Long Vegetable soup Poems

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A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
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     “Who is this child?” he whispered to...

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...Two plus two equals four...

I've often wondered,

...four plus four equals eight...

as I look back on my life,

...eight plus eight equals..., and so on,

if the sum of my experiences
is the essence of who I am.
Is that...

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Open up the Mask Drawer Please

I cackled delight as I opened up my mask drawer.
Naughty Wednesday mask was on top. It had a permanent stamp on it that said “Call in sick.”
Wednesday is the longest...

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I wake to a monochrome world and I yawn
The reds, greens and yellows awaiting the dawn
Out on the water, my luminous float
Rides unseen ripples in fear of no boat

This morning my roof is my fishing...

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Abasiama
what are you?
An Angel?
A goddess?
what have you done to me?

What Is It?
Can I express  the feeling?
The puff feeling from wraps of Marijuana.
The feeling of cold bath on a sunny day.
I am a victim over...

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Darkness overcomes me as the night slowly settles in, 
What’s left of the light seems to hurt my eye’s, I’ve  over worked my body again, I need 
to….Relax.

I slowly strike the match on the...

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I can still smell Mom's homemade soup on the stove,
she always had a pot simmering for us kids to welcome us home;
it was made in this huge soup pot which I inherited,
old, and dinged...

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Ajoke
  ...... to my Ajoke,  to your ajoke
 
It was at oja ale I first saw you
Your smile that day ajoke 
Robbed me of my timidity
And I forgot of my reticence 

When I...

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Caleb Smith's “Echoes of the Heart” has inspired me to recall those halcyon days long ago on the frozen ponds of my youth.

It was hockey from early morn to the darkening shades of late afternoon...

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It was hockey from early morn to the darkening shades
 of late afternoon with only a short break for a quickly devoured 
Campbell's Vegetable Soup for lunch. My closest friend was Ken.
You very rarely saw...

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It don’t really matter   

If Plaster of Paris is not made in France
If Ginger and Fred never learned how to dance
If shoestring potatoes don’t grow in a shoe
It don’t really matter because I...

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Small town grocery stores nowadays are very rare indeed,
But in simpler times they supplied a family's every need.
As a Hoosier lad, I worked in Mr L B Owen's Grocery Store,
In charge of absolutely nothing, but...

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"Chidinma"
Your name is celestial like Manna!
I have not forgotten the way you taste
Nor did the flavour left my savouring mouth.
Honey is sweet,
Sugar is sweet...yet don't taste the same!
Don't ask me why
My mind have refused to...

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The rise and fall of great mice.
A string on the tail let loose and set free.
The reach from here to there is one step.
A trampled mouse in the underground protected community.
Catches attention with the democrats.
It...

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Green peas and all kinds of beans
are split open to release their seeds,
like those peas in a green pod,
that mother cooked in a huge pot!


One of my dad's friends who wore a veteran's brooch, 
would...

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Craziest Time at the Time of Spilled Soup

I spilled a bowl of vegetable soup – 
 Slipped on the shiny waxed floor;
The scene I saw made my muse utter expletives – 
 Fainting in horror...

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Grandma’s house is gone, part of my childhood too
Leaving only memories and a sense of feeling blue
Progress can’t replace the happiness and joy
That dwelt inside my heart when I was a little boy
Coal stove in...

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Grateful to God* for deliverance from anosmia
I praise Him for the pleasant breath of life 
midst jubilant smelling optimization 
oozing with wondrous delights...

On a restful day of redolent vibrancy, my nose is greeted
by minty scent...

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The growin seasons over
The weathers getting colder
Makes one think of hot tea and soup
Takes the chill out of the bones
Makes a home feel like home
Chase it down with something eighty proof
You might call it a...

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Once upon a time many years ago
There lived animals as big as a house
We call them dinosaurs so we will know
Not to confuse them with some little mouse

One time a baby dinosaur was born 
To...

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Summertime, summertime
And homemade vegetable soup
This is no place for fruity loops
Only foods from the garden that rhyme

Oh! Give us soup in the summertime
One writes tomatoes, another squash
Another corn with peppers by gosh
End with dessert a...

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Thank You Mama For Holding Me Ever So Close

Mama come and hold me ever so close
Comfort me as only you know how so
Read to me ever so softly cause I can't sleep
Please prepare warm up...

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Got an ice cream cone in one hand
While typing with the other
Why does ice cream make us seniors
Beg for another and another!

Isn't ice cream only for kiddies?
Wow! That's surely not the case
Old folks can down...

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Got an ice cream cone in one hand
While typing with the other
Ice cream creates contented old seniors
Drooling on our nighties as we hover

Isn't ice cream meant just for kiddies?
Wow! That surely isn't the case
Old folks...

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AFFLACK was so bored with his LIFE ON THE DOCK
thought he'd rather leave, than stay there with the flock.
With a waddle and a quack, Afflack "flew the coup"
to wander and explore and eat VEGETABLE SOUP.

Afflack...

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