Short Caking Poems

Ending a hot day
On the back of a lizard
Crusty desert dust...

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In the early morn
I hear the birds sing
Crows caking aloud
Dove's singing their songs 
Blue jays calling mates


This birds complaining 
Then the geese honking
Flying in the early dawn
Or in the early morn
Ponder where  they go...

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she remembers
each morning
caking it on her face

gave her confidence
made her feel stronger
stronger than she really was

like warrior paint
she caked it on
primed to face the day



AP: Honorable Mention 2021, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on February 23, 2019...

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Nature's dust,
Caking softly white
Silver rust,
Upon globes of grapes. 
Protective, 
Wit' her moon powder, of
Autumn's gift:
Her purple sugar.
Aching heart!
Poison'd blue & red,
Nature's blood,
Seal'd in winter's grape.

Hide away here her endless vine,
Her infinite potion of crimson wine....

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Croaking and stroking,
joking and smoking,
he became a king,
he began taking,
while he was busy making,
and raking,
all around began shaking,
the plots to overthrow began cooking,
and around him caking,
he cracked after lot of baking,
and came tumbling down after poin blank hacking....

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Croissant making
Bread baking
Yeast slaking
Crust caking
Bread

Potato
Pumpernickel
Whole wheat
Enriched white
Bread

The smell of it
You will have a fit
Fresh from the oven
Your Grandma’s apron
Your mother’s way of buttering it
There is nothing more heavenly-tasting in the world.
Bread!...

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