Unferth Stew
Written by Gail DeBole
on July 21, 2024
(Recipe from Grendel’s recipe book)
Note: Sequel to Grendel’s Supper (also posted on PoetrySoup)
Ingredients
• Fresh Unferth meat (taken from the bones of old man Unferth)
• Other human meat/parts
• Marsh water
Directions
1. Outside at night, build a fire under the eating pot.
2. Throw Unferth meat into the pot.
3. Throw other human parts
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Categories:
stew, adventure, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A nasty stew
Anger roars like a beast, all around
The world cracks in crevices to fall into
Hatred brews, stirring like a nasty stew
Division rules across hundreds of miles
We are in trouble, there is no denying that!
Hold onto your values, let no brainwashing occur!
I watch what is happening and only tears stir
Heidi Sands
4/30/24
(C)opyright
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Categories:
stew, america, angst, conflict, sad,
Form: Free verse
Chef Rabbits Special Stew
Chef rabbit’s specialty was lovely, marvelous cabbage-carrot stew.
One year there was a drought, and he did not know what to do.
No cabbage anywhere around, okay, maybe he could scrounge up two.
He substituted lettuce, and it was tastier, on a scale, twenty-two.
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Categories:
stew, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
chef rabbits special stew
Chef rabbit’s specialty was lovely, marvelous cabbage-carrot stew.
One year there was a drought, and he did not know what to do.
No cabbage anywhere around, okay, maybe he could scrounge up two.
He substituted lettuce, and it was tastier, on a scale, twenty-two.
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Categories:
stew, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Categories:
stew, color,
Form: Free verse
Hot Stew
When I was a young guy
With my head stuck in the sky
For everything a why
Fought with my pen
Since I can't remember when
Mother says I was a born writer
But turned out I was a fighter
Always pulling an all nighter
Long days
Maybe my evil ways
Kept me always on the go
I was not someone you got to
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Categories:
stew, angst, deep, home,
Form: Rhyme
An Omelette Made For Two
I had a tasty cock-a-doodle stew
Now I crow at dawn as cockerels do
I pulled a sweet hen
And now and again
We dine on an omelette made for two.
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Categories:
stew, bird, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Noisemaker Stew
My favorite butcher knew just what to do
When he sold me farm fresh noise makers for stew
Like the mooer and quacker
With the oinker and clucker
And those parts that make the cock-a-doodle-do
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Categories:
stew, animal, fun,
Form: Limerick
Roberta Wanted the Old Stew Back
Roberta had no place to turn
She felt she was boxed into a corner
Her spells would not work against him
He had too much power over her
Let him go! Richie her familiar said
He has never been anything but trouble
Her internal voice said the same thing
But her heart wanted him
She liked everything about Stew
The old Stew
The Stew that
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Categories:
stew, relationship,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Delicious Emotional Stew
I genuinely like myself for most of the things I do
And it brings me joyous pleasure when it pleases you
When we do things for each other it seems to work just fine
And trouble will come calling when I think too much is mine
We’re in this life for sharing, to that there is no doubt
Wisdom, inspiration,
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Categories:
stew, inspirational love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Frog Stew
My frog calmly has his orange pekoe tea said Stew.
Remainder of the pot is sitting right next to him too.
Will he share with me? No. But he might share with you.
He is pouting today because I hid his hat and his shoe.
Sitting beside a tiny brook, that makes his life complete
He eats tidily,
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Categories:
stew, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Always On a Mission Stew
When Stew was on a mission there was no stopping him.
Believe me, he would intensely do what he was going to do.
He collected for the Door of Faith mission with zeal and vim.
He released a hundred homing pigeons, and each one flew.
He was like a bullet train when he got an idea in
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Categories:
stew, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Lamb Stew
The poor animal's all gender-confused
Its friends say it is not at all amused
Should it go meh-meh
Or perhaps baa-baa
At night, of counting sheep it is accused!
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Categories:
stew, animal, confusion, humor, identity,
Form: Limerick
Waiting For Opossum Stew
The Las Vegas Opossum Stew Ranch was an instant hit.
“You have to try it! It is super! It makes you feel fit!”
I ran to have a bowl, super excited to imbibe in the stuff.
The line was longer every day, people could not get enough
I spent hours in line, where people wanted to chat.
At last I
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Categories:
stew, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Range Stew
All lined up
In a single c rank
Twenty two cans of beer fit
Inside the barrel of a tank,
And driving a tank
Is an exhilarating thrill?
But at times you can’t?
Avoid some road kill.
Cookie comes behind
And what does he do?
Guts and chops and slices?
For a nice Range Stew.
When you’re tired and hungry
And really needing to eat
You gobble down the
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Categories:
stew, drink, food, humorous, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
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