Categories:
vermicelli, engagement, fish, food, perspective,
Form: Than-Bauk
If Anything Be
...'Twas
bit
of a joke
for most
of the folk
that had
rallied round
the town
'twas
the first
I heard
a bit absurd
so I
went and
asked around
'twas
up the
hill and
down again...
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Categories:
vermicelli, allusion, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Pronunciation
...Pronouncing gives me stress.
With syllables to chance,
could ‘monchielle’ be French?
I feel I can’t advance,
a poilu in a trench.
Pronouncing gives me stress.
Italians insist
words like ‘mon...
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Categories:
vermicelli, writing,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Those Early Attempts At a Mexican Food
...those early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning...
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Categories:
vermicelli, august, devotion, food, happiness,
Form: Romanticism
Take a Bite of My Pasta If You Dare
...Lasagna, linguine, spaghetti, ravioli, macaroni too
Is there any pappardelle for me and for you?
Here is marinara sauce lavished on angel hair
Sure try to take a bite of my pasta if you dare.
S...
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Categories:
vermicelli, food,
Form: Rhyme
Super Dinner
...Caper with asparagus porridge,
accompanies fake ravioli
with supreme sweet eggplant ...
All sipped with a porto wine
of passion fruit ....
Hawaii vermicelli,
rubbing mussels
bread crumbs
crow...
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Categories:
vermicelli, allusion, aubade, creation, humorous,
Form: Prose
Slimith Shady
...The fable man palms do perspire,
Knees inadequate,
Limbs do joxtapose in overabundance.
Purge grazes over the fable man's vestments.
Mother's Italian vermicelli....
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Categories:
vermicelli, adventure,
Form: Chant Royal
Dinner
...DINNER
Tonight we’ll dine
At a restaurant fine
.To order, we’ll start
With the French words,
Entrée and a la carte.
Hors d oeuvres, escargo,
Brei and dubonnet.
If those mean food,
Why...
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Categories:
vermicelli, culture, food,
Form: Light Verse
Picking a Pasta
...Eeny meeny capellini,
Ziti, elbows, bucatini.
Vermicelli, farfalloni,
Gnocchi, orzo, rigatoni.
Alfabeto and linguine,
Cavatelli, fettuccine.
Penne, pappardelle and gigli,
Stelle, risi, tripo...
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Categories:
vermicelli, food,
Form: Rhyme
Elephant Years
...That’s not my elephant, Miss Ella,
I said when she was two.
Mine has panache, wears couture, eats ganache;
That one is missing a shoe.
That's not my elephant, Miss Ella,
I said when she was th...
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Categories:
vermicelli, childhood, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Aunty Betty
...Aunty Betty ate spaghetti
Every chance she got
For every plateful
Very grateful, she
Would scoff the bloomin’ lot
Aunty Betty ate spaghetti
Several times a day
With every course
A differen...
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Categories:
vermicelli, family, food, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Macaroni and Cheese
...'Tis well-known that any pasta concoction will always me appease,
But I reckon my all-time favorite is plain old macaroni and cheese!
Ah! That simple but hardy fare sets my old taste buds a-twitchi...
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Categories:
vermicelli, foodold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Pasta, Pasta, Everywhere
...Oh, vermicelli, rigatoni!
Lost on a sea of minestrone.
The sea beneath my feet,
And nothing else to eat,
I live on cheese and macaroni....
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Categories:
vermicelli, food, children, funny, sea,
Form: Limerick