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Jemima Poems - Poems about Jemima

Premium Member Love at Eight
...I waited and I waited just in case she’d been delayed I stood there feeling foolish, though I acted undismayed A movie and some popcorn might have won her pretty smile And I was very keen and so ......

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Categories: jemima, boyfriend, childhood, girlfriend, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Those Are the -- Commercial -- Breaks
...I used to have Alka-Seltzer stomachs spitting Excedrin headaches Had a lot to like in a Marlboro even ate Aunt Jemima pancakes I admit -- I thought Coke was xxxtt ......

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Categories: jemima, fun, me, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Food D
...Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben Got the boot because of their skin For those who take fright Try PhotoShop white Taste's the same since I don't know when!......

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Categories: jemima, discrimination, food,
Form: Limerick
In My Annual Acrostic
...J-oyful E-xpression's M-essage I-n M-y A-nnual A-crostic B-eautifully A-dvances R-ight R-emembrance's A-im Topic: Birthday of Jemima M. Abarra (January 23) Form: Vertica......

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Categories: jemima, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Too Much To Live For
...If you find my lifeless body hanging from a tree, Know that I have too much to live for, I am not a fruit that easily grows on trees, Yet too many trees have fruit that looks like me, and too man......

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Categories: jemima, black african american, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member It Have Come Down To This
...Annie Lander I never took notice of Aunt Jemima photo as exploitation Nothing racial or stereo types (did you)? All I remember was the sticky bottle on our kitchen table, next to a stack ......

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Categories: jemima, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Uncle Ben
...The rice I use is Uncle Ben’s Or was until today, For just like Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben will go away. He’s leaving with a friend of his Named Mrs. Butterworth. Like Aunt Jemima, she is known, ......

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Categories: jemima, change,
Form: Rhyme
Meaning In Marvelous Acrostic
...J-ust E-njoy M-eaning I-n M-arvelous A-crostic A-s B-irthday A-pplies R-ighteous R-egards A-nnually Topic: Birthday of Jemima M. Abarra (January 23) Form: Vertical Monocrostic......

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Categories: jemima, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Elephant Who Lost a Shoe
...‘Great Scott, shucks and darn, I’ve gone and lost a shoe’ cursed the elephant followed by ‘this simply will not do!’ ‘The blasted thing is far too loose, I should have had it mended! So, whoever h......

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Categories: jemima, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Many Pets
...I’m facing a challenge and I’m taking bets That I can remember the names of my pets There’s Tommy and Jonnie and Sally and Barry The one over there I believe might be Harry Tiddles and Wriggles......

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Categories: jemima, animal, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Parad Em Ise
...Parad(em)ise Dangling from a stolid chandelier of empty shadows Her threadbare strings attached to vacant promises Jemima has tried every angle of escape and refuge Her make up faded an......

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Categories: jemima, dark,
Form: Free verse
Tongue Suppressor
... Alabaster body of truth got buried beneath a dung-key pile of swastika lies SWAT teams of fascist oppression swarm the polling places like hieroglyphic Dead Sea flies Democracy i......

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Categories: jemima, allusion, perspective, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Sprinkled Cinnamon
...The smell of green grass after rain A silky texture was added to the moisturized air gently touching my skin Listening to a Bossa Nova and the calming waves Espresso with a little whipped cream ......

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Categories: jemima, i am, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ain'T Ya Mama
...AIN'T YA MAMA I MAY NURTURE YOU NOW AND THEN WE MAY OR MAY NOT BE NEXT OF KIN BUT I FIND IT SO MAZING I AIN'T YA MAMA NOT YOUR MAMAM nO, AUNT JEMIMA NOT TRYING TO BE DONMINATION COARSE AND ......

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Categories: jemima, beautiful, caregiving, character, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Dark Dawn
...Light is awaking, New dawn is breaking, A breathtaking morning, Now faces scream warning! Spreading lava! Getting faster! Eruption! Destruction! Shaking! Taking! Dark. (by Jemima......

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Categories: jemima, death, heartbroken, natural disasters,
Form: Clerihew

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