Short Buttermilk Poems

Long kinky hair
Caramel, buttermilk, or gravy colored skin
So tall...

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longest day
dipping cornbread
in buttermilk

Published Modern Haiku...

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gravy on the side
lightly poured on a biscuit
Southern spicy grits

9/8/2018...

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Buttermilk clouds with lavender tinged linings
Float on pink ribbons of an evening sunset.....

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buttermilk sky
clouds race the moon
london
walking through russell square
where we first embraced our love...

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Quail with lentils and yoghurt
smoked salmon nibbles
bresaola with ripe fig
buttermilk pudding
a chocolate malt ice cream
Blooming good-
Try!...

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Chicory and parsley soup
smoked streaky bacon
devilled prawn notepaper bread
sweet sandwich granache
buttermilk snow with
pink rhubarb
Drool !...

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Grandma's buttermilk biscuits
Side of sausage, too--
Best hot--straight from the oven
With sauteed apples,
Or apple butter,
Brewed coffee
Yum!


Written 4/21/2021...

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'neath buttermilk skies 
my soul on the horizon -
I have found my voice 


Susan Ashley 
April 26, 2020


~ Third Place ~
Morning Praise Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Raul Moreno...

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sun hat
on a yellow peg

semaphore light
shape-shifting
on spanish tiles

buttermilk blinds
flap
broken slats

a trapped sky hums
lazy crumb songs

light spreads sticky wings
over marmalade bread...

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sun hat
on a yellow peg

semaphore light
shape-shifting
on spanish tiles

buttermilk blinds
flap
broken slats

a trapped sky hums
lazy crumb songs

light spreads sticky wings
over marmalade bread...

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19 quails
Deepfried
In buttermilk , eggwash and seasoned flour
With a
Butter, honey, lemon and cayenne sauce
Butternut squash and shrimp quiche
Tomato and lettuce salad
French bread


Ice cream and french toast with
Caremal and nuts...

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Buttermilk, Golden Brown, Crepes
  Soft, Smooth, Farmers Cheese
  Add the Sweet Yellow Raisins
   Small Curd  Cottage Cheese
      Orange Liqueur Flambe
          Pleased Velum
               AH! 

Dedicated  to " Professor " Joseph Spence...

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Buttermilk, Golden Brown, Crepes
  Soft, Smooth, Farmers Cheese
  Add the Sweet Yellow Raisins
   Small Curd  Cottage Cheese
      Orange Liqueur Flambe
          Pleased Velum
                AH!

     Dedicated to " PROFESSOR " Joseph  Spence...

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Buttermilk sky, early dawn
Sun bringing sweet sips of life,
Warm promising day ahead
No school on a springtime Saturday.

SECOND PLACE WINNER
written February 26, 2022
especially for "LIND30nr" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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(This is a fictional poem)

My cow didn't give buttermilk when I pulled on her udders.
Only regular milk came out even though I fed her lots of butter.
Now I'm feeding my cow lots of chocolate but no chocolate milk is coming out.
People say when it comes to believing that I'm stupid, they have no doubts....

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Molly’s Country Kitchen

~Polk stalks sliced, rolled in flour fried
   Refried Pinto beans
   Fresh Polk leaves rolled in eggs fried
   Buttermilk, cornbread
   One large Green onion 
   Apple pie
   Yum!

   Written 4-30-2011
   For and in honor of: Gwendolen Rix
   And Contest: Fast Food Epulaeryu...

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It all starts with the cornbread
buttermilk, of course
seared in an iron skillet
crunchy outer crust
southern tradition
slap-your-mom
good!

Crawfish, Andouille sausage,
crumbled up cornbread,
onions, celery, apples,
cranberries, pecans,
cinnamon and sage,
moistened and
baked!
...

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Moonshine drapes
 laundered white
  wetting two
   raw appetites
Petite niblets
 morsels of feast
  captured by
   rocking beast
Flash of light
 off window pane
Motherhood tattoo
 nary a shame
Tepid buttermilk
 readied sup
  served in flowered
   demitasse cup
Perched on haunches
 shutter release
Private drive
 now restful peace...

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Hot coffee tickles
with sugar and cream
Buttermilk kisses
that feel like a dream
Brown sugar wishes
and grape jelly sighs
French toast desires
in blueberry eyes
Tangerine blushes
beneath satin sheet
Marmalade whispers
so cinnamon sweet 
Warm maple syrup
on fresh morning skin
The perfect way
for our day to begin

~...

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.                      
                     Sift flour in Mom’s crock bowl 
                              Make a volcano
                       Add the buttermilk and lard
                    Squeeze! ..Have fun! ..Nip buds 
                        Wait!!    First, pat for luck! 
                             Bake!…Eat warm!...
                                     Home!!...

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Warm milk, babies at breast.
Cold, cartoned milk for rest.

Vitamin D, calcium for teeth,
And bones. Cow's milk's sweet.

Goat's milk and silky soy milk.
All good. Some like buttermilk.

It's clear, it is nature's way.
Some need bottles, that's ok.

In homes, in zoos, in the wild.
Milk, wholesome milk for child.

Grown ups should drink it too.
Not a doubt, it's good for you....

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We used to have buttermilk
and Austrian white wine
from Safeways
and used to buy 2nd hand Prog from Beanos
The years have sped by
and I'm not recalling any standout shop now
Unless you include the durable Buddist centre
Toothless gaps in the town square
The Whitgift Centre is half empty
Samsung Mobile shop is closed
The years have not been very Kind
The sound of laughter is removed...

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Change of sheets
to ivory silk, color of cream
or buttermilk.  Creme
Fraiche to mesh
in golden shine from
open blind.  She's across
the bed to bask, to bask, 
like a cat who knows
and shows the way, a spot
for the poet to store in
winter light, to toast in,
the bed, her host 
in image clear, memory 
dear, her cat C. Chan 
curled by winter window 
for winter sun, its 
chill undone....

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The bottles sat, empty, clean,
timelessly transparent upon the purity
of a chalk walkway;
antiquated memories 
of morning milkmen linger.

The hollow hourglass shapes 
lacking the grains of time,
reflecting, and refracting lemon light
dollops of cream, buttermilk dreams.

Devon Red herds await 
the bottles empty state,
to fill with froth, to zing tin pails,
to drowse to the lilt of a milkmaids’ aire....

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