THE NOTEBOOK
I still see my mother
sitting at the kitchen table
copying out her favorite recipes
from the Women’s Weekly magazine.
With pen in hand,
she’d carefully write the recipe,
word for word in her notebook.
There are hundreds that
she collected over the decades.
That notebook, with its dog-eared pages,
crusty stains and side notes,
is now in my hands.
The thing is, I don’t cook—
my other
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Categories:
recipes, family, food, mother,
Form: Free verse
A Confession of Recipes
If you're reading this, honey
it means the diner is burning,
It's not a typo or a misprint,
but a message:
Witches are wisdom-embedded
women who have seen worse things
than the business end of a newt's behind
I once made a man cry with desire
on a whim by telling him who he was
at twenty-five, I hadn't yet realized
it's really just
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Categories:
recipes, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Ring Ceromony
Oompah Whoomp).....do you like the groove
Pling Plicka Pling).......it moves me when you sing
Oompah Whoomp)......Scat dew wanna OOh we do
Plinga Plinga Plung).... ya'll groovin got people dancing
Oompah whoomp)......dancing dancing (whoo1!)
plagerizzato la mia musica
perche sono meno conosciuto
Mi e piaciuto chiamare il mio
partner per cercare di
assomerlo da me
cosi potrei essere depresso e tutto solo
Cerberus
________________
parlando di boro ma
moglie quando
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Categories:
recipes, song,
Form: Ballade
Grandma's Recipe
I picked up Grandma’s recipe book the other day…the one she made just for me…written in her own hand and filled with my favorite recipes.
On the first page of my cookbook…these words…always waiting for me…
‘It’s easy to be a good cook’ she wrote, ‘just follow the recipe!’
As I leafed through the pages in Grandma’s recipe
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Categories:
recipes, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Marie's Finger-Licking Recipes
Marie's recipes finger-licking, why
poor Raymond lived dangerously close by
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Categories:
recipes, food, funny,
Form: Limerick
Grandma's Recipes
They’ve all saved Grandma’s recipes…some they know by heart…many in a copy of the book she wrote them in…for it is often amidst her recipes…where memories of her begin.
Whenever they read her handwriting…sort through her ingredients…turn on a mixer…pick up a knife…whenever they bake what Grandma baked…it brings her back to life.
For it is surrounded
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Categories:
recipes, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Recipes
Rich people all in receipts
Have things for their recipes
Poor people not in receipts
Don’t know what’s recipe
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Categories:
recipes, character, food, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Life: a Music of Recipes
oh my, yo-
yo ma
a synthesis
treasure
of thought
recipe creativity
told the secret
of recipes
for minds
that hunger
for the purities
of an actuality-logic
foundation to
all endeavors
(shhhhh...
what trial and error of
mind-concepts that works
makes any reality possible)
stan sand
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Categories:
recipes, appreciation, life, music,
Form: Free verse
Recipes and Cookbooks Galore
I am a collector of cookbooks from every store,
I can never have enough I always need more.
Cookbooks with pretty food pictures galore,
I find them on every shore.
When I travel near and far,
I find a cookbook that is a real star.
With thousands of great recipes to cook,
How in the world do I just take one look?
Cookies
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Categories:
recipes, drink, family, food, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Is There Any Chocolate Bars Out There Recipes Needed
Is There Any Chocolate Bars Out There – Recipes Needed
All the planets are just too far
For me to drive there in my car
I therefore can’t go there to explore
To see if they have chocolate bars
But wouldn’t it be so much fun
To Snickers to them up there some
My deep fried choco bars
Which we agree
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Categories:
recipes, chocolate, fantasy, fun, giggle,
Form: Free verse
Sumerian Recipes
OUR MASGOUF
The fishes have high wings, but they can feel our deep pain like sisters. Yes, we are the fishes’ brothers and any halo you may see in the dark night is a birthday of this brotherhood. Come here and see the seeds of this earth in an ancient Sumerian tablet, which its recipes
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Categories:
recipes, food,
Form: Prose Poetry
Savoring
savoring
one recipe at a time
rich exotic flavors
posted on July 31, 2018
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Categories:
recipes, appreciation, culture, food,
Form: Senryu
Granny's Recipes
From fruit scones, to meat pie,
Apple crumble and coffee cake,
Sunday tea was amazing,
Because, my Granny sure could bake.
Secret ingredients, she wouldn't divulge,
Passed down from years gone by,
When I look back on those days,
It brings a tear to my eye.
From butterfly buns, to Victoria sponge,
A moist fruit loaf, filled with flavour,
Jam tarts and gingerbread men,
For the
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Categories:
recipes, birthday, childhood, family, food,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Recipes For Disaster Planning
Caffeine distracts lethargy of wine
as wine attracts simplicity
refining caffeine's dark dualistic depths.
Some substitute weed for wine.
Others mix these all together,
serve over sturdy blocks of ice
refusing to unmelt choices
and hope for Time's most generous best.
Serving more than one.
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Categories:
recipes, adventure, beauty, community, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
SoulFood Recipes for Peace
Rob Brezsny reports
In 2004, San Rafael hosted a World Conference of Soul-Making
resulting in three schools for best PeaceMaking practices,
to which I will add one
more democratically inclusive,
less autonomously exclusive.
"The Ruminators
theorized that humans are born without [divine] souls
and can create them only through arduous,
disciplined rebellion against all [trauma-informed] belief systems.
The Resonators
agreed that soul [peace] isn't innate,
but
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Categories:
recipes, culture, deep, growth, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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