Long Carotene Poems

While trickling thick amber honey
in my black decoffied coffee
I wonder why I never noticed
until just ever now

How refined white sugar
has monopolized my wider full-hued view
of more nurturing nutritional brown sugars
natural bio-resonant sweets
healthier sugar-phosphate cooperative relationships
as...

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A LEAF 

To feed a tree I grasp Old Sol‘s energy
Using chlorophyll and carotene,
Which to you look green.

Absorbed by me, which you cannot see,
Light energies yellow, red, and blue
Are converted into chemistry, producing a tree...

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Some light chicken noodle some like beef and broccoli some like vegetarian some light broth some like tomato some like cream of mushroom but my favorite soup can I tune to is the ones with...

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Two days ago I filled up my fridge ... now it is empty - I was expecting visit of my cousin, her husband and seven hungry children
From fairness, is food the only thing that makes...

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Mall Fountain flows, bubbles in mouthy foam, 
colorless coloring of a mood therein, roams

Moniker sigel flavors of the day to go with my coffee,...

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At the coffee shop, a chap walked in,
Ordered a latte, wore a sly grin.
With a carrot, he stirred, no spoon in sight,
Perplexed, I stared, as my thoughts took flight.

The buzzing barista continued her work,
Same as...

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Carcinoma, melanoma sick twins
Inside their innocuous hosts grin
For surface tension brings no chagrin
Another, common diagnosis will time lend
Healthy cell structures to amend
Immune systems with guile befriend
In state of denial, journey begins
Signs not to the human...

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Who waves the flaming brand? I really think I know.
Arrayed with fiery arms, He puts on quite a show.
The artist of autumn, in a dazzling display
Of sweet gums, and red maples—takes our breath away.

Summer fades...

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My carotene heart is bursting with orangeness
The zestiness inside me has created my zany urges
I am ready to be harvested; can you not see my verdant roof?

It is sticking out of the ground with my...

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A baby was born with carotene skin and left 
on a Senator’s doorstep in Washington.
This neonate’s pigment was reddish orange,
bright too, unusually garish.
How will we label it? The lawmakers fretted
when the Senator took it to...

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I stretch out in a variety of positions
Trying to look my sexiest.
My frothy green leaves 
A sensual contrast to
my blazing hot skin

My carotene is rising rapidly
I can feel my cheeks flush
If broccoli does not get...

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If carrots peeled for dipping, cut in strips
could keep their beta-carotene, yet taste
like crackers Ritz when placed upon my lips,
What bliss!  But they do not. Ah! - such a waste!

And if that low-fat yogurt...

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The carrot truck was full of carotene so good for the bunny brigade.
It is marvelous having this produce today said the garden in the glade.
He felt badly because his carrot crop had been wiped out...

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