The Mooncake Festival
...Far away from home, I found another home in Taiwan
Today all family members come together
Eat pomelo
Make a pomelo hat to turn bad luck into good
The smell from the pomelo hat is very energizing...
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Categories:
mung bean, culture, moon,
Form: Free verse
At An Asian Supermearket
...A throat tickling ambience
of chili garlic sauce
settles over rows of Mung Bean paste
and bottles of oyster sauce.
Then clumsily
I knock over and break a glass jar
of hot curry powder.
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Categories:
mung bean, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Turmoil and Pain
...You’re always in my thoughts Jitterbug,
Your memory will never fade.
We had so many great times together.
Fond memories that we made.
Remember when we went camping in the van,
And you referred t...
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Categories:
mung bean, best friend, cousin, death,
Form: ABC
A Precious Gift
...A little girl came wandering out
She was dressed up to the nines
Like a mung bean munching hippy
But her father claimed she was divine.
She glowed and preened, with a smile of joy
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Categories:
mung bean, encouraging, growth,
Form: Rhyme