Short Starch Poems

freeloading riders
robber barons at the till
grand omnibus bill...

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God Saw Soldiers

God saw soldiers starting to march,
In uniforms that contained starch;...

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am smart
cloths or starch
i love to march
for whats right
black or white
my love is free
be glad
TO HAVE ME...

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Yes indeed!  I blocked yo azz
Ain't gonna hear from you no mo!  
Keep yo appendix to yo self
Go own now and starch ya show!...

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Though some beware the Ides of March
My mum adds some extra starch
My shirt is like steel
My trousers won't kneel
With the zip as stuck as a larch....

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Saint Patrick feared the Ides of March
So Jesus filled his robes with starch
Saint Patrick said,
"I must be dead!
This coffin feels like sold larch!"...

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The rich surely starch t-rump's collar
So now they're entitled to holler
"A third world domain 
Is what you shall maintain 
While we retain all of each dollar"...

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Packed with starch, protein
Provided for many
People called 'earth apple'
Placed at gold value once
Potassium rich veg
Peruvian produce
Peel, slice, fry and enjoy...

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Prince Harry and wife's new son is named Arch
He was born in May instead of in March
   He looks kind of cute
   In his new white suit
I guess Meghan went easy on the starch...

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the first snowfall creaks 
under my feet like a starch - 
jelly november

07.11.2019
A Late Fall Or Early Winter Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Syllables Per Line:	5 7 5...

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                                          Once sure now so lost
                                       Starch and blood we crave
                                          Quickly to the grave...

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The birthday cake melted into a sloppy pile
Making the old lady give up a rare toothless smile
She had told the baker to add starch which he would not do
Now the sloppy birthday cake was a river of goo...

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     Petrified zombies march
       past displays of potato starch

     Onlookers stop to gape
       at what’s depicted on their capes  

     The clue connecting all this 
       floats upside down in the abyss 
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failure to thrive

a wee infant thin and silent,
rested placidly in a cot
his skin a pallid shade of blue;
his short stark life almost through.
alone here in this starch white room 
hold him. love him and he will bloom....

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Harsh Walk Through Marsh

While I was walking through a marsh,
End of poem I read  had been harsh;
Was hesitating;
Poem devastating;
Cried on hankerchief that had starch.

Jim Horn

Trump wants to drain swamp and 
marsh as well....

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"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." - James Beard 

Spice-sweet-sour-salt-starch-blended 
dumplings, like dim sum... 
Fish, meat, or greeneries filled
enzyme-fiber-mixed
nutrient cuisines... 
They thrill my
tongue...
...

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Why did little Tommy Tucker
Have to sing for his supper?
Did he stammer and stutter
To merit just bread and butter?
And what miscreant oaf
Would then give him a loaf
But nary a knife to cut through it?
Didn't Tom have enough strife
In his life with no wife,
Or did fat spread on starch
Help him chew it?
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open door; icewall
                crusted as a rabid eye
                all the change of skin in frost
                a bedouin of snow

consider the end ;
                white room; stiff starch
                the soft slide of slippers
                along linoleum

winter`s partner; a slower cold...

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he keeps a picture
of his dead wife
in the top pocket
of the starch white
prison shirt he wears.

her parents,
ever crying,
often sit
on wooden pews
in the small town's church;
the smell of
candle wax 
surrounding them.

as for he,
he'll keep 
that snapshot
in that shirt
for another 
sixteen years....

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Indian Basmati:
no ordinary rice
or Gundry’s being nice,
I don’t know which.

Lectins can be boiled out,
Gundry is insistent
starch becomes resistant,
chilled overnight.

I have to say it was
not very fluffy though:
a bit like risotto;
turned out alright.

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An Abhanga, an Indian form, 6x-6a-6a-4x...

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Air conditioner is loud and steady
Wind chimes prove the wind is ready
Balmy spring day bringing us March
Limber and lithe, not a bit of starch

Dogs stare at me on this lazy day
Loving the country in an appreciative way
Not a single sound, no tweet, chirp or peep
The kind of day I could do a lot of serious sleep...

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The first two months we tromp and plod
Or trudge or slog or shuffle
While bundled up, accompanied
By cough or sneeze or snuffle.

But now the calendar has turned
And so our pace increases.
Think Sousa and start moving with
Your ear turned towards his pieces.

In other words, drop all that starch:
Today begins the month of MARCH!...

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Jack always carried his candlestick,
ready to show off his jumping trick.
His speed and strength were better than luck
and he wanted more bang for his buck.

Cavendish McDare known as Jack-be-quick,
thought he was faster than dynamite wick.
Right before Jack was blown to smithereens,
his mother washed too much starch with his jeans....

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As I said- L.I. was home to me up until about a year ago, when I made the 
(oopps) mistake of moving upstate, near Poughkeepsie (Wappinger Falls, which 
I call Foppinger Walls).... It is soooo boring!!  No wonder I'm posting poetry 20 
hours a day.....  By the way, I'd never heard of Long Island Iced Tea till I went to 
Arizona a few years ago.  Talk about puttin' starch in your socks!!  regards  Tom...

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Military Will March

Always into victory military will march;
Nice and neat in a uniform with starch;
They were proud,
Before big crowd;
Was done triumphantly under an arch.

Can you imagine Arche de Trump.
Because Trump was victorious he
thinks that he deserves a parade.
Parades are to honor a war victory,
having been part of our history.
Trump defies the true meaning of
a parade.

Jim Horn...

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