Long Plantains Poems

Rolly, rolling in shallow surf, every wave a wisp
that'll move me through this sticky sand to the lush land.
Lumbering, waterlogged, soggy heap in my tux,
arms flopping, flailing about, cool currents fill my ears;
mere vestige of...

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Sonny hid behind the melons 
In a busy Asian marketplace,
Near the plantains and the mangos 
Where the shadows could obscure his face.  
He inhaled the air around him 
And enjoyed the fragrant scent of...

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Grandma NiNi

We don’t know when 
But she’s at it again
By and by it rained 
A rumbling roar, 
Near deafening ,
Awakened grandma from her silence

A flicker of light crossed the sky 
And her words came to...

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CHAPTER 6 (e, continued)

Though without communication 
Spoken in symbolic language 
Their gorilla hosts perceived it
And made ready for the parting
 
In a solemn mood of sadness
All the hominids assembled
In the clearing in the jungle 
Where they had repulsed the...

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Thy arms are opened
                               ...

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4 CUPS OF PORK-BUTT SLICED
1/3 CUP OF CORNSTARCH AND 1/3 CUP OF WATER(MIXED)
1 CUP OF LIME JUICE
1/4 CUP OF CHILI PEPPERS(HOT)
1 CUP OF ONIONS (CUT INTO WEDGED PIECES AND BLANCED)
2 TABLESPOONS OF SOY SAUCE
1/4 HONEY
1/4...

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Let me tilt my top hat,
And put on a smile,
Let me courtesy and bow...
“Name’s Charlie”
“Welcome to my desire factory!”
Let your own mind illuminate
Rest of the journey,
Chocolates are obsolete,
My factory now reads
Your deepest desires!
So what you...

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Wide-faced baby still crossing her legs, 
Shivering inside her own mother’s womb,
Her parts stay hidden from the ultrasound’s cold, metal screening,
Warm pool of darkness heating up as kicking goes wild, 
Already moving through mother’s quick...

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Squirrel's squeaky squeal...!


It was a warm evening stroll 
along the bund of a canal;
The river flowing further away,
I used canal bund for my sway.
The muddy man-made track,
along the thickly wooded bank!
Many pleasant birds in sight,
going...

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Biff, the oboist


2 cups of pureed shrimp
1 cup of chopped turkey bacon
4 cups of flour (self rising)
1/4 cups of coconut flakes
3/4 cups of green onion
3 T celery seeds (toasted)
2 T sesame seeds (toasted)
5 Tablespoons of...

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Here, on the isle of plantains and regrets
the saplings were left in mocha soil.

Four silver stalks, grafted in lime,
upright in slippery shadows of coconut palms.

Brass insignia rings left intact at the base of each plant
along...

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Old Havana it's been a long, time,
since I felt your love.
 Your warm oceans, and island breeze,
Is never enough.

You soothe my soul with your calming seas,
 and your soft raindrops, make me
feel at ease.

I can...

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I twist and turn, I grasp and grab.
Is there any foothold?
Any crevice or jutting edge 
That my fingers may find lodgings?
The wind zips past me in cold blasts,
Sucking along what lil’ air my nostrils find.
I...

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At first we seemed to slope
Low and low, I thought we could drop
Then snaking through the hills, we
rose
And I imagined the valleys could close
Yes! This was the land of awe

I peered through the windows and
saw
The...

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POINT ZERO 

Birth slipped into fast flowing
rivers of patterned fissures 
her arching brows brazen 
searching sagaciously
microscoping every moment 
tangoing across thorny 
thickets 


Hope gazed at her prayer 
puzzle poised with pensive 
pencils plaintively planting
plantains for...

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We awakened to rhythms of beating drums
Shouting cadences through a low rising river fog
Young men talking to friends in distant villages
On the only telephones they have.

We marveled at their ingenuity, their creativity
The strange language only...

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He is the skin that covers my wounds
The air that surrounds the moon
I am his star
He is my night
He is the darkness on my plantains
That makes them so ripe and sweet
He is my eyes reflection
In...

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Everywhere known as the Red Hot,
For which it is also Near Not
You try it skin won’t like the spot
Awaits the eye the worse-than-blot…

Everywhere hated for its smoke,
Smoke sneaking into eyes not a joke;
In emergency tears...

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I see it in cubes cast
And chiefly featuring in breakfast;
In Bread and cake harboured
And in plantains and cereals honoured…

Also in my tea that would gullets pass through,
Its presence in oats holding true.

I see it in...

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Birds scatter away from the trees
                       as they blissfully sing in choruses.

Trees glow...

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The mother of plantains and holy thoughts
She shifted in the underbrush to avoid the 
guerilla
soldier's gunfire.

Still, now she is bones and a cross 
necklace.

"One day the evil will not rule and she will 
rise."
Un dia...

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they found altierrium there!
so much to share
everyone's there
hurray they say!
ya'll stop and stare.
personality and I like it
I like it
alterrium
alterrium.

Bee eh, bee eh, 
Bee Are eye dhee eh!
yeah
Be are eye de ehee
yeah!
yeah!
yeah!
dhey caul hurr
mealy jawbone
she could...

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