivered just in time
Earmarked and prioritized
Farmer’s Almanac consulted
Given planting periods
Horoscopes included (but useless!)
Individual seed varieties ordered
Junk mail shredded and added to compost
K (potassium) added as potash
Lumber purchased for trellises
Mulching around transplanted seedlings
Non-Genetically Modified Organisms only
Organic fertilizers only, too 
Planting by phases of

Categories: prep, food, garden, home, life,
Form: Abecedarian

Prep

raw canvas stretched tight
primed with neutral gray and white…
composed late at night

Categories: prep, art
Form: Senryu

Prep Talk

<                                      Peter ~ Piper ~ picked ~ pickled .... peppers

Categories: prep, adventure, childhood, education, fantasy,
Form: Limerick

Test Prep

My mind, it often jumps about
So much I must contain
With work and tests and home life, too
I feel I’ve hurt my brain
I’m reading all I have to read
To prepare me for my test
But life interrupts, calls attention
And gives my brain more stress
I must focus now on studying
It’s truly now what I must do
So, if I’m

Categories: prep, education, life,
Form: Rhyme

Prep

To those who have done prep

Prep up for break, hanging in morning dew
Made fast with sailing twine, awaiting dawn
Brass belaying pin holding halyard to
I glimpse across harbor, Third Fleet’s mowed lawn

My eyes upon OTC, I await
One whistle, the yellow and green closed up
As I snap nylon, open pennant break
Out she flies into the morning, sun

Categories: prep, life, work,
Form: Sonnet