Best Mangosteen Poems

Late repast
Mealtime message;
Food invigorates

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Joy spreads
Peanut butter bread;
Poignant taste

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Fish head curry
White rice paradise;
Earthly ambrosia

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Family meal
Celebratory moods;
Evening delights

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Premium durian feast
Pleasure primes palates;
Mangosteen topping

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Tuesday month-end
June succumbs;
July takeover

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By and by
Here and there;
Anxious punctuation

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Mystic mathematics
One upon zero;
Infinity presides

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Pineapple slices
Everyday desserts;
Meal aftermath

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Two hands full 
Groceries in tow;
Bounty enroute

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Late morning siesta
Heavy constellations;
Dizzy...

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The dreadful phone call came, “we have bad news”.
Somehow I already knew, but the words screamed in my mind.
“You have cancer”, and an aggressive kind.
For the first time, I yelled at God, threw things across a porch.
I had been through too much trauma as it...

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a hardening mangosteen
with wounded white seeds
increasing into rotten arrogance
of monstrous'  velocity

sentimentality-
rises slowly to the skin
emitting cerebral poison
flavored with the sourest 
and most bitter condiments

as troubled being 
devours senseless hurt
sentimentality’s lava
flows drifting soul into sin


June 4, 2022      9.52am...

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Flying foxes hang replete from the rain trees
dripping in the morning sun.
They have sucked the flesh
of mamey sapote,
of rambutan and mangosteen.
Their dog-like pelts are copper pendants
that dribble a dawn dew onto our heads.

Jia Liu has an Uncle
that is not related to her.
When he is away
she...

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