Long Green beans Poems

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of...

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Driving my car across the country, numerous years ago, going to a new place,       
     Changing who I’d know
A loud bang broke the boredom and...

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Be a good example…
Don’t you know what that means?
I munch on my apple
Didn’t you hear me? Eat your green beans!

You’re stuck in place
You say “no”…
Stop denying it so
And I say “yes”
But, you can make progress
You’re...

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December 24, 2015

There was a boy called Jimmie who was writing his letter to Santa Claus. The list of the gifts was very lengthy. It included a control remote car, a baseball bat, clothes and...

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Got GAS--- Flatulence


Got me sum delicate tummy
Ate too MUCH late at night
After eight-thirty  for Pete’s sake----
Guess I should not have ate
That cabbage and raw egg cinnamon-shake
NOW MY STOMACH ACHCES
 Like the horn of auto...

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Cornucopia
          By Dane Smith-Johnsen
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Cornucopia
          By Dane Smith-Johnsen
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“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
Mehmet Murat ildan


Questions of resolutions for new years day.
It's a comedic quest that's all...

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The Pilgrims were so happy to finally set foot on Plymouth Rock,
They decided that the time had come for each to take some stock.

They built themselves a Pilgrim town of houses and very little more,
Then...

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29 Aug 2014 6:53 pm

Adult playland

Time stands still in
a magical land
come let me show
you, just take my
hand

No children can come
here its only for
the grown
A place to relax a
far away home

There are trees
filled with fruits
and nuts
and...

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The Personification of Success
Success when seen with my eyes looks like quilts, diaries, prayers chastening rods and lots of hugs, off to school and then to college even marriage too.
Success smells like pastures with cows...

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So versatile is the potato.
It’s orange; it’s yellow; it’s white; it’s sweet.
It’s baked or boiled; it’s mashed or fried.
It’s served with poultry, with fish or with meat.

I love to cook, and I have for you
three...

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I sit at my computer musing and trying to compose meaningful verse.
Try as I might with Shakespearian panache my lines to intersperse,
With profound nuggets of enlightenment to attain universal fame,
My concentration is lost in a...

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Everything my mother or grandmother cooked
was good for your soul
from the rich beef ribs 
braised in a new red wine
to the lamb or pork
nurtured tenderly with fresh herbs
or even the high fat meat loaf
never served...

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In my vegetable garden, 
birds are watching me, pick 
green beans to eat.
A lone robin, scrounges for seeds, from sun flowers.
An old, twisted oak tree, 
filters the sunlight.

The cool, filtered light, 
is just right, for...

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At the footbridge back in the mid-eighties is where I grew to know the beauty of all things life had to offer. There I was, only six years old. Young enough to get in trouble...

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It Takes A Whole Village to Raise a Child: The Farmer

It has been said that it takes a whole village
To raise a child; How does a farmer help
Families raise the children?

Farmers live near the village;...

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In my vegetable garden, 
birds are watching me, pick 
green beans to eat.
A lone robin, scrounges for seeds, from sun flowers.
An old, twisted oak tree, 
filters the sunlight.

The cool, filtered light, 
is just right, for...

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If you want to grow up big and strong,
Listen here, you won't go wrong.
If you want to grow, grow, grow,
Choose all the colors from the rainbow.

We never get enough of green--
Here's the kinds of foods...

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On a September day as I sit 
on my front porch 
watching the yellow leaves 
fall ever so fast 
from an old black walnut tree 
my daddy planted in the past, 

On a September day...

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The harvest comes in with the ending
Of summer heat and fresh green things
That fill my heart with laughter and joy
~
The garden grows wild and willowy with
Fresh produce - green beans, corn, tomatoes
All succulent and tempting...

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Summertime meals are delicious
sandwiches with sliced tomatoes
green beans cooked with new potatoes

Homegrown, healthy and nutritious
garden vegetables and fruits
a mixture of tubers and roots

Meals are often expeditious
hotdogs and burgers on the grill
homemade ice cream an added...

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MAGNETIC NORTH

A house misses you.
You don’t live there now.
It’s delighted to see you.
It pulls you to it’s curb.

A house misses you.
You happen by.
That dark window,
knows your outside.

That house misses you!
There are the violets.
Once grown in...

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Sunday diner at grandma's was
a delight to be remembered.

On her table this very day,
was fried chicken, that she
had killed that very morning.

Mashed potatoes and gravy,
green beans with bacon,
corn bread, that melted

in your month, so
tasty was...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Old Days
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2013

In the old days
when smiles 
on faces 
were common -

 folk
would look
you in the
eye
 with honor -

Kids were
taught 
to always
respect
they're
elders -

And every
mother
and
father
in the
 neighborhood, 
would
correct you
when you
did wrong -

Back then,
life seemed
so simple -

In these
old...

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