Long Mango Poems

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Premium Member Nothing But Hottest Tabasco

sizzling fish taco, spread with
                                        hottest Tabasco 
                                     avocado, bassa fillet
                                     pungent vinaigrette 
                                      mango salsa moist
                                            deliquesce
                                                melts!



                                            June 2, 2022
              "What's Cooking On The Grill This Summer" Poetry Contest
                                        Sponsor: M. L. Kiser
                                 Syllables checked by HMS.com
Form: Epulaeryu


Premium Member Pickle Party

Our happy-go-lucky friend once invited us
at his place to what he called pickle party.
We all were intrigued and excited,
for he mentioned the unique recipe,
which would be delicious cheese sandwich,
each one with filling of different types of pickle,
such as dill, lime, gooseberry, brewed in vinegar,
carrot, mango, and red chili, soaked in brine.

He had carefully laid out the table for us
with an array of six casseroles,
each one containing similar looking sandwich
of cheddar cheese with filling of specific pickle,
indicated by its transparent bottle placed 
strategically in front of each casserole.
After we took a few sips of chilled beer
we were asked to taste the sandwich.

We chose all the different types,
except for the red chili one,
for none of us wanted to blaze the tongue.
As we took one bite we jumped up,
for the red chili set our mouths on fire.
We became the invited victim
of the culinary prank of our friend
who had fun seeing us in pickle at pickle party.

________________

August 19, 2022
Contest : It's A Pickle Party
Sponsored by : Mystic Rose Rose

Premium Member Monkey Business

marauding foxes  
mutilating fruit
minutemen mischief-makers
marching upon us

pick our pockets
laugh at our loss
   
“No mangoes for sale”

maimed, mangled, mashed
sweetness shamed  
to death
ants and gnats feasting
off illicit mango chutney

sly scamps
evade 
like Bolt-pace
their intake 
of fruit sugars  
insufficient for catching  
robust diabetes
enfeebling the fiends
abducting limbs, or a pedactyl
soulful eyes stare with jeers
sailing
mimicking 
bold breezes 
through the trees
as I could never  
in the canopy of my Caribbean youth
under mother's God-eye 
girls outclimbed me
wearing puffy petticoats
and cumbersome cornrows 
to perpetrate petite thefts
          of mangoes

The Canto of Begging - 1 To 4

the canto of begging

1.
when the morning sets in
with the sun rising in the east 
i put on the dress of a beggar 
extended up to the horizon
and the canto of my begging starts 

i beg 
beside the big-bazar 
beside the fly-over 
beside the college-campus 
beside the cow-market 

you then put your elbow 
on the body of the day 
giving a perfect and unbiased pose 
to attached to the album of life 

people of the working-class 
spread hither and thither
to write some more decimal fraction 
on the notebook of life

2.
in the dusts and soil of rural-bengal  
in the testament written by the grass
i am a son of the immortal 

my begging-bowl is the most 
favourite go-ahead of a alone man

then speaking around are 
the chop singara aluposta 

and the love-story of a hyacinth  
blooming in the pond 
blind by mud 

also in the overflowed dustbin of the city 
waiting rightly with an erected head  
the excitement of your absence 

3. 
coming to this canto of begging
do you know 
i  enjoy both 
your intensity and your sharpness

your secret current flows me to the pore of the skin 
of the body of the puller of a hand-barrow
your cold attracts me 
towards the syllabus of waning moonlight  

i do realise now that the stale afternoons 
saved in my pocket
stitched so many new muscles 
with my vocal chord

and i’m howling in joy…
 
4.
what’s an enjoyment… hahaha…day after day
spending too much chaos 
and living to so little extent
tell me is it the least 

within the left-over on the leaf-plates
after eating by the baboos 
i can discover more and more
love 

the mango tree the grass-hopper my begging-bowl
and from the tune of the laxmi-panchali
coming from the middle-class houses
listen, how flourishing is my mother-tongue

Premium Member Tango With a Mango

To tango with a mango;
now that would be sublime;
much sweeter than the bitterness of lime.

With a sticky passion fruit 
I did try to make it merry;
and, once, the innocence of unpicked cherry.

A banana in Havana
I tried, but once beneath the skin
I found it just a little soft, and pale, and thin.

A passion for papaya
gave me all my daily C;
but too much of it did not agree with me.

To moon with a prune
I thought I'd give it a try;
but found that a little wrinkly and dry.

A dapple with an apple?
But taken once a day,
soon become a little tired and gray.

So, I tango with a mango,
I do it all the time;
I tried once with an orange but couldn't make it rhyme.



A Merger With Food Poetry Contest, placed 1st
Sponsored by: Natasha L Scragg 
Date wrote: 9th May 2022
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Evanescence

Nested in the cat’s cradle
Paraded in a child’s fable         
I have no voice, don’t let me die
No longer shall I live a lie
I have no soul nor thoughts to save
Unbeknownst to me is
this life beyond the grave?
A designer dainty as she
silky essence she creeps upon so free
and with sheer elegance
unveils a painted lady in a trance

Wake me before the dream ends
In this a lie I can’t depend
Ochre paint splat on walls
Tinted forewings so not to fall
Hindwings I hold up in pain 
Fragile chitin, scales, and veins   
Bleeding strokes of mango chutney
Opera gloves cobalt blue, cloak impunity 
Wake me up! Before I drop
Still asleep, a standing prop
And when I open my eyes
I’ll have wings like butterflies 

The bitter truth sounds insane
Blends of electronic elements 
Mesh makes perfect sense distasteful
Nestled neatly prim and graceful
Kept in the dark where it’s unfair
Wake me lest I vanish in thin air
In my dream a translucent permanence
I stand alone and have woken an evanescence
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
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Form: Ekphrasis

My Yard the Fruit Bouquet

My Yard the fruit bouquet By Weston Gregory

Its gonna be that day again, 
when the sunshine reveal the morning
And makes you smile,
To watch a petal opening its fragrant scent 
drawing you right in

Atop the dew on a leafy limb, flying fast a humming bird pause;
Then whiz, again passing your eyes glistening and the feelings 
Breathtaking

I’m foliage free but my yard isn't like me
From its height a pear,
A heart shape avocado dotting about the sour sop
Could not have its tangy sweetness retract
Its skin like a spiky hat

Bread fruit, mango custard and hanging just a stretch
Planted for a next man to get
The fruit none other than the sweet sop
Barely can you refuse the bumpy look its got
None the nectar that have anything on that

All year round sight and scent of hibiscus, water lily, Cercee 
And orchid
All but make our glad bag bust
That though elusive
Such bouquet can be found in our yard its beauty an 
Added bonus

Premium Member Childhood Summer Album

Since my childhood, I love summer 
It wakes up in me a dreamer.
The luring bells of the ice-cream seller,
Made me gaze for him at the street corner
Till noon, across the fields, used to wiggle
Enjoy lunch with granny’s spicy mango pickle
Sidling along the rows of swishing trees 
Running after humming dragon- flies
Picking plums tactfully from thorny bushes
Wondering in the widespread lushes
Rolling on the dunes of soft sands
At tranquil brook, collecting shiny shells
Dancing merrily in pre-monsoon rains
Vying with friends for the white balls of hailstones
Sleeping in the midst of the lawn
Enjoying the sweet breezes of Night queen
Listening to the epic stories of mom
Under the canopy of stars that gleam
Eyes running through the maze of stars
Drooping slowly into deep slumbers


The Good Old Days Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose 
Date: 16-01-2021
won: 8th position

a part of truth

Everyone must discover the truth,
Watching a small red cargo ship move away
From the port of Brest, slowly
By unmasking the young man who walks
Without fear of passing people,	
Ignoring the baker in love with his wife
Without talent, ignoring his warm bread,
Everyone must discover what is behind 
The devastated tropical forest,

Everyone must discover the truth, so difficult
Sitting on a bench facing the Atlantic Ocean,
By drinking without an ideal, wine from the slopes of Provence,
Everyone must discover the truth, by looking at the accident
From a car on the rainy road,

Everyone must discover the truth, so essential,
Opening the wardrobe of his old parents,
Crouching down to eat a mango
In an unhealthy port of Kenya,
Losing a game of poker with friends from childhood,
Everyone must discover the truth, looking at the desert caravans,
You can’t live without hiding your face, you can’t live
Face uncovered.   

Chacun doit découvrir la vérité,
En regardant s’éloigner un petit cargo rouge
Du port de Brest, lentement
En démasquant le jeune homme qui marche
Sans rien craindre des passants,	
En ignorant le boulanger amoureux de sa femme
Sans talent, de son pain chaud,
Chacun doit découvrir ce qui se cache derrière 
La forêt tropicale dévastée,

Chacun doit découvrir la vérité, si difficile
En s’asseyant sur un banc face à l’océan Atlantique,
En buvant sans idéal,  le vin venu des coteaux de Provence,
Chacun doit découvrir la vérité, en regardant l’accident
D’une automobile sur la route pluvieuse,

Chacun doit découvrir la vérité,  si essentielle,
En ouvrant l’armoire de ses vieux parents disparus,
En s’accroupissant pour manger une mangue
Dans un port insalubre du Kenya,
En perdant une partie de poker avec ses amis
D’enfance,
Chacun doit découvrir la vérité, en regardant les caravanes du désert,
On ne peut vivre sans cacher son visage,  on ne peut vivre
À visage découvert.

Premium Member Everything's Perfect

Everything’s Perfect
                      by Odin Roark

Rio’s open market day
Bag fillin’
Day old mango and limes
Under tarpaulins-sweating

Tank topped ladies
“Baratas Baratas”
The call for cheap cheap
Bananas on barbed iron
Catching high noon light
Pleading to be eaten
But browning at mach speed

Two teenage girls
Gathered food in bags
Off to sell their own produce
Flesh made servile for men

Men’s every day refusal to pay for love
Lessons learned painfully early
Little goes as they’d like
Unless of course
They aspire to nothing

Back in cardboard city
The mangos prove over ripe
But the limes squirt their juices
Splattering beautiful eyes
Making thankful tears of joy
Another day’s survival

Many believe
Everything’s perfect
Whatever that be
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.

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