Long Cacao Poems

Deborah happened on it by chance…and it had immediate allure
an advertisement in Asheville…for chocolate factory tour.

“We get to tour a chocolate factory.” she said. “And taste chocolate. It’s a win win.
Before you could say Willy...

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My love has been out of town for weeks and weeks,
And I want to make a romantic dinner for two;
Something really special and sexy and delicious,
So, I spent days planning the menu and setting...

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Another Easter spent
feasting on Jelly Bean Martinis,
sculpting butter lambs
with Nana’s mastiff Escort
snoring by tabletop fire.

Aunt Bea smoked lemongrass,
shading wooden eggs 
with Dappled Willow shrubs.

A whimsical Slovakian cousin
suggested we whip each other with willow rods,
sprinkle ice-choked...

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(a story in Senryus)

I can’t figure out
why everything doesn’t
happen like I want.

I brush my teeth and
floss regularly, I wash
my roommates dishes,

I am generous,
I don’t run in the hallways,
I do my homework.

I support pizza
places, Amazon -...

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BAHAY KUBO III

A makeshift house
Walking distance by the sea
No matter how poor and humble
It is a house and a home
Made of light materials
Bamboos, cogons, and madre cacaos
Relatives and friends helped me
Built this through thick and...

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Burden of a Hasty Marriage.   
He saw her at the cafe she a cup of cacao and eating a cream cake, 
he had a sandwich with cheese and ham. She looked up and...

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All chocolate comes from the cacao trees
They grow best in tropical vicinities.
The tree first grew in Central America
although most of them now grow in Africa.
A portion of them also comes from Asia.
Equatorial climate proves most...

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Epiphany 

1950, there had been a war, but things were going back to normal.
My mother had a new boyfriend who also had a small cabin on an island
and a rowing boat.
On a nice Sunday, we...

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The Last Sunday of October. 

Vilamoura marina on a glorious October day, tourists gone home
leaving the promenade for us elderly to walk sedately along it.
I saw an ancient lady walking forcefully, using a Zimmer frame,
It...

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Enticement so divine it's secret I hide
Amid linens, other darken spaces 
Welcoming hot passionate embraces 
Only once, then never again; I always lie.

My heart refuses to waive control My pride
I try to keep looking upward,...

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Discern and see the choice you make:
Taste sweet tasty such cacao flakes.


Fine food can free the senses dear:
Charm you can see as flavours steer.


Buy a fine feast, chocolate treat:
Indulge your least in highs that greet.


No...

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Cocoa tacos and cacao pizza,
fudge fries for sweet crème dipping;
I missed one! Forgive my amnesia;

A jello slide right into gumballs,
just be careful how you ride down;
Children are accosted by its falls;

The root beer float can...

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Chocolate bonbons are fun to have and enjoy,
Fudge made tasty, flavors little taste buds in glee,
SEE’S Candies and Whitman’s Chocolates cheers the taster,
Belgium chocolates tasteful little morsels quickly flee.

Milk chocolate versus dark chocolate healthy alternative...

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Flavours of desire become potent,
flavours of desire dance on my tongue;
Flavours of desire the taste of your skin;

Flavours of desire are flakes of vanilla,
flavours of desire bite them off supple lips;
Flavours of desire are extremely...

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Changing world?

In Peru, they import potatoes
In Guatemala, they plant thousands of trees
drink cacao, sit in groups, and sing
think they are new agers 
the new war in The Middle East began 
because Israel saw the need to attack
Iran,...

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