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Thread: 30 Cold Potatoes

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    Mike Lane is offline Fun and felicitous PFFA patron
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    Love the thread title.
    Good to read you again.

    First poem is damn nice!!! I love the overall playfulness and the word play.

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    Featherless Biped is offline Ray to rhyme with bay; not Rae to rhyme with bae
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    Delicious potato! (I'm always amazed, the delicious things people make with leftovers and a half-empty pantry.) The opening gambit reminds me of this silly poem that I loved as a kid, about an elephone and a telephant.

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    Hello bop,

    This one made me smile. I especially liked "a mish-mash / of splintered syllables; peeled, chopped / chipped and crushed into croquettes / of incoherent words" as a description of trying to write poetry to a deadline and in the absence of inspiration. "bitter vinaigrette" makes for a great ending.

    Nice start. I look forward to reading more.

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    Thank you for the smile, wordplay and hunger pangs

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    croquettes
    of incoherent words.


    This sounds like MY poem-things!!!

    Lovely start for the month - one down and 29 more to go No problem, right?!

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    Because, if the poet isn’t careful, meaning has a way of too insistently shouldering its way in, so that we readers then have the meaning but miss the experience.
    Christopher Ricks, Introduction to Austin Clarke’s Collected Poems

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    love the crisp words in #1, and the clever way you combine writing a poem with cooking a potato. this made me smile. thanks for that!

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    Mike - thanks, I'm pleased you liked it
    Featherless Biped - I loved the 'silly poem' - it's discombubulatingly good.
    Matt - glad it worked. - I'm sure you'll transcend your name in NaPo!
    anenome - thanks, it made me hungry too!
    Annie - your poem things are trifles that should be eaten and resolved
    Cookie - I can't keep up the potato theme, but I'm glad this one
    made you smile.
    Thanks for all the fluff, especially as I'm so bad at giving it back.
    bop
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    Hot Potato

    Oh Desiree! I desire you,
    your subtle nutty taste;
    I’m fed up with French fries
    and what they’re doing to my waist.

    Oh Desiree! I’m desirous
    of your firm unblemished skin.
    I set the oven to gas mark five
    then gently pop you in.

    Oh Desiree! It’s time now,
    come to my table please,
    I’ll have you with a glass of wine
    and some finely grated cheese.

    Oh Desiree! I devoured you,
    ate your soft and creamy flesh,
    but the cheese was far too much,
    I should have had crème fraiche.

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    I'm filled with admiration, and anticipation, at the thought of 30 poems about potatoes. What a great idea!
    I could nudge a hint for pink fir apples, chip sandwiches, bubble and squeak, gratin dauphinois. My love affair
    with the spud knows no bounds.
    Indeed, creme fraiche would have been better.

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    Hi Bop, what a fun theme! We all know how much one can do with potatoes, so I'm sure the variety of poems will be endless. These two are a strong start! Great sounds that make one's mouth work when reading aloud!

    Thanks for the fun!
    Vicky
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    Great start, wow. I love the fiery voice in both poems. Lovely paced pieces. So fun too!

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    Just like I asked for rice+pasta for dinner as a kid...You make me want baked potatoes AND potato salad for dinner!

    Goodbye waistline, hello munchies.

    Thanks
    :P

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    The versatility of the potato knows no bounds, loved the reverent tone afforded to Hot Potato

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    One potato, two potato...the colors and tastes, desires and dishes are full of possibilities (humor, sustenance, history). Spud it up, don't hold the butter!

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    Do I get even fatter for every potato poem I read? I like both of the openers. They're refreshingly light on the brain, (unlike the miserable fayre I'm glurping far), if not the waist.
    Resigned

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