They're called Crisps not Chips
Across the Atlantic ocean
They have a pedantic notion
Quip us Brits have a frantic lisp
Did slip..meant to say chip not crisp
Semantic antics causing a commotion
Misunderstand our land’s devotion
To the sensory explosion that is a crisp
So why the linguistic demotion
Respond to across the pond & beyond
Have donned a wig of blonde
Seem fond of being conned
They need
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Categories:
potatoes, food,
Form: Rhyme
Howlin' Like The Wolf
We're goin' out to Idaho where the potatoes grow
honey we're leavin' quite soon
but if you call it quits then I've had my chips
and like the wolf I'll be a-howlin' at the moon
I'm over this Sunshine State yeah I can hardly wait
baby we're leaving at noon
but if you say 'No way!' and you wanna stay
like the
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Categories:
potatoes, animal, fun, howl, humor,
Form: Rhyme
SMASH POTATOES-
Culinary creativity
and experimentation
"Smashed potatoes...
I garnish them basil
Partially douse in salt"
Sensory delight
and pleasure
"Boredom in the water...
Popped and butter
What a tasty substance"
Joy and satisfaction
"Numb, numb yum mashed
Creative and playful
Expression of culinary delight
And the joy of cooking
3/22/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2024
Scriptural reinforcement
- 1 Corinthians 10:31: "So
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Categories:
potatoes, adventure, appreciation, creation, food,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
potatoes, food,
Form: Monoku
Irish Farewell
O'Rourke has left Ireland with all he owns in a knapsack.
He is going to America with sunshine at his back.
The Irish soil is dotted with potatoes now turned black.
O'Rourke has left Ireland and he is never coming back.
Amongst the rotting potatoes, a seed has begun to sprout.
On the stem shall a four leaf clover grow,
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Categories:
potatoes, goodbye, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Lumpy mashed potatoes
as much as she whipped
never could get the lumps out
meal time at Grandma's
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Categories:
potatoes, food, grandmother,
Form: Senryu
Meat and Potatoes
I got tired of losing
So much goddamn losing
Losing friends
homes
Hobbies
Moving to new towns and cities
Familiar faces of people I never met
Those who lived for years in the same place
They had their cliques
They got each other’s jokes
They knew what was on the next page
Mr. Jones down at the corner store knew them all by name
The bus driver
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Categories:
potatoes, 6th grade, abuse, angst,
Form: Free verse
Potatoes In a Pretty Blue Dish
The potatoes are cooling in a pretty blue dish.
Looking like hillside stones or sleeping piglets.
While waiting for the litter to cool off.
I thought about the many wars being fought...
On our beautiful blue planet of the newly forsaken.
Millions of innocent lives selfishly taken.
How much money and time have been wasted.
Lobbing bombs into robin egg
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Categories:
potatoes, food, war,
Form: Free verse
Plantin' Garlic and Potatoes
Plantin' the Garlic and the Potatoes
I can only Hope in the Heirloom Tomatoes
The Daisies push up well past the Day
With Evan Porter sleepin' outside in the Fray
Charlie ' s in a row out at the plant
And Grandma Moses is lookin' for Dry Land
The Ocean washes up the Effervescent Shore
And taxes those who bore
And set out
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Categories:
potatoes, 8th grade, abuse, age,
Form: Abecedarian
Potatoes Forever If You Ask Me
My favorite vegetable is a potato
I will eat it fried, filleted, with salt and pepper.
Bring me butter
That won’t be enough
Some people add cheese.
I am not interested in that, unless it is cheddar
shaved, on the top of sour cream and chives.
Yes, I love a baked potato loaded and potatoes scalloped
I adore French fries, also made from
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Categories:
potatoes, food,
Form: Free verse
Potatoes and Mushrooms
Potatoes And Mushrooms
Fries are not only deep-fried sticks to which nothing permanent connects
But also, what happens when a person makes some serious mistakes.
And a way to eat however many potatoes a person wants to in one sitting
Even
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Categories:
potatoes, food, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Couch Potatoes
Couch potatoes never see the light,
Seldom produce real potatoes,
Or much else that is palatable.
They leave switches on 24 seven,
And don't know what is the purpose of an off switch,
Resulting in bed sores,
Though they seldom get as far as the bed.
It is only the sight of grandchildren,
That is likely to shift them,
Into second gear,
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Categories:
potatoes, analogy, baptism, care, celebration,
Form: Burlesque
Mole Finds His Eyes and Plants Potatoes
Mole would have been a gardener,
but he just couldn’t see.
He was consigned to dig and dig
and wander aimlessly.
But then a woodland faerie
popped him upon the snout,
gave him a bulbous brownish thing,
told him to let it sprout.
She said, when you can feel the shoots,
then cut it into chunks,
and bury them deep in the ground,
and wait a
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Categories:
potatoes, animal, fantasy, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Tender Falls the Rain
Wishing some times
turns sunshine to rain
Tender falls the rain
as i speak your name
don't waste my time
tryna break my heart
you knew the outcome
from the very start
Love me Tender
Never wanna let me go
sappy love songs
Sh*t thought I let you knoiw
Aint wanting hurt
don't like bruised feelings
got look into who
and what I'm dealing with
Tender falls the rain
as i
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Categories:
potatoes, art, culture, music,
Form: Ballade
Ursai's Plunder
Words of evening she speaks
To him
I act if I don't know
There in secret places
Is where they wish to go
Mornings were I labor most
To be neat and clean
She wholloes beneath him
To be spiteful and mean
Yeah than when separation
Is the antidote
I am all he has
It's when I mean
As much
Love of Mendini by Mukhon Strativerous
Sexy Compositions
Meatus Arrangements
Compositions
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Categories:
potatoes, age, city, devotion,
Form: Ballade
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