Best Choy Poems

Joy Breeds Hope

As my eyes look up to bright sunny skies
And I view soft shape shifting clouds float by
I feel hope instilled through my joyful eyes.
I take a deep breath, let out a long sigh.
Look at the trees how they've weathered the storms
They remain steadfast...

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Gung Hay Fat Choy, black and white it seems
Oh, it is nothing but Happy New year in Chinese
Call it Lantern festival, pleasant spring festival
Celebrations of 15 days, each one ritualized.
Celebrate, the freedom from that beast Nian
Who swallowed humans in a single bite,
Scare him away with...

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Are you ready for a brand new year
The spring festival coming
So let’s all cheer
The lunar calendar starts again
It’s time to clean the cobwebs my friend




Gifts of red envelope’s everywhere
This is the Chinese New Year
The year of the sheep
The ram, the goat
Bring your fire crackers to...

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In Liverpool, England, there is one street containing 
all the Chinese restaurants, side to side, back to back
and stinking drain to sea.
where once a year,  twirling dragons pierce the afternoon air,
passing old men with suits and moneyed-hands, their 
young thugs standing close with tatooed...

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Saturday Farmers’ Market 

Here’s how it goes at our Farmers’ Market:
shoppers all ages, clothing, and races,
parents push bundled babies in strollers, 
children dash eagerly through the crowd. 
Others meander to and fro, seeking 
new food and old faces they know. 
At the top are the...

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as if, only in a fortune cookie 
made of American Asian cuisine "La Choy" 
I could find 
the future, to my humble likings 
i could be, as a flower, is two (to) a bee 
As a lover of all that is the
share that, what is...

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I would help the air by blowing smoke 
into outer space. 
Not like the teens who blow it in my face.

Bok Choy!
For the farmer I would bring rain, 
precipitation to wash upon delicious leafy greens.

Oooooh!
I would open the clouds just like they were a tap,...

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Chinese New Year 2022 *

Oh no! again they've cancelled the Lion Dance
And the Dragons are also put on hold
How I longed to see them gyrate and prance
But the covid virus is still uncontrolled.

The sound of the drums, the cymbals and gongs
So intense and loud we...

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He sits before my window strongly scented 
implanted deep inside my soil so grand 
With bushy arms of spruce uncomplicated 
this big bulbous tree is planted in my land.
With every passing day as I got dented 
by the sweat of my brow, the toil of...

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As lunch draws near,
My taste buds rise.
Will it bring a tear?
Or make my senses rise?

Such in my great joy.
Fish in sauce is great.
Or bok-choy with soy?
A dream on my plate.

Ah,here it comes!
Hot dog on a bun
I can taste it, past my gums.
Would there were more...

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C-omplete
H-appiness
O-r
Y-our

B-est
O-ffered
R-apture
C-aptures
E-cstasy
L-ife
I-s
S-haring

Topic: Birthday of Choy Borcelis (May 10) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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there i was with a 100 pound headache
         wild eyed and in a hurry
filling my cart with impulse purchases
                  ...

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#A Nod To My MOTHER Who LOVED Her BLACKEYE PEAS. "So Do I", If Cooked GOOD..."YES PLEASE!" A GREAT "B" LETTER FOOD...
BROCCOLI 
BOK CHOY 
BERRIES 
BEETS (THESE ARE THE TYPE OF "BEATS" I LIKE...SAID A NON BEET EATING ENTHUSIAST ONCE!)
BRAN (I BARELY RARELY EVER MEET...

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She wanted the dinner to be specail so she asked
her specail freind to fix it for her.
she would offer both  roast pheasant and chicken
combined with fried polenta with
 buttermilk ,bacon bits redbell peppers, chives and asparagus.
Sagey dressing. Garlicey mashed potatoes, and gravey.
goat cheese/cream cheese...

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C-elebration
H-as
O-pened
Y-our

B-irthday
O-ccasion's
R-apturous
C-heerful
E-vent
L-etting
I-t
S-tart

Topic: Birthday of Choy Borcelis (May 10) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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