With Liberty and Empanadas for All
National Poetry Month/Poem a Day
The empanada
Spanish for “wrapped in bread”
Perfect pastry circle
Filled, folded in half
Sealed with water and fork tines
Baked or deep fried
Clamlike
Ready to open
To reveal the perfect flavor pearl
The savory empanada
Beef, onion, garlic
The brave add
Peas, carrots, or celery
Seasoned with comino
Flavor’s high priest
Sprinkle sharp cheese
Beef empanadas promise
All the beauties of the earth
The fruit empanada
Pineapple filled
Sweet, light, pure
Summer vacation in a bite
Pumpkin empanada
Like Thanksgiving pie,
Only three times better
Mango empanada,
A tropical wonder
Our Founding Fathers sadly
Lacked empanadas
If Ben Franklin
Had tasted mango empanada
They’d be in the Constitution
An Eighth Article
With liberty
And empanadas
For all
About the Creator
Chuck Etheridge
Novelist, Teacher, Transplanted West Texan, Reluctant Poet
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Oh man, now I’m hungry!
I have a sonnet for Jamaican patties in mind now. I really appreciated this...