Food Soulmate Poems

I never wanted to be
Those people single at 30.
I feared resemblance
of the tv shows and movies.

I dreamed of being
One of the lucky ones. 

Meet in...

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Being Veggie 

Here I am.
From top to toe
A meat-free human
Don't ya know 

People asked me
Why the shoes?
I do not eat them.
I'd often muse.. 

But now...

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Purple and Gold
White, and Silver
The plates are fancy
People are dancing
The food is amazing
People are singing
The doves fly over
The rain pours
People take cover.

Overwehelmed in gifts
A huge...

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As a youth I would follow the fire deep in my soul,             ...

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As the hourglass grains of our life do fall
A million more days like the last your only request
For you i'd spend those days in the...

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I Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I have labored sore / and suffered death, 
so now I...

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"Invigoration by infatuation"

She found me at my lowest point!
I was down and out had no mattress on the floor, no food. It was begging and...

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Pondering up on hidden thoughts I relax in the balcony,
recollecting those crafted priceless moments 
whence you had cast a spell~was immersed in severe infatuation.
Always lending...

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life is a dream  of chocolate covered trees
makes me so hungry to eat the trees
dark brown chocolate covered trees
as I eat them I hear...

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delicious ...
our mouths are chaos
a swirl of wildness and taste
lips, tongues, breaths mix and moan
passions parched - thirsts unquenchable
we are no longer two
emotions, bodies
kiss ...

so...

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"ASSESMENT ON JUNE 6, 2019."


I called the starfish 
on her birthday 
but I was ignored. 
I texted her 
good morning and 
I got a reply:...

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"Hurry!"
"Hurry, you've gotta see this!"
She yelled at me from a hundred yards down the beach ...
So I ran, barefooted, as fast as I could to...

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Skeleton quay - abridged for Give Me Goosebumps contest



When the sniper fired his rifle and his faithful canine fell
A second bullet found his heart and...

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"Why you sitting out here Dele?",
She squeaked.
"You gonna be those tiny bitters' food!",
She exclaimed.
If there ever was more to Ollie,
It'd be more squeaks and exclaims.
I...

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please my 'self'
this is the only pen that you listen to
the only communication that you will answer to
to all questions that will be asked to
answer...

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