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Tenderloin Poems - Poems about Tenderloin

Premium MemberMy Father's Instructions: Cooking Filet Mignon

...Have it
At room 
Temperature
Before cooking.

No marinade.
Just coarse salt
And pepper.

Hot heavy pan
Medium to high heat.
Flip when seared.

Dark brown.
Lower heat.

Lotsa butter,
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Categories: tenderloin, food,
Form: Free verse

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: tenderloin, america, food,
Form: Rhyme



The Tenderloin

...I’ve lived up 
till now
with my thumb
in life’s eye
In reckless
abandon
I shucked
and I jived

No virgin
was safe
no harlot
denied
The wages
of sin
my fortune
— allied

(Dreamsleep:...
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Categories: tenderloin, sin,
Form: Rhyme

Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet - Flowers in their hair

...Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.

Flowers in their hair

In the vibrant city of San Francisco, where beauty and complexity intertwine, a tale...
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Categories: tenderloin, age, beauty, bible, body,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberLife's Untorn Page

...I moved to San Francisco from across the bay in early 1977. At 19 years old, dad got me a two-bedroom house in the San Francisco suburb known as the Ocean District. It was the type of home that adjoi...
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Categories: tenderloin, america, analogy, bereavement, children,
Form: Other



Premium MemberKriegspiel

...Knight to Queen’s Bishop three.
Knight to King’s Bishop six.
A long, thoughtful pause
Then a bloody melee 
With all the usual pawns
Being slaughtered en passant.
The players consent to chop woo...
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Categories: tenderloin, allegory, war,
Form: Blank verse

I Heard the Universal Sound of Aum Pronounced Ohm

...I heard the universal sound of aum (pronounced ohm)...
while being quarantined inside our own invisible bubble

Transcendent meditations
while athwart oblate spheroid
allow, enable, and provide
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Categories: tenderloin, allah, appreciation, birth, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Visit To Contradiction Cafe

...Their reserved table was already in use
and their solid chair backs were so loose
This refined gentleman diner felt quite rough
as his tenderloin steak was extremely tough
His wife’s ...
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Categories: tenderloin, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Tenderized

...As the tenderizing tenderloin rub his meat.
The antibiotics circulated through his veins 
ran down beneath his feet. The taste is off 
but memorizing my mouth, as I swallow his 
flavors I began t...
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Categories: tenderloin, food, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Did Not Play the Game Right

...What is your philosophy on Dali?
I love him. Let’s have a tenderloin.
Actually, I wanted to have a brainy discussion of some sort.
I wanted to use some elongated, snobbish words on you first.

I...
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Categories: tenderloin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberThe Chopsquirrley Restaurant

...Welcome she said with a chopsquirrely grin.
I was entranced, and enthralled, and I quickly ran in.
We have puddings, cakes, omelets, hamburgers too.
What can we bring little ‘ole you?

Immediate...
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Categories: tenderloin, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Repast For June 13th 2020

...Repast for June 13th, 2020...
(and countless provender
scores of years gone by)...
to partake larding refrigerator cupboards
think respectable food vendor.

Courtesy Montgomery County
(Pennsyl...
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Categories: tenderloin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Found My Heart In San Francisco

...I have a great appreciation for the song,
"I left my heart in San Francisco"*, and I have
a great understanding of why one would leave
his/her heart in such a beautiful and most
enchanting city. ...
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Categories: tenderloin, christian, feelings, god, love,
Form: Narrative

Nothing More Frustrating Trying Damndest To Kindle Memory

...(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin)

An effort to recall word, phrase,
musician... indigenous tribe...
most frustrating literary
endeavor to das scribe

aggravating enough to sub...
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Categories: tenderloin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Fry Day Lenten Fish

...Lenten Fry day is a nice day for fish 
Witch was Peter’s holiest wish 
They came from all around 
When they heard that faith full sound 
Into the net they swam without worry or a frown  

Durin...
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Categories: tenderloin, bible, blessing, boat, fish,
Form: Rhyme

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