Starchy Poems - Poems about Starchy

My Cooking Adventure

...
Today I declared war
on my own laziness—
no more delivery apps,
no more surrender.

I would conquer pasta.

First victory:
water bubbling on the stove.
Time to add salt—
but my hand betra...

Pate A Choux De la pointe

...Using a fruit and veggie jucier
juice 
1 small onion
2 clove of garlic
3 medium cucumber
1/2 cup of apple
1/2 lemon
1 Tablesoon of fresh rosemary
measure 1 cup
add to
1 cup of milk
makes 2...

Potato Skin Potion

...

Scraped, friendly freckled face falls to benchtop
Starchy spud plays poker, blank slate envelope 
Lost costume spotted cape, super elixir escapade
Layers on shiny raised scars, recovery escala...

Stock Market Drivel

...Torrid sunshine blisters reign on pavement,
that colour coded coffee stain slipway,
bearer of insole-laden footwear,
open source channel for glib hot air calculus  from starchy social climber, sto...

Sugar

...I see it in cubes cast
And chiefly featuring in breakfast;
In Bread and cake harboured
And in plantains and cereals honoured…

Also in my tea that would gullets pass through,
Its presence in oa...

Canticles

...guileless in my green days i climbed to the tip of my toes
to hear a tree and the wind
clap a rat-a-tat code outside my casement window

i was a follower then of minuscule choirs
small voices no...

Sunday Childhood Memories

...Sunday was patent leather shoes, white anklets with lace
Starchy petticoats, flouncy lavender dresses with huge bows in the back.
Sunday was Sunday School, where everyone in the church knew us.
Si...

Hospital Visitor

...She whispered in my ear of neon lights, 
my mother,celebrated actress,
waning star in sick bay,
zany bird nest hairstyle on display,
lock and tress erect,
skin-fold ripple eggshell pallor,
moth...

Archie Bunker

...There once was a man named Archie
Definitely not so starchy
Ridicule his best gift
Supremacy his lift
An upper hand controlled Archie

Bunker was his family name
Superiority his ga...

The Unfinished Symphony

...The record plays -
            sounds of love; words that touch the heart.
I reach for you with all my being 
and, finding I still cannot touch you
I sit down to cover paper with my song to you.
...

The Leaving

...Smooth,
yet flawed.
Tiny tears upon a mesmerizing palette;
like miniature beads
sewn together by an experienced hand
caressing its surface
the perfection unreal.

Yet time goes on
ag...

Everything Must Be Filled

...Everything Must be Filled
                                Cavalaire-sur-Mer, June 1945

We lay on the rough sandy oval rug,
A sign outside our window with an electric arrow
Pointed through the w...

The Couch

...The couch
I lay here on the couch
Springs pierce my spine
My neck bent
An unnatural angle

My cold feet try to find warmth
In the crevices 
There are only crumbs and coins
Coins and crumbs
...

Granary of Life

...Those breasts are a granary of life
they are silos for the thin times
they are feeding gourds for the fragile
there are vitamins in them
there are proteins in them
there are starchy foods in the...

Large Lunch

...Tips slide on smeared plastic
A decision is mulled 
With a mantra of “Ah”
A muscle curls on lips

A ritual is completed
A summoning has been made
A Wizard scribes a spell
And stabs a wand int...

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