Best Vendor Poems

I look at the green crocodile balls placed in handcrafted bamboo basket
They look ripe and tempting.
The snake skinned vendor looks at me with hopeful eyes
His turtle legs skin with every vein visible is a testimony of many days of hunger
He wears a wrinkled robe of...

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The sun is up, heat unbearable,
He stands there rejected and miserable,
Slowly hope he loses,
as every potential buyer refuses.
His goods remain unsold,
His misery untold.
Swiftly the night approaches,
And his hunger encroaches.
He packs up and leaves,
Despite everything, he calmly sleeps......

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Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur

Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur*
Set up shop (O!) Brahmin virtue pure
No hungry customers
Knocked past the front shutters
Though brisk business raged at rear door.

•	Brahmin enclave in Chennai, Tamil-Nadu, India.
Brahmins were not vegetarians from antiquity.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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(Triolet)
A tribute to the “Balloon Man” by Rose Fyleman 


He comes market to sell balloons.
Red, pinks and purple, blue and greens. 
O, they shine nice in the sun soon.
He comes market  to sell balloons.
And seems to forget lunch at noon.
Balloons are just tied in...

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I do not know his name 
But always like to watch 
He is a small vendor of betel leaf 
At my village market 
Never he wears a shirt and footwear
Monday and Saturday, the market runs 
The Saturday market is my favorite 
Always I will be...

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There once was a beer and hotdog vendor
He was named Sam, but then he changed gender
   His peers were confused
   The fans were amused
Now he's Sam, the Gender-Blender Vendor...

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Fruit vendor John was polishing his pomegranates
The green piece of clean poplin was kissing warmly
He once rubbed the pinkish crust with the soft cloth 
Would then look at it with a mild pomegranate-care 
Is he looking himself into a mirror, I was wondering
Dissatisfied he would now collect...

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A vendor of proven love potions
never gives into emotions
Told:  I need a soul mate!
He quips: Twelve ninety—eight!
I also sell draft beer and lotions

2/2/22...

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Leonardo The Loyal,
Slow silence lowering but
Who where we to know,
Flowing and pouring, pouring

Purple and royal his chin,
As crochet vines, looming
luxuriously, pennys as payment
Selling everything, the black agent...

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I waited alone in a lonely spot in the morning,                Under the shade of a huge banyan tree,            ...

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Write poetry but don't be a vendor,
     be poet is not being a mercenary
     don't settle for such a standard
     you are poet and unmercenary...

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Her vegetable vendor, ‘a nice man’, 
Known for his wile nor sly, rather for smile, 
Unaware of his cunning and sly guile, 
Who proved the point: it pays to please a fan.   

He was game to bid a round of bargains, 
For return...

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Vendor of Ice cream calling clients;
gangs slapped her and took her objects. 
She screamed on the road, 
her voice was not heard.
She thought that they were pickpockets....

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This poem is a re-post from last year for the situation is worsening daily.

ELEPHANT’S GHOST
I am represented as a trinket on a 
Human's wrist.
I was bought from a vendor,
Sometime last September,
I remember the vendor, he was,
Approached by a man in the street,
This man had stepped...

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There are services Ruth can’t render
Because clearly she is quite tender
And you have no right of A Bender …

I mean, Ruth may try a News Vendor
Or your car wash only its fender 
Or your shoes keep leaving with Mender
And in your kitchen with A Blender...

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