The Czar’s Black Beauty
Butter crinkled platform
A million waterdrop prisms
Beckon bees with nuggets
Pouches burst with pollen
Aerial maneuvers skim grass
Dandelions faces open wonder
Bumble imminent. Then….
Airpuffs lift, gentle grandmothers
She grows from an idea and a miracle
Until one day she’s plucked, ripe, tuned
To a summer’s song – sizzling
In onions, butter, and garlic
Rolling and tumbling with tomatoes
Over a bed of spinach linguini
Golden, tender, and true she offers
Her merried complementing flavor
Sarah is today’s host of dVerse. Sarah says:
So, tonight, I want you to plant in my poetry patch. Take a look at these vegetable names, choose a few, toss them in the rich soil of your imagination, and see what comes up.
Black Beauty
Trail of Tears
Lazy housewife
Princess
Purple queen
Jacob’s cattle
The Czar
Wizard
Golden acre
Dazzling blue
Purple sword
Jack Ice
Reine des Glaces
Blue fire
Aurora
Tender and true
Tao Talk 
I like zucchini bread.
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I do too! I make it every year.
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This is great tribute to zucchini.
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Thank you, Sadje :)
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A pleasure.
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Tell you what, I’m stopping and headed to the kitchen to get something to eat. Your piece overcame me, reduced me to my baser instincts; good job.
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LOL I like the sounds of that, Glenn :)
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Awesome! Loved it! xoxo
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Thanks, Carol Anne!
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Oh, delicious. I love the image of the plant growing, and then the cooking. Sizzling!
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Thank you, Sarah.
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I like the idea of growing from an idea and a miracle.
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:) Thank you, Frank.
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I like where you went with it AND that you stayed within the garden! :)
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Thank you, Na’ama :)
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:)
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This was simmering with delightful flavor. You cooked up some wonderful poetry.
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Thank you, Truedessa!
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I am hungry. You got me with this one, luv the roll and tumble among the chopped tomatoes
Happy Tuesday
Much💙love
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:) Glad you found it appetizing.
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Now I’m hungry! Delicious! (and I see I’m not alone) (k)
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I can’t wait to see zucchini growing this summer <3
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yum you have made me hungry … sounds and looks delicious!
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Thanks, Kate!
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my pleasure Lisa!
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I love this delicious description of a zucchini plant, Lisa, especially the mouth-watering lines:
‘…she’s plucked, ripe, tuned
To a summer’s song – sizzling
In onions, butter, and garlic
Rolling and tumbling with tomatoes’.
I’ve just had breakfast and I’m longing for dinner!
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:) Glad you enjoyed it, Kim.
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A beautiful mixture of all the summery things!!
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Thanks, Vandana!
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This is truly spectacular Lisa!
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Why thank you, Linda :)
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This sounds so wonderful and delicious… I would use zucchini in ratatouille
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YUM!
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I can honestly say I’ve never once before seen such a fine poetic tribute to zucchini~nice alliteration. It’s so easy to forget that otherwise droll mundane plants and foodstuffs can take on quite a fine literary appearance
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Thank you, Larry!
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kaykuala
The second stanza is so yummy. You did very well Jade, to suggest a dish while many others stopped at the planting part.
Hank
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Thank you, Hank.
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I will never look at a zucchini the same again <3
SO lovely!
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Thanks, Lael!
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This really sizzles and pops throughout. More going on here than first thought!
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I’m glad you see it. Thank you, Colleen :)
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Love it! Despite the stereotype, I’ve never managed to have too much zucchini in my garden!
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What stereotype?? That black is beautiful? The name of a horse? The name of the variety of zucchini is Black Beauty. No stereotype was intended here… Thank you for reading and commenting, from one zucchini lover to another :)
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