Long Lima beans Poems

The Christmas when  Santa got Fat 

Kris Kringle rubbed his belly; he was feeling really hungry indeed
Mrs Claus had put him on a diet of what he felt was chicken feed
Brussel Sprouts and Lima...

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I totally adore distance learning!
               I realize, it’s the best for me!
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""Entirely you know 
I cannot change 
the whole of the 
World all on my 
own." - 


"Or can I?"  

"I mean whom 
better to start 
with?"" 


""Yes, finding I 
am; Humility 
raises no 
defense...

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Cornucopia
          By Dane Smith-Johnsen
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Cornucopia
          By Dane Smith-Johnsen
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'Tis said that the first Thanksgiving feast was celebrated in sixteen twenty-one.
'Twas the Pilgrims' first bountiful harvest so they decided to have some fun!
(That was the genesis of church potlucks that are popular to this...

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Talos's teather


Protected by having
in an industry of lovers
he proceeds to ply
between two things i
characters together
heirs to assignment
cohorts of work
trouble through the details
sort out the duties
define there roles
championing each cause
might they labor
thus in toil must they
labor!
When...

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Dedicated to Kyle, my son ... my smile




I recall many unique meals of special appeal
but one dinner replays on a fav memory reel
that I shall never forfeit or agree to forget.
This meal was years ago...

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'Tis Halloween again, the economy is bad and lots of folks are outta work!
I'm gonna reverse this trick or treat racket, tho' some may think me quite a jerk!
Normally, hordes of kids come bangin' on...

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Running the 95 from Jacksonville to Richmond
On a Sunday afternoon in June
The thermometer and the road signs read the same
Sunny and hot, the miles were winding away
When the gas tank and the hour called for...

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Let's run away
We'll find someplace new
A far away land
Where it's only me and you

This place we'll call home
A land filled with such beauty
Work and school won't exist
Having fun our only duty.

We'll do whatever we want
Eat...

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(a very old poem poem written as an adolescent)

To everyone who sees this,
They are commanded to chant
"Hinahiboaola" in the most
Gracious and humble
Manner you can 
At that present time.

That is an order from Hina
Nasroalaba Soooaoieeee
And his...

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newly deceased ghost lit his own caustic farts
wearing aluminum kitty cat ears with red jeweled hearts
our resident wild man Count Dracula laughed
as wisconsin cheese's weird math wizard graphed

gram’s annual preteen sunday school halloween party
was sailing...

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Casserole
The word strikes terror in my family
They know it will be all the leftovers of the week
Thrown into a bowl with a couple of raw eggs
Maybe doused with cheese sauce and cooked until 
it is...

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B ountiful crop in the garden patch
U topia for the plants grown there
T umultuous storms' raindrops catch
T rickling down each leaf and pod with flair
E very farmer waits without a match

R everently thanking God in...

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Lunch Country Style




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Rice cakes? Domestic or foreign?
Domestic – aisle seventy-three, 
Foreign – aisle seventy-four.

Hearing aids?
Let me look at my map.
They are in aisle twenty-eight.

Lima beans? Kidney beans? Garbanzo beans?
I believe all beans are in aisle fourteen.
There is...

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Charlie Martin was always fart’n
Thanks to his mama, Mrs. Martin
Beans for breakfast, beans for lunch
Never salt, sugar, or anything with crunch

Baked beans, lima beans, chili beans too
Sometimes in a Shepard’s pie, sometimes in a stew
Kid...

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