Short Nut Tree Poems

The nut tree stood by the side of the road 
displaying her wealth to every man. 
Who marveled at her beauty 
with casting stones in hand....

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Limerick : Once a typsy Toddy-Tapper took Wench

Once a typsy Toddy-Tapper took Wench
Up coco-nut tree with monkey wrench
He pumped her full toddy
Till Wench was tight giddy
But she hung on to ? nuts with wrench.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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Gaining weight has always been easy for me.
I’m having a Zoom lesson today at a quarter ‘til three.
First you’ll have to go on a grocery shopping spree.
Buy gobs of salty sweet things, all the junk food you see.

Here’s a test if in this class you want to join and be.
Can you see your tummy? Still see one knee?
Here is what I’ll accept as part of my teaching fee.
A bucket of sugar nuts from a Macadamia nut tree....

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Myrtle was a wise woman with the soul of many.
We watched and marveled, she seemed about twenty.
How does she stay young? A young stranger asked me.
She drinks the wine from the Sugar Nut Tree.

Where do I find it? Stranger asked, wanting to know.
It is found on January sixteenth, under six feet of snow.
Is it everywhere or just where the snow is deep and blue?
We were on a roll, so I said “I have a bridge to sell you.”...

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