Szechuan Poems


Food Missed

...The poetry of the COVID era (read to the end)

Thai pineapple rice. Wonton and Yaki Soba
Tortufo ice cream. Scallopini veal, halva and also soda
Tamago, octopus and yellowtail. Ribs, pasta fagiol...
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Categories: szechuan, america, food,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberKung Pao Chicken

...Kung Pao chicken over rice
a spicy delight
tantalizing my taste buds
Szechuan pepper
lighting a fire
on my tongue
ouch...
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Categories: szechuan, food,
Form: Epulaeryu


Afternoon Tea At the Szechuan Palace

...Assuaging our thirst drives us in from the street,
shoppping fatigued; a welcome retreat
as a menu of delights rewards us with tea,
Black Yunnan for you and Silver Tips for me. 

Smooth liquid s...
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Categories: szechuan, drink, sensual,
Form: Quatrain

Emotional Rain

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Whenever a ginseng breeze blows,
Tokyo tears fall in my heart — 
I have mountain village longings for distant her
My lonely home sits below sea-level blue,
my sabishi jia is sinking be...
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Categories: szechuan, feelings, lost love, rain,
Form: Free verse

April's Babbling Foolishness

...(Created using the bAbBlE sentence generator, various text excerpts, and a minuscule bit of human editing.) 

And she smells good without keeping all ...

Beef, sitting lonely on that lies floati...
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Categories: szechuan, art, computer, crazy, food,
Form: Prose


Plum Pudding

...When you go out to eat 
what do you like to taste?
Polish, Italian, German, Greek, and American
or fast foods made in haste?

I get into Chinese food
from Canton Noodles to Szechuan Steak.
Dim...
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Categories: szechuan, business, food, placesfood,
Form: Quatrain
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