Short Mandarin Poems

Italian risotto
A welsh rarebit
Californian salad
with Hoolandaise sauce
Mandarin gateaux
with Swedish
Toast!...

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Barnacles Soundless Dream


sun travels elsewhere 
calm mandarin orange sea 
barnacles embrace

8/5/2018...

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When questioned about chinese,
I affirmed my expertise.
And so I sought to learn more,
Having known nothing before....

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Beautiful, striking
Unmistakably coloured
The Mandarin duck




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My darling Clementine
Thought you were a satsuma
Or maybe mandarin
Did not mean to presume a
Variety, you cutie
Ambrosia made with halos
By whatever name you go
You orange little beauty...

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segment of the sun
lemandarin, semi-black
‘midst toasty branches
floats flamingos, flaming pink
in lagoon’s brackish parquet


*hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon
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dystopian world
where Mal and Jane do battle,
speak mandarin, flee
once caught on a summer night
Serenity glows no more

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for the Firefly Tanka Poetry Contest
sponsored by JCB Brul
written on 03/09/2022
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It always makes me pain.
My mother’s scissors.
It’s an either-or situation
She cuts my old photos up into small pieces,
Or stir you into the mixture.
Whether or not it’s true
How could it interpret
These actions as love
Or the other kind of concession...

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The edges of an eclipsed
sun give birth in broken 
shocks of light 
to day love and life

We lift ourselves
to yawning 
blades of grass near
an ocherous tree 
raised by the mountains
beside us

Into an infinity 
of yes as our
wings fall away 
in the ultimate flight 
immersed in the 
syrup of our
mandarin universe


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      Come with me to my Shangri-La
      My satin, azure, kimono
      floating in soft waves across the
      floor
 
      Don' t hesitate for a second
      You'll find majestic delights herein
      Jasmine tea, and mandarin, me
      Our yet to be Shangri-La ecstasy

      June 29, 2019
      10:30pm PST
      
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when i see a mexican dragging a cart full of refuse
I say gracias espera voy regresar con una bolsa con gusto
por usted and if chinese I do not speak mandarin or cantonese
and just a yo will do as I am not choosy to feed your children
a world for us to share babu in a taxi and so hello good by
see you tomorrow in my dreams as they are vivid hubber...

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here becomes there if one adds a T
and where when one adds a W
and zher, which is ‘here’ in Mandarin  
if one removes an E and adds a Z
which rhymes with V
though some pronounce it Zed
which rhymes with Ted
which brings us back to T 
almost nothing rhymes with W
but I really want to do U 
and make S rhyme with X
and you know Y.


12/18/2020 - updated 1/1/2021...

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Can campy cavorting canines cajole curious cats?
Bickering birdbrains boast between bogeyman’s bats….
Honorably heavenly heifers heighten historical hats,
Manageable Mandarin manatees make moody Michigan maps.
Neutralizing Nebraskans needing normal noontime naps.
Flamboyantly flipping fleshy flannel flea-flipping flatfish flaps.
Can campy cavorting canines cajole curious cats?...

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This is claimed by Mandarin
Chicken, garlic, salt, pepper, 
Join in these heady flavours, 
To showcase a stock.

Saute the shreds in butter,
In stock, add cornflour, steam hot,
Thicken lightly, oops! It's done,
A toast to palate.


P.S-Two strings of Dodoitsu.A dodoitsu is a Japanese  poem of 26 syllables....4 lines of 7775 each.
Sponsor: Cindi  Rockwell
Contest: My poetry Soup Recipe.
Date-31/1/2017
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A mandarin heart

Small and stronger

Breathing in muscles

Protected by bone

It's the believing heart

That fights stronger to her knees those dreary days

When the moon is just a fear

When the ship wishes to hide from those eerie seas


A heart so sweet with little sourness

Just enough to deal with the segments of life

It's the mountain of hope that keeps the beat dancing

It's the journeys unknown that broadens the shoulders intuitively
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Do you out there in the darkness revise your work?  
I usually do
Rhyme once rules 
Not in these days
Some prefer the old style of poetry 
Some enjoy modern work
Some like poetry of their ethnic group
Like some like novels of their ethnic group
I have read work of other ethnic groups
Or not?
I know some Hebrew, a few phrases in Mandarin 
and a liitle Spanish
Do poets writing in these languages revise or rhyme? 
Some probably do - some don't 
Make up your own mind about that poets!...

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