Short Dumplings Poems

A mushroom ravioli
with cabbage dumplings
in cauliflower puree
blackberry crumble
carrot cake
Trim!...

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A sweet and sour plum relish
Buttered pear salad
A beetroot and orange soup
Baked apple cheecake
Apricot dumplings
Rhubarb fool
Squosh !...

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Diddle, diddle dumpling, my son John.
Struggles to slide his trousers on;
seems causation hasn’t dawned.
Put down the dumplings, my son John....

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pots
pans
apple sauce
chicken and dumplings
hot stove
cooking all night long
clear my mind 
clear my thoughts
hot kitchen
all night long...

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Stew that chicken keep broth hot
Add some chopped onions
Pepper, garlic, thyme and salt
Dumplings taste so fine
The dish is ready
Won’t you come --
Dine!...

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COMFORT FOOD

savor chicken and dumplings,
paprikash gravy.
paired with cucumber, dill, white
vinegar and milk —
evaporated.
Hungary’s
bliss!

7/11/2018...

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Brown sugar and butter mixed,
Pour in hot water,
Add batter to this syrup.
Flour, baking powder.
Bakes to gooey sweet
Caramel
Love!



Written July 28, 2011

For Contest- Low Country Boil 
Sponsor Sara Kendrick...

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SOUTHERN COMFORT

Southern noob...first time cutting biscuit strips.
Hopeful blessing from God’s ears to their lips.
First pot is a gift...
their sweet souls to lift.
Y’all chicken and dumplings like sweet tea sips.

6/10/2018...

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Rooster, king of the barnyard, strutt your stuff
Stretch your flexible neck enjoy today
That neck will be great in dumplings, stew soon
Flop those flap away wings like you can fly
See if they carry the rooster away
Up into the safety of the blue sky
Mmmm revenge taste delicious served hot...

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Mrs Claus made a viagra eggnog 
To energise ol’ Santa Claus Yule log
His frozen south pole recovered large-scale
Wagging frisky as a puppy dogs tail.

Mrs Claus dumplings hubby does adore
Her stew warms up her Santa’s inner core
Gravy so thick that it sticks to their lips 
Leading to bliss of a lingering kiss....

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Chubby cheeks,
with red dumplings,
a chin having,
a deep adorable sink,
with wide blue eyes,
having a naughty twink,
his golden locks,
were soft,
and plenty,
his baby fragrance,
I used to inhale deep,
as in my lap,
he used to sleep,
its only when,
he stirred,
burped,
and crapped,
that his innocent helpless,
beauty,
in fact seeped....

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Elephant dumplings in my soup.
They are tasty and delicious.
Warm and fleshy to boot!
Come on, don’t crowd.  

Elephant dumplings  get them here and now!
They are frankly a big fat wow!
Not easy to beat. 
Believe me, it’s a rare treat!

Elephant dumplings forever great.
Come for supper but don’t be late
For elephant dumplings you must taste.
There will be very little to throw or waste....

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Old red rooster strutting his proud stuff
He crows and crows waking people up
He's king of the yard and hen house too
Don't provoke him or he'll use his spurs on you

He wasn't aware that the child was delicate as lace
When he attacked her flying in her face
This cruel act surely sealed his fate
This is the reason that he was dumplings on the plate

Entry into Brian's latest contest
July 19, 2011..
This was written in 2008...

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Everybody helped build the communal treehouse
Badger, fox, bunny, chipmunk, squirrel, owl and mouse.
In the end we served molasses, honey and jam on bread.
Can I join you up there? Asked a hen named Little Red.

We knew she was picked on by her lazy roommates.
So we said “why not” and she brought along some crates.
We now had pecans, dumplings, tootsie rolls and fresh sirloin.
We were certainly glad now that we had allowed her to join....

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People have formed in clumps
like little Chinese dumplings
under the few trees,
where the grass is thick and damp.

In the center of the park
a group of twenty-somethings 
throw a frisbee;
their athletic legs 
stutter and flutter and step.

Shirtless and bikinied,
their sweat looks like condensation
on a glass of ice water:
the beads mysteriously leaking from the skin.

That’s the body’s way of telling them
it’s too hot to run....

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Homemade Dumplings


Now watch this she would say my mother taught me this
And her mother taught her you might not get another chance
Everythings in the book I did change the pallbearers for you
Recently made it easier for you thanks mom that’s really kind
Of you was it 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 mom? Flour to eggs I gotta keep it
Simple in my head you know I gotta look at that book one day
Where did you say you kept it again?




04.03.10  11:30pm...

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often
various punctuation,
leave their strange hats
in the small
humbleness 
of my cloak room.

usually i have
a small
folding table 
in the kitchen 
set up for thirteen.

they each sit
& drink 
from the 
cuppletts of sound.

their plates
are heaped  with
the dumplings of symbols.

punctuation
always waits for
the final image
to come hot
from the oven.

Often the punctuation
coughs & complains 
that the turkey
is too dry....

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As a child I would place my closed eyes
in them
while she hummed Gaelic melodies.

Her smock, it was brown
like a butchers apron
but without a speck of blood,
just daubs of fruit dumplings
and the savor of elderberry flowers.

Grandmother had large hands
working hands,
when they closed
it was as if her story book
had closed
at the end of every day,

and that is how she goes away
always very quietly
at the end of every day.
© 2 days ago...

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Good morning gorgeous, how’s you today.
Nipped out for a bite yesterday which reminded me
Why I fancy the pants off you.
The starter was light just a kiss and cuddle.
Main course was a lovely rump, cheeky, served rare
Sweet, you are my delicious delight, so warm, sticky and gooey such a lovely treat.
Now if your heart isn’t the way to finding my love
Then your dumplings and muffin will fill me up with lust.
After all isn’t the way to a man’s heart through is stomach....

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Winter Solstice Festival
Winter Solstice features the longest night and shortest day;
The Yin reaches its pinnacle while the Yang starts to play.
The festival was once celebrated as the start of a new year;
And now it’s the cultural legacy we all cheer.
The exchange between cold and warmth is preset by Nature;
Who can change the course of rise and fall in his favor?
Sweet dumplings and Jiaozi separate the north from the south;
Dare I ask when you can ride the moon back to our house?...

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