We always ate salad when I was a kid,
With lettuce and carrots and cukes
And also tomatoes and olives at times
But today, that would bring some rebukes.
For the lettuce was iceberg, which I never buy,
Though we didn’t have choices back then
Or perhaps that’s the kind that my mother preferred,
So she bought it again and again.
I now buy arugula, sometimes romaine
Or a mixture of various kinds
Of colorful lettuces, common today,
Just like spinach, as grocery finds.
I still add tomatoes and carrots and, too,
Things like peppers and sugar snap peas,
But the lettuce will never be iceberg because
My mother’s not here to appease.
Categories:
cukes, food,
Form: Rhyme
when things are springing and
i'm diggin' into a lively summer
and the sun's downing the day
and the earth's warm with love
i play, i dig, i dream
i work, then play some more
i pluck, and turn, and wet
my appetite for life
retiring to repast
i pull my digits to
a pentagon point and
inhale - deeply the scents
from under fingernails
a loamy tanged radish
relishing heritage cukes
meeting bliss of better boys
better days, even now
a botany so lustful,
and good moaning too
soon the cooling solstice
will fallow your terra
but now, your swelling,
your musky fragrance
brings ****** of appreciation
and appetite for even more
to wish to share it
the sheerness of light
the fragrant breeze inhales
the sense of scents
and a budding lingual taste
- the dirt of desire
© Goode Guy 2013-05-28
Categories:
cukes, earth, food, garden, heart,
Form: Narrative
cukes finding trellis
edemame has some blooms
green peas pushing through
pulled the scotch bonnet
no space for non- production
chickens love the scrap
salad needs thinned out
bugs didn't get all the kale
mighty spinach grows
using recipe
as prescribed once a week and
buds n blooms monthly
3 kinds of cabbage
rainbows colors of Swiss chard
planted by the moon
Categories:
cukes, seasons
Form: Haiku
the cukes were cool
while carrots saw clear
the coming assault
of asparagus spears
red peppers hot tempered
tomatoes were thrown
and the onions sat crying-
LETTUCE ALONE!*
it is what it is gang!
Categories:
cukes, funny
Form: I do not know?