Ode to Pasta
...You are the stuff my culinary dreams are made of.
Unending shapes and sizes.
From skinny linguini to the rounded orecchiette
and squiggly fusilli.
As my tongue tastes morsels of your sau...
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Categories:
semolina, food, funny, parody, passion,
Form: Free verse
Pasta 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:
semolina, food, funny, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
Ler her know, about spell, Gospell! Respectfully, to get her, let her go!
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Ler her know, about spell, Gospell!
A Poem of Jibonananda Das
Intertwined light, through the lighted and the half lit dimmed
Not about a dream perhaps, perhaps among a tedious may
Not...
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Categories:
semolina, anti bullying, appreciation, deep,
Form: Free verse
Split Ends
...Her hair, blonde, is twisted in the wind.
The whipping strands are the colors
of the shinning cropland
by which she is standing. She is alone
by this golden feed that is bounteous; wholesome ...
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Categories:
semolina, allusion, angel, anger, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry
Puddings
...Jam roly poly, treacle sponge
And sticky toffee pudding head the top of my list
But apple pie, rhubarb crumble
Or a decent cheesecake are hard to resist
Banana splits, eclairs or brownies
Dump...
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Categories:
semolina, food,
Form: List
Beautiful U S Not
...Beautiful U....S not!
The source of troubles,
It is your fault..
One Bush comes,
Another one had to go,
But U...will always
Remain a foe,
Bill!..[Some say], ...
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Categories:
semolina, abuse, military, power, usa,
Form: Rhyme
My Mother In Law Is Poisoning Me
...MY MOTHER-IN-LAW IS POISONING ME!
I think my mother-in-law is poisoning me.
The electric range is smelling strange,
She tests the smoke detector by cooking everyday....
Now the entire kitchen i...
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Categories:
semolina, break up, change, cheer
Form: Free verse
Sweet Home Lagos
...Solitude?Come not to us our is not a ghost city.
Fun seeker? Come not alone our canopy is big .
Our fresh oceanic cuisine is surplus and honeymixed.
Fear not when baby whales are washed to the s...
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Categories:
semolina, home,
Form: Verse
Ingredients
...i prepared a simple supper
but with great love i cooked
that main meat of refined wheat
durum semolina, traded as rotini
an Italian pasta to go with beef, a grace
from a Canadian cow grazed in prai...
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Categories:
semolina, adventure, care, caregiving, community,
Form: Free verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Eight
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Eight
At her feet gather daily plumage dark white to brown leather
Pigeons geese crows sparrows larks and wild ducks in sunset colour
And the resident owners...
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Categories:
semolina, caregiving, dream,
Form: Quatrain
El Greco
...Sourlaki with chilli flakes
Halloumi salad
Batter-coated seasoned squid
with a Tzatziki
Semolina cake
Retsina
Class!...
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Categories:
semolina, food, places
Form: Epulaeryu
Perfect Pasta Pleasure
...Come gather one and all
As I tell you of a feast
That in this land
Could not be any finer
What is this meal called?
Give us a hint at least
What is so grand
And Heaven on earth, fair diner?
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Categories:
semolina, food, funny
Form: Rhyme
Cookies,Biscuits Or What You Will
...Chocolate melting moments
Coconut snowballs
Some semolina crunchies
Molasses cookies
A cherry whirl
Ginger nut
Break !...
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Categories:
semolina, food
Form: Epulaeryu