Kimchi, bimbap
Bibimbap buds
All Korean taste.
Categories:
kimchi, culture, food, people,
Form: Than-Bauk
Don't drink the pickle juice
for your caboose will cut loose
Beans indeed will make you toot
really are the magical fruit
Cabbage can be savage
for the air it will ravage
Open the window on burrito night
don't strike a match for a light
Eating kimchi a Korean treat
from your bottom sounds will tweet
To many raw vegetables and leafy greens
will release gases the smell obscene
Go ahead eat those foods all you can
but go outside and toot down wind
Categories:
kimchi, fun, funny, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
I’m chasing akkermansia
I’m racing to the health shop
Hopping from aisle to aisle
So that I can find some beneficial bacteria
I need more akkermansia
So I have to change my food!
This is essential to the quality of life
Walnuts could help me and
Set me free of the bad bacteria
Pomegranate juice and Cranberry Juice could pave the way
I know that sugar can destroy the good bacteria
While akkermansia can help me get rid of some toxins!
I’m looking for sauerkraut in aisle one
This might be quite fun
To my left, Kimchi shouts at me
While the apple cider vinegar points to me
Further down I see the dill fermented cucumbers
All of it appears to be sour but I realize that
This could be the power in the gut for transformation!
In the end, I need more akkermansia
So I have to change my food!
This is essential to the quality of life
Mark Frank
Copyright 2022
Categories:
kimchi, life,
Form: Free verse
Footsteps of bare feet press into the mud of the path
Raindrops like soft pearls fall from darkening clouds
embracing the blue mountains
I trod along despite the chill and the wet
up a familiar path the soles of my feet
have known since childhood
Holding my shoes to salvage them
not wanting to clean off cakes of mud
or ruin their insides. Up and up
step by step with pant legs rolled up my legs
I march up the narrow mountain path
Need to reach the plateau where the field resides
and amidst an evergreen woods a cabin rest
Through the branches I see the chimney smoking
Before the path becomes a stream I squish my way
up a landing and here I am
My head above the clouds
my feet on grassy ground
I see the bright warm light
emitting from the front cabin windows
On ward I walk to reach my childhood
and in the air the smell of dumplings and kimchi stew
Up the front porch steps I leap
and knock on the worn front door
it opens wide and my tiny grandmother
smiles her toothless smile
Wipe your feet boy
supper is on the table
Categories:
kimchi, journey,
Form: Free verse
Empath
A rookie poet,quote lover,business oriented,college student
Who loves her pet dogs,fond of Korean pop music and addicted to reading manga
Concomitant of someone’s joy is your joy,Art is a dormant talent in all,Love is life
I feel safe in my own space,content with my loving family,thankful to my creator
Terrified of snakes,the unknown and being forgotten by those I cherish
I desire to make my parents proud & happy,explore the world,eat kimchi in Seoul
Resident of a village cushioned between diamond mines,my country’s finest!
Pluviophile
Categories:
kimchi, art,
Form: Bio
Oh yeah
I got the kimchi blues
every day since I first ate it
back in the day
long before i went to Korea
ended up staying on in Korea
after i retired from decade
in the Foreign Service
and ten years studying
and living in Korea
before I joined
the Foreign Service
When I first ate kimchi
I was hooked
sort of a spicier version
of German sauerkraut
which i loved on my top dog
from Berkeley high school days
then off to korea
in the peace corps
where I ate kimchi
every day for every meal
and eventually I woke up
dreaming of kimchi and rice
instead of pancakes and eggs
then I knew
that I had finally adjusted
and was becoming half Korean
and now I am a hopeless kimchi addict
need to have my spicy kimchi
which is so good for you
perhaps even defeating the dreaded corona virus?
who knows but I will be eating Kimchi
until my day is done
Categories:
kimchi, addiction, desire, food,
Form: Free verse
Health Food
natural, low-calorie
nourishing, strengthening, boring
kale, *kimchi, chips, chocolate
tantalizing, satisfying, fattening
salty, sweet
Junk Food
*Kimchi is the national health food of Korea, fermented vegetables, particularly cabbage. It's nasty-tasting stuff, but to each his own.
For the Diamante Poem Contest of Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
kimchi, food,
Form: Diamante