Short Miso Poems

Home-made teriyaki sauce (soy)
a yakitori (chicken thigh)
a mackerek in miso
a ponzu salad
with konbu seaweed
schichimi (7 spices dip)
Dip !...

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Why do I dwell among love makers and evil doers?
What about the human condition do men lie and cheat?
Is love just chocolate, Valentine's Day cards, and red roses?...

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Miso deh vo, ah  vah-say chi, poso ghum.
Re-cho say bah chi no.
Ah van de ah go!
Oh, oh,
Dew chi lay um bah
Ah say de be cum buh
Chorest uh brah 
See ah go
Say Costa tell ah beam...

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what no utensils
we've hands ~ soup kitchen water
main in-gr[id-i-ot]
French Consommé soup
beef stock veal broth ~ no substance
comes with twelve-course meal
Miso water soup
nine nine point nine ~ still nothing
we've extra chopsticks
Jamaican Mannish
Water goat soup ~ keyword big
voluminously...

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Love tastes like warm miso soup
After going hungry all day

Love feels like the vibrations in your chest
When a base drum booms too close

Love sounds like flute vibrato
Inside a church sanctuary

Love looks like a pale yellow drop of food coloring
On wet watercolor paper

Love smells like when you come up from underwater
In a small, shallow lake with grassy banks...

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a first sip of miso soup
exotic and warm
forging a downward path
flowing like a life force
transporting me
as I close my eyes
to a timeless moment
sharing with countless kin
through the ages
young and old
some in the prime of life
some near their final breath
the sum of their days
deep in their heart



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on March 6, 2019 for STANDARD CONTEST 190 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST

Originally posted on October 11, 2018...

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