Best Rice Poems

(This is a universal story of mother’s sacrifice for their children, be it material, emotional, or intellectual.)


It was during the Korean War
Father was taken away by the Communists
Months ago
He never returned

Mother and I were left alone
In an island as refugees
Without anyone supporting us

One day
Mother brought...

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Rice fields look the same except
for this one; this one who knew me
before i was born… and lying on her
fertile belly, she tosses the mist
of evening’s bamboo for raindrops to
moisten the flesh of gentle cattle.

Through serenades from elders
gathering in a bonfire of twitters
and jousts,a carousel...

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White as snow
                               sugar sprinkle and cinnamon

        ...

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I meet you in Laos
as a seed
just a simple
existence of hard rice
seeded inside Huay Xai’s dirt
until water plains
cradle and nourish your infant body
'till you sprout above water banks
where you tickle yourself
with sunshine
like a child who spends all
day with the wind
when you mature
people pull your roots
carry...

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fragile rice papers
cling to a thrashed wicker wall
and silent gazes
kanji-stained blots become buds
some bloom into ureshii


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1.  "Ureshii" means happiness (Japanese).
2.  Formerly titled Minamisanriku's List....

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Cook white rice with ochroe in
                                      Coconut milk-----stew...

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Today if I'm anxious I will listen to the wind.

I will hear the birds calling one another or just chirping to be heard.

I will look around me and describe the brown tree with green moss on its side.

The cinder block grey and a leaf inside.

The...

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nature's rice krispies

   kindling wood on the fireplace
 
     ~ snap, crackle and pop!...

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YUM MAMA'S SWEET RICE--

Add cream, milk and butter
Boil it on the stovetop
Just the right amount of water and sugar;
Taste just like a desert
Yes! So lovely fine and nice
Yum!! mamasweet rice


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~Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~
(1900-1981 
(Monchielle) 


Lovely lady, she shines 
Ambass'dor of Sunshine 
Daughter, sister and wife 
Upliftin' poems she wrote 
She persevered through strife 

Lovely lady, she shines 
She's famous poetess 
Wrote verses of faith and hope 
Her life was so very hard 
She...

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~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~ 
 (1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )



Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of  Love, Faith, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister and wife
She fought hard all thru her life to cope

~0~

Love for God kept her strong
She truly loved...

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I do not want to eat rice and beans any more
I want a new meal
I'm ready to throw this pot out the door
I'm sure I've  had my fill
Rice and beans is my poor folks food
You know when you barely have money
After four days it...

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~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~ 
 (1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )


Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of Faith, Love, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister, writer, wife
She fought hard all thru her life to cope

Love for God kept her strong
She truly loved the...

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Don't know 'bout you, but I'm in a stew
that Rice ain't nice and the NFL  smells.
Seems a shame, just  2 games
suspension for sending fiancé to unconscious dimension 
but 5 games in the pink for some "illegal" ink
and a season on the rope for...

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the new normal

I'm isolated, waiting
at home with my wife
adapting like others
to our normal new life

a few days, no problem
a week, it's a breeze
but, nobody said
there would be days like these

at first it was easy
cleaning, watching tv
I dusted, did windows
even cut back a tree

i worked in...

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