Best Plantain Poems

Knowing the knowledge of man is like testing the wielder man,
growing and gripping from grass that causes a liquor of liquid.
••••
To those who love plant,
will tell the benefit of the incubant everywhere in the farm,
having a rotating mind to wind up a standing fan.
••••
The sick will pick the dreak,
living the falling leaves to in astray...

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Eat me as cheeps
Boil me as food
Either green or yellow
I grow every where
Green when unripe
Yellow when ripe
I give you suckers for the 
Future
Give me nine months
I  give you
Fruits yes fruits
Plenty of it
Some to sell
Some to eat....

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The pink petal is holding the buds safe like a mother hen,
I see another overlapping, 
As I keep removing the laps one by one,
I realize, isn't our life's destinies going the same,
We achieve one goal, to start one anew,
As we peel the clusters one by one,
Here the stamen and the baby pink plastic like looking...

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The scalloped plantain
Shapes like a scallop
Leaves open up like a fan
Flat and wide
A remarkable landmark
Eye-catching and attractive
Frankly displaying
With no secrets hiding
Sincerely welcoming you
With open arms
Strikingly loyal
With supporting and compromising 
Raised hands
But sad to say
It's disappearing from the garden
People are too busy and unartistic 
To admire the surrounding
To appreciate the nature beauty 
To be grateful to...

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The fruit is tasty
So different in taste
looks like a banana
Yet its not the same

A banana just eat
Plantain must be cooked
Once its golden brown
It is ready to eat

Any time of day
It does not matter
A delightful treat
I often enjoy...

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Caseworker: Yams and Plantain

	Cabrini-Green Housing Project
        Chicago

Bienvenido’s comin’ over,
says his wife, 
to ‘splain me

why the kids
have got no rice, 
no beans, 

how the landlord’s
shovin’ notes beneath 
the door again.

In Puerto Rico Bienvenido
dug up yams,
was paid in plantain,

came over here,
brought his wife,
then his kids.

First New York, 
then Chicago,
gave up...

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