Best Breadfruit Poems
A Mutiny On the Bounty
...It was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean air on the Bounty blew unkind
It was the troubled wind of mutiny
My......
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Categories:
breadfruit, words, me, men, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Jamaica At 60
...There is no place like home
I represent the black, green and gold.
Out of many, we are one people, driven to succeed
Global excellence is our only mission to achieve.
Reggae and danceha......
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Categories:
breadfruit, celebration, hero, hope, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Ackee
...There you are
Red, black, and gold
And in the wind
Your dress uplifted, the tease
Of hungry men appetite
For I have looked up your tree
With jealousy
At birds beaking your breast
And felt my ......
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Categories:
breadfruit, food, nostalgia
Form:
Free verse
Sea Sand Odyssey
...Saturated with fish fry smells, Bar-B-Cue smoke,
rodeo dust and sounds of deep water blues,
with teasing frothing lace spread on the shore,
Gulf Coast birth breeze blew winds
in sails to Caribbe......
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Categories:
breadfruit, analogy, imagery, journey, metaphor,
Form:
Prose Poetry
While Beauty Sleeps
...While Beauty Sleeps
While Beauty sleeps, there are souls upon this earth that have never known her. Many seasons have passed and her eyes are still shut. She is hiding behind pavements of tar an......
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Categories:
breadfruit, beauty, drug, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Through Good and ... Good
...Step by step, I steadily aged with time and wisdom.
I appreciatively obliged old bones to bow before kindred, king and kingdom.
Thank you mama for cleaning my snotty scum,
thank you for caring wh......
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Categories:
breadfruit, lifesweet, sweet,
Form:
Monorhyme
All My Champions
...Here’s to all my champions, yes you, this is my thing
You are the yam, cocoa, breadfruit, cornmeal dumpling
Pumpkin, dasheen, and potato, in my pot of soup
An excellent, poetic, supportive, pen l......
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Categories:
breadfruit, dedicationsweet, me, sweet,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lynchings On Fox News
...I’ve seen black sheep set in Pongola grass
Within pallid seas, differed,
Like black buttons on a white cotton suit;
Sheep are color blind.
A bee is fine-looking,
But there’s fire in its ass.
C......
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Categories:
breadfruit, death, education, history, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Grubbing
...Adjusting Appetizing Palates.
I have sampled the variety,
I am the one who has tasted life;
The one who has had a taste of life.
Rarely indulged in the main course-
Seldom a full meal-
I come h......
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Categories:
breadfruit, appreciation, food, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Expatriate
...EXPATRIATE…
(Apropos Soon Come)
Heard the chichi budo singing
in the banana walk; heard
the burro braying; and
the mongoose roaming the coop;
smelled the aroma of roast breadfruit,
acke......
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Categories:
breadfruit, anxiety, conflict, desire, home,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Twelve Days of Christmas, Hawaiian Style
..."Just live a little, Hawaiian style!" Quote by Hawaiian Style Band.
On the first day of Christmas, my tutu gave to me,
-- (and...) a-*Ne-ne-Goose-un-der-a-gua-va-tree.
(guava fruits are t......
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Categories:
breadfruit, animal, bird, care, environment,
Form:
Lyric
Indelible
...The cock of day crow over johncrow mountain
Sun come bright
Like Jane and Louise shine eye girl
And light
Just drop from heaven like ripe breadfruit
I pull the darkness from my eyes
And look an......
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Categories:
breadfruit, hopelonging, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Floating Market On the River
...Floating Market on the River
A Thailand tradition
Large sun umbrellas
And boat roofs or hoods
And Asian conical hats
A bucket of cracked brown egg shells
A grandma quickly whips up
Eg......
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Categories:
breadfruit, fishing, food, garden, money,
Form:
Free verse
The Mutiny
...Captain Bligh was his name,
he ruled his ship with an iron cane.
The Bounty was the ship,
sailing to Tahiti, via Cape Horn was the trip.
At Cape Horn, after tacking back and forth,
eastward, was......
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Categories:
breadfruit, history,
Form:
Blank verse
... For Betty
...spring night owls
dream i can’t quite wake from
beautiful interlude
spirit grain
rice slippery
pavement warm
gray nights
all bound up
with what
will she write
tomorrow
ever again
......
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Categories:
breadfruit, allegory
Form:
Free verse