Mulatto the Alligator
...I've heard him sing: The Mulatto:
By fat hotter than Roberto
Like Pepper is to Pimento;
Lost to him, too, one Alberto:
The boy friend of Fine Talatu...
Alto in all shows he goes to,
Even when...
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Categories:
irish potato, celebration, creation, devotion, people,
Form: Rhyme
No Longer Free To Go To a Market
...Impecunious news hunters on Oxford Avenue
Craned over newspapers spread on the floor
To gather ammunition about who knew
The last gossip about a politician shown the door
By hacks in his polit...
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Categories:
irish potato, poems,
Form: Free verse
Irish Potato Famine
...'Twas a horrible thing called the blight,
diseased potatoes a depressing sight,
starvation begone,
crossed over the pond,
arrived Ellis Island future looks bright.
3-13-17...
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Categories:
irish potato, food, ireland, moving on,
Form: Limerick
Fertile Crescent, Iii
...Fertile Crescent
and Vestigial Conscience
The sun overshadowing my morality
my self- righteousness eclipsed
Where early mans' dawn is,
Our sun over my left *should* threaten to tinge me if
I ponti...
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Categories:
irish potato, america, angst, character, conflict,
Form: Epic
Irish Potato
...Me great, great, great-grand pappy-died
His son, sailed away from fighting Ireland
In the wake of the potato famine, sought land
Farming his love, many sons his pride
Irish potatoes-boiled, mashe...
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Categories:
irish potato, family
Form: Limerick