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Best Tamales Poems

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Tamales
Cooks tamales daily.
Using steamer crock.
Stuff wrapper dough....

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Categories: tamales, father
Form: Haiku



Last Night I Burned My Mom's Tamales
Last night I burned my mom's Tamales ! 
I can't tell you how much I regret it !
It was about 12:30 p.m when I sat...

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Categories: tamales, adventure, allusion, dream, humor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Tamales
Hot tamales door to door
Knocking on doors along the sun baked street
Ten inch sub rotting on the dusty ground
Souls breaking under my feet
In pile of...

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Categories: tamales, allegory, philosophy, political, religion
Form: Verse
Premium Member How Sweet It Is
I was walking on the heath near Rocky Road with Mike and Ike, we’d been pals since our college days and called ourselves The Three...

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Categories: tamales, fun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Remember Grandma
I remember Grandma’s   beauty
  The way she’d grace her smile at me
I remember Grandma’s duty
  Holding family together

I remember the old...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tamales, car, food, grandmother, growing
Form: Quatrain



Candy Land
Over the mountains of Hershey tint
Beyond the forest of peppermint
More sour than pounds of Lemonheads
Higher than vines of Twizzler shreds

Longer than shores of Pop Rocks
Taller...

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Categories: tamales, adventure, children, places, candy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ba Na Na
Minions,
           determine little creatures
In the wide screen
That stir lots of trouble with their funny little...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tamales, funny,
Form: Free verse
Sacrifice : Lopez Christmas Love
S taying up late making 
tamales
A n afternoon poker game
C ramming together in a small 
house
R eminding the young ones 
how bad we used to...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tamales, happiness, health, holiday
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member How Sweet It Is
Rules: Use at least 10 candy names from those listed below.
(30 candy names used)


Tomorrow we'll explore our Galaxy,
not just by space ship, but with 'space...

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Categories: tamales, future, humorous, space, voyage,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Mexican Buffet: Bring It On
To start - fresh salsa with chips;
then that combo plate:
Cheesy enchiladas, beans,
and beef tamales
smothered all in sauce.
Mine’s wicked
hot!...

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Categories: tamales, food
Form: Epulaeryu
Christmas Time's Around the Bend
The time has come to string the lights and decorate the tree,
Fix-up the barn an' house a mite for all the folks to see,
Cause Christmas...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tamales, family, children, happiness, holiday,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dad
Dad

Very creative with his hands, loved unconditionally, spiritual believes

Husband of my mother, father to four sons and four daughters,
 grandfather and great-grandfather  

Loved his...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tamales, dad,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Coleman Texas On My Mind
I remember Buster outside the old post office.
He was selling newspapers but mostly just giving you a smile. 
Ol Felix's tamales 
Were the best ones...

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Categories: tamales, age, childhood, community, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Tex Mex Revolution
attacking with achiote
burns with botanas
challenging us with chalupas
deluge of dulce
elotes by the ear
frightening flan
gouged with guacamole
heaping on the hongas
isla isolation 
jugo huge jagged jugs 
KKKKKKKKKK
langosta...

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Categories: tamales, food
Form: ABC
How Sweet It Is
Life most certainly has its ups and downs.
Sometimes life may be as breathtaking as a Galaxy of whimsical Starburst. 
Heroes and adored Lifesavers protect our...

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Categories: tamales, candy, funny, sweet,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs