Best Healthful Poems

All chickens here assembled, rise and fight.
It’s not enough the humans steal our eggs;
They cut our tender breasts, and that’s not right!
Stand tall upon your...

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I am a tree, so I wish to be,
but not just any tree you'd find.
I love the heat and not wet feet,
so there are few...

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Back in Iowa, where my mother and several of my siblings still live,
my big family gets together for a reunion at Mom’s apartment,
using the reception...

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"But green's the color of spring  
And green can be cool and friendly like
And green can be big like a mountain
Or important like a...

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A feast of eye-catching hues swirl midair,
stoic fragile leaf a chill whisper,
overt orange, deep vein red,
pallid yellow, scaly amber,
jumble upon bright clad jumble,
earthbound mattress on...

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A wild flower, grew up through
a crack in the pavement, I wondered,
why already not trampled
by so many preoccupied feet?  

Sat I down on a...

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"To hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. "
William Shakespeare," Hamlet 1601."


Long ago another planted you,	
My cherished Ginkgo tree.
She tamped you in so carefully
And...

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CHOCOLATE

doc hildebrandt said
“milk chocolate is healthful.”
i love chocolate
i love    CRAVE milk chocolate
so    i ate a ton of it

had chocolate...

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UNEMPLOYMENT....

All we hear about is unemployment,
Appears to be a global torment,
Couldn't we think of creative solutions,
New inventions, using less pollution?
New ideas, concepts for the plebs...

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This dread disease that has afflicted my home, 
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof 
Into something...

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The truth may not be
what it seems,
when wry words
penetrate innocent
minds and classic
flora
like sweet hemlock,
waits with a secret agenda.
 “A labyrinth of schizophrenic
evil of a mind
about...

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Diet Coke, icy cold, has fame.
Spiked with cherry or lime, it’s tame,
I buy the brand Shasta
because my drink hasta
use Splenda, not bad aspartame.

Written 10/23/12 by...

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Some have the habit of hurling angry words that wound
and stir up strife...
But I admire the one who uses words of kindness, filled 
with love...

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Labeled as a healthful 
Legume, this root is sweet
Like sugar, but with a 
Long-lasting, stronger taste!
Lollipop licks of it
Linger on my tongue. I
Love its unique...

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Contrary to popular belief, it did not come from Rome.
California in the USA is what it calls home.
This rather simple salad is considered fabulous.
All you...

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