Karin's word list gets put to use

Rotary Corn Roast
Photo from Saskatoon Public Library

The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads has invited Karin (aka ManicDDaily) to provide a list of her favorite words to inspire the poets. I used the same set of words for both of the following nonsense poems, occasionally but not often using a word out of order from the original list.

This was a lot of fun. Thanks, Karin!

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we braised the corn

as soon as it was shucked

and dappled it with butter

after we’d thrown all that

hairy yellow stuff into a basin.

tomorrow we have to take inventory

malingerers will have to eat a platter

of cold corn for lunch

twist your wrist and taste the tang

of the vegetable juice

whose flavor sets the pace

with a soupcon of orange juice

in the skillet with the vegetables,

it is delicious but not habit forming

and you can wipe your mouth on your sleeve.

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Oh, shucks, I love you

with my vegetables, braised,

you will be amazed—

especially by the dappled apple scrapple.

and, my dear, oh your hair

is the best anywhere,

as you sit with a basin

and quietly hasten

to braid it — tomorrow

we surely must borrow

from inventory a camperized lorry,

Public domain image

and, leaving malingerers behind

we’ll make veg cacciatore

just like in the story

and served on a platter

whose beauty will flatter,

then we’ll chitterchatter

the crux of the matter,

and old songs will be sang

(please don’t mind the slang)

until your sweet wrist

just demands to be kissed.

then we’ll pick up the pace

and drive off, not in haste.

the vegetable rind,

for our peace of mind,

must be cooked in a skillet

with a touch of millet,

as has been my habit

learned from an old abbot,

and I’ll have, up my sleeve,

a sabbatical leave,

so we won’t have to hurry at all.