Short Rhubarb Poems

the noble rhubarb
breathtaking Himalayas
rare awesome flower...

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Man
Wild rhubarb is way too good for ya





summer 2016...

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pink and green rhubarb
found renegade and leafy
best pie ever baked...

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Tart
fruit,
hidden
close within
a vegetable-
Cicely will make it sweeter....

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tonight’s menu
warm rhubarb pie
no dinner bell




posted on June 10, 2018...

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Buttery asparagus
beef served on the bone
skate with caper mayonnaise
mutton chop curry
rhubarb and custard
From days gone
By !...

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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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A John Dory with rhubarb
Sea trout with beetroot
Fresh salmon with sorrel sauce
Mackerel munchies
Scallop salad cream
Cod and chips
Dip !...

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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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Some may think it’s so bitter
Quite the contrary
As pie, it’s the tastiest
Treat, like no other
My stomach then smiles
For rhubarb
Pie!...

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Risotto with shrimp and peas
Grilled romaine with pears
Lemon rolls with raspberry jam
Crisp Sauvignon Blanc
Strawberry –Rhubarb Pie
A warm breeze
Friends!...

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Daddy potato head was using his hoe in a wicked way
Chopping up parsley and rhubarb, throwing it past Monday
Tuesday did not like it, it is shriveled and dried up he said.
Daddy Potato head did not realize he was making them dead....

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Daddy potato head was using his hoe in a wicked way
Chopping up parsley and rhubarb, throwing it past Monday
Tuesday did not like it, it is shriveled and dried up he said.
Daddy Potato head did not realize he was making them dead....

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Lazy hazy hot summer day 
Dewdrops on flowers glistening in the sun
Blowing white wisps of dandelion seeds
Dipping tart rhubarb in bowls of white sugar
Swinging side by side on squeaky swings
Smiling, laughing 
Best friends 
Forever...

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Kermes crushed to yield the dye;
A warming colour of pinkish hue
But a finer harvest can be made
To delight the eyes and taste buds too

Fine in trifles, crumbles and tarts
Shared after summer walks
Or in the depth of winters cold
We'll devour our crimson stalks...

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hemlock
a shock

foxglove
no love

orchid
morbid

wolf’s bane
insane

larkspur
bad blur

glory
gory

sumac
step back

laurel
quarrel

bloodroot
a brute

jimson
no fun

bella
donna

monkshood
not good

rhubarb
grim garb

flower
power...

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The lemon drop child
looked at the world
through sherbet fountain eyes.
Her sour cherry lips
spouting black jack words,
whilst her mind was an
aniseed twist.

Her rhubarb and custard complexion
and curly wurly 
liquorice hair
Belied her treacle toffee soul
No love heart there....

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Grandma was the best at baking pies. 
That was a fact nobody denies. 
Apple, rhubarb, sweet potato, cherry, 
pumpkin, pecan, and don't forget blueberry. 
In the kitchen, grandma could be found. 
Her fresh-baked pies were the best around.

inspired by another member's poem...

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The child has drawn a stick-figure. 
Primitive, it lacks a pulse. A child 
sees a hero beyond nerve and sinew, 
heart red as rhubarb. In buckskin 
fringes, gazing into a pool 
just struck by lightning. 
Three more strokes of crayon
create a stallion at full gallop, 
its hooves touching nothing but air....

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“In a rundown, the runner is in a pickle that could become a rhubarb.” ~ by poet

Rundown.
He's trapped between
bases being pursued
by the fielders who glibly smile
because they know they have the advantage,
to perhaps overtake and tag
the beleaguered runner,
to foil the run.
Rundown.
...

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Strawberry shortcake 
Whipped cream on a biscuit 
Best dessert ever 

German chocolate cake 
With the moistest coconut 
Best dessert ever 

Hot fudge sundae 
With butter pecan ice cream 
Best dessert ever 

Hot sweet rhubarb pie 
Ala mode via ice cream 
Best dessert ever 

Peanut butter cake
with cinnamon icing
Best dessert ever...

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flamingos and sunsets
cherries and maple leaves
almond blossoms in sunshine
lipstick of high fashion
plummy plum tree blossoms
tulips and juicy watermelon
a flashy sports car at dawn
twilight pearls and rubies
bleeding hearts among roses
pomegranate and grapefruit
dragon fruit and rhubarb
apples and creamy frosting
butterflies and raspberries...

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feed me butter
give me pie
gaining weight?
I wonder why

Siting in a recliner
for one hour, now two
kicking off my instincts
Maybe three will do

Sitting sedentary
barely moving at all
bring me chocolate cake
and don’t make the piece that small!

Gaining weight my pretty?
Gee I wonder why.
I want another piece of rhubarb.
Don’t be so chintzy with that pie!...

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Oh for a taste of rhubarb pie!
Home picked, home baked--
Mouth watering, I don’t lie.

A tart and sweet delicious delight;
Tingles, mingles with the tongue.
Mom always cooked it just right!

Some might let theirs go to waste,
But I’ll eat their piece without delay,
I just love that capricious taste!



Note* I haven’t had a piece of Rhubarb pie
since my dear mom died in ‘94...

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I put my shoes on back to front
to step into the past,
sent my watch by express mail
to make the time go fast.
Wrote 'atom' down as 'mtao'
just to generate unclear fusion,
told my friends I wasn't there
but an optical illusion.
Put my head on upside down
for a thicker head of hair and no beard,
when you can't think of topics for a piece of verse, then
what the hell- 
do weird....

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