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Jemima Poems - Poems about Jemima

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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 ......Read the rest...
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!......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: jemima, black african american, freedom,
Form: Free verse
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 ......Read the rest...
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, ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: jemima, death, heartbroken, natural disasters,
Form: Clerihew
Being Jemima
...Being Jemima Aunt Jemima! Who in God’s name Came up with that name? Molded polyurethane encasing Thick sweet amber You didn’t even think enuf of me To give me decent clothes I can do better ......Read the rest...
Categories: jemima, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Prose

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