Best Squash Poems

Squash blossoms with filling of
sugar, cream cheese and
ginger, cinnamon, pumpkin
dash vanilla bean
baked at three-fifty
floral cheese
joy!
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Pumpkin, merry queen of squash,
regnant on accord.
With a smooth and ribb-ed rind
clad in pepo-orange,
two strikes to sever
from the vine.
Gourd!





*Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded by order of her cousin Queen Elizabeth of England in
1587.  Detailed accounts record it took two strikes of the axe...

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Moosewood Cookbook's Arabian Squash Casserole

Substitute post-Halloween pumpkin and Ghost Pepper to keep it scary....

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Built to take the abusive raqueteering
punishment unleashed upon me
by human beings

Towering around those agile people
so quick of foot and strong of arm
with blood sweat, and testosterone raging

Black rubber ball scuffs pure white painted walls
a dash here, a strike there, a record good or bad
but each...

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Large yellow-orange
blooms, falls last foliage appears
reminding me-hope.

Pray for harvest
of the late bloomers fruit and
harvest in spring time....

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Once two of my least favorite veggies in the world,
I realized just how quickly life can change on you
Through the course of time
How sudden the impact it can have as you grow.
I hated Zucchini; I used to cry when I saw my mom cut it...

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Youngest Champion In Woman Squash

There you have it, the youngest ever World Woman Squash Champion..
At a tender age of twenty, Nour El Sherbini is the 2015 Woman World Champion..

Coming off the prolific production line from the Land Of The Pharoahs...
This 20 year old squash talent...

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Blue Hubbard, or Butternut -
    A squash is a squash.
Bake at four hundred degrees
    'til the flesh is soft,
    sweet like a candy,
        healthy, and
    ...

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Strenuous work,
Gimme a perk, 
It hurts, the pain,
I'm not the same.

Bending backs,
facing the facts,
I'm not a farmer,
A bogus charmer.

And they tell me;
Be careful said he--
It's squash, not squish
You work or you flee....

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Sweet potato whipped with cream
Butter and sugar
Nutmeg blend with marshmallows
Baked in acorn squash
Aroma rising
Taste so yum—
my!
Sweet!
So charming
Mouth water flowing
Give me this baked squash
Accented with cranberry
Sprinkled with walnuts
Filled with baked sweeeet potato

© Joseph, 12/12/07
© All Rights Reserved


The poem starts with the regular format of seven syllables...

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The Bund China Squash Open 2015

The Bund China  Squash Open 2015 was recently played  out in Shanghai…
It was the first squash major as a  season’s opener after a summer break…

The unseeded hopefuls have battled through 2 rounds of qualifying battles…
Yesterday was the...

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An Aging Squash Fan

As a father watchful over the progress of a little girl active in a chosen sport..
Little wonder that I am a bag of nerves during competition time for the sport...
That familiar awful queasy feelings churning in the depths of my stomach...
And little...

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It is a final long dreamed for by the organisers...
It is a final matchup between the top 2 contenders...

Here in this for off island of Borneo, 3 days of frantic matches...
Will end with this crucial final match to determine the worthy champion...

The top seed, there...

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Here in far off Borneo, junior squash players are gathered in numbers...
Young and energetic, these are Malaysia's young hopefuls and contenders...

In the numbing heat within this immense hall, the muted thuds of hard hit balls...
Interrupt the cacophony of low conversations permeating through this hall...

Spectators, mostly...

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A Winner in 2017 OHANA Woman Div 1 

There I was, on a  rollercoaster of anxiety with many an anxious moment...
Each time my player dropped a set against each of her squash opponents...

In the Qfinals she suffered a 3rdset hiccup to a player junior...

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