Starch Poems - Poems about Starch

TRIADE 3 The Owl

...A cheetah avoided the trap that night
And the wild cat escaped the shot.
Someone was there for them to learn 
And each of them were taught.


The Bear had chosen to spare the cubs 
For the eas...

The Rue in a Baked Custard Tartlet

...
monks once used egg whites
to starch their habits crisp clean
dumping yellow yolks ~
but a waste not want not pledge
inspired a baked custard tart

in an act of grace
their heavenly recipe
...

I Got In Trouble With The Maid

...
I was seven, barefoot in the hallway,
nose pressed to the brass knob of the guest room—
she’d left the key out,
but I wanted to see through,
the way you want to see the belly of a piano,
strin...

Six-Line Shrug - Modern Art

...
     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 u...

horrible child aint have no friends yet

...polish outside
royce, he hide a boy, called him sunshine

he so starch on the collar
he don't appreciate the cloth
till the potato off it again


stingiest thing ever, hold langstons typewrit...

EAST COAST JAZZ

...Yo. From a whisper, barely a breath, to a front-page roar/  EAST COAST JAZZ  in the fifties, sixties/
 Not just blowing trumpets, but blowing up the jazz scene jazz/
 LPs stacked high vinyl spinnin...

Memos

..."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
nutrie...

Potato

...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...

Lazy Balmy March Day

...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 cou...

Trapped

...
I clean and cook.
I nod my head and I forget your faults.
So, why won’t you let me play?
I’ve been staring out the window all day.

I steam and starch your shirts,
I pretend to sleep when you...

Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: In the Case of Tommy Tucker

...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 thr...

I wish i can

...I wish i can touch the sky.
Put on wing and then fly.

I wish I can starch and rewrite my past.
Undo the things I did not want to do, and go for a recast.

I wish I can say and do things I alwa...

geneva

...During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith...

sloppy birthday cake

...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 o...

I AM POTATO

...

I have a skin, brown tan melolin
Inside of me is water, energy
I have nodes from which buds are formed
I am shapeN like a football, a peanut, a fat lumpy carrot
I may develop sprouting, buds,...

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