Juicy and sweet, these berries delight,
Unique flavor with a hint of almond's bite.
Native to North America's land,
Eaten fresh or dried, both are grand.
Baked into pies or made into jam,
Enjoyed in wines, a treat for the fam.
Rosy bronze leaves in spring's embrace,
Rich in nutrients, a healthful grace.
Indigenous peoples cherished them so,
Essential vitamins they bestow.
Saskatoon berries, nature's gift we know.
Categories:
edible, fruit, june, native american,
Form: Acrostic
Sovereign, spectral,
Edible for medicine,
Flower with power.
Categories:
edible, beauty, faith, flower, inspiration,
Form: Haiku
A cup of fruit taste good
When it comes from truth
A side of flour sifted
Falls like a blanket drape in snow
Honeys good flavorful
Heart and lungs pump blood
We’re chosen for the celebration
Everyone is engaging
9/8/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024
Categories:
edible, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Consume soothing calm
My mind dum...dada...dee...dee
Edible relief
Categories:
edible, anxiety, nonsense,
Form: Haiku
Farmers, too, might not escape hell
For acting Bad Drama too well,
Price of oil raising as they sell
Daring one to on TV tell...
Nigerian Farmers for hell,
Their forests for now Tortoise Shell
Their bank account something to swell
Cool Six Zeroes they want to smell
But, at last, with Satan in cell...
Edible oil now expensive,
Buyers now pick it, looks pensive
Categories:
edible, change, cry, food, money,
Form: Rhyme
When we first saw Columbus;
his sea-bowed legs were struggling ashore;
us natives looked upon that unhealthy guy,
that marinated mariner who brought
news of garlic and olive oil to the unsuspecting,
both of which we natives had no use for.
Then it was that we envisioned as if in a dream
that natives should never, could never
forgive him for the insidious spread of Italian broccoli.
Thus we made war upon the brownish white men,
endeavoring earnestly to place an embargo
on any more useless imports.
No use!
Salesmen traveled all over our hunting grounds
offering yet more pizza ingredients.
The Spanish (long before Columbus Day),
had left pigs and horses for us Indians
for which we were most grateful,
and so we forgave
the genocidal aspirations of the conquistadors,
but broccoli was the absolute last straw,
and so we reigned terror
upon many a city statue of his likeness
and his pervasive, belligerent
garlic-breath.
Categories:
edible, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Top Chef put edible flowers on my plate
I was totally distressed by the lilies fate.
I was disgusted by what he thought was great
Later he asked, “Is this why she never ate?”
Categories:
edible, food,
Form: Monorhyme
pretty florals
adorn thorny leaves
salad fixin’s
Categories:
edible, flower, food, garden, nature,
Form: Haiku
Rose petals dried and coated
In cinnamon and
Sugar with a vanilla
Drop and baked crispy
At three fifty and
Served just warm;
Thrill!
Categories:
edible, appreciation, beautiful, environment, flower,
Form: Epulaeryu
Flavorful horizon
Yellow sun hot like white onion
Cantaloupe moon
Sweet as butter briskets
Trees those greens like broccoli
Valley deep of soup stirring gravy
Baked mounds rain drops
On golden sands risen
Flavorful world
Delicious earth
Spinning matter like in a blender
Containing mountain tops of chocolate
Flavorful world sweet as caramelized sugar
Edible matter
3/23/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
Categories:
edible, allegory, food, nature,
Form: Free verse
The rough scratch
It caresses
Me like a drug
caresses a brain
The dark oak stands above
The bark is the best part
Edible.
Categories:
edible, nonsense,
Form: Pastoral
funnel cake fever
elephant ear excitement
candy apple smile
Categories:
edible, appreciation, food, fun, joy,
Form: Haiku
EDIBLE MUSIC
The garlics are on grand piano in the corner,
Playing alone because of their halitosis.
After making each other’s mouth water,
Clever lemons blowing their trumpets by osmosis.
Onions on sad violins making each other cry.
Mushrooms working in the dark but giving it a try.
Near the open window, beans - small but cute :
Those classic wind instruments , the musical fruit.
Latin rumba from Caracas with coconut maracas.
French grapes can-can in chorus;
Smiling bananas can’t-can’t, but just enjoy the scene.
Tangos with an Argentine tangerine.
Mangos mounting melodies on drums in Afrikaans
Peas piping on piccolos for an Italian folk dance
Rushing polka dots in a Russian borsch whirl.
Oyster shell castanets for a Spanish flamenco girl.
Asparagus dessed in ballet shoes always on tips,
And of course as always, Rose shaking her hips.
All rhythmic foot-tapping fruit
Forever looking for a new recruit.
Categories:
edible, music
Form: Couplet
The witch is now dead
Let's get everyone fed!
Open a shop
With a skip and a hop!
Hope it lasts for a while
Will make everyone smile!
If they find it in the wood
Life will be better than good!
(From Hansel and Grettel)
Categories:
edible, children, funny
Form: Couplet