Short Plantain Poems

rattlesnake plantain
pretty sunny flower spikes
beautiful orchid...

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monkeys all around
plantain trees feel within them ---
hullabaloo
...

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Purple vetch and ribwort plantain
Jostle lush clover in English rain....

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Purple vetch and ribwort plantain
Jostle lush clover in English rain

Dogrose dotted on a briared sprawl
prickly as it meandrs tall

Speaking volumes of words,unheard
Spring,flowers,in which all senses merge...

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Eat me as cheeps
Boil me as food
Either green or yellow
I grow every where
Green when unripe
Yellow when ripe
I give you suckers for the 
Future
Give me nine months
I  give you
Fruits yes fruits
Plenty of it
Some to sell
Some to eat....

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The fruit is tasty
So different in taste
looks like a banana
Yet its not the same

A banana just eat
Plantain must be cooked
Once its golden brown
It is ready to eat

Any time of day
It does not matter
A delightful treat
I often enjoy...

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The incendiary wick
of a lemon afternoon
flickers in the lime lagoon
as sunset breathes fire,
tangerine scorching
lilting melon waters
until incandescence
drowns in dusk's indigo 
and coconut hills rise
to cerulean shadows,
when night whispers 
in plantain lanterns
swaying in the slender trees....

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A Dandelion lives as a Dandelion.
A Forget-not-me live as a Forget-not-me.
A Plantain lives as a Plantain.
A Plantain that live one Rough Earth
Can only grow Toughly,
But on an Oily Earth, it grows
In different style
With Deep – meaning and Sturdiness.
No matter what,
I don’t lose my Identity
And I continue to live as a Plantain.
I learn it here, that I have to
LIVE LIKE MYSELF....

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It visited me at last,
The one which I loath to call on,
Even for my worst enemy,
Like a plantain stem fallen on its sword on bed.
Trembling,shivering,
Unable to walk,
unable to sit,
unable to think,
Unable to breath,
Oh! the tip of my tiny hair follicles,
crying song of pain,
sure, I will come back strong,
But can't vanish without a note,
Goodnight PS,
At least for a fortnight....

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A small Native tree frog that is found in the fields of Puerto Rico.
Its color is Brown.  They are called Coqui by the onomatopoeia
sound mating call made by males. 

When is raining , their sound is heard wide spread.  Usually they can be founds 
in the leaves of plantain and bananas. A song called Coqui® was sang by
the 1980's quintet called Menudo ®.









Nayda Ivette
10-29-2015...

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Weeds
                                pesky, noxious
                           reach, creep, agitate
              dandelions, plantain, tulips, daffodils
                        assemble, restore, thrive
                              sterling, arresting
                                         Buds












Diamante composed: May 5, 2021
Contest: Spring or Summer Diamante 
Sponsor: Caron Krutsinger...

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Familiar aroma oozes from the fry pan,
Secretion of enzymes makes me lick my lips,
Fried plantain and Jollof rice I love more than Dan,
Mum knows how to spice it well before she sleeps.

I rushed down to the kitchen without waiting,
I can`t miss my sumptuous rice after a game,
Mum sent me out to shower or I get nothing,
Fidgeting;hoping the quantity will be the same.


Contest:"A pleasant childhood Memory" sponsored by Sara Kendrick...

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The scalloped plantain
Shapes like a scallop
Leaves open up like a fan
Flat and wide
A remarkable landmark
Eye-catching and attractive
Frankly displaying
With no secrets hiding
Sincerely welcoming you
With open arms
Strikingly loyal
With supporting and compromising 
Raised hands
But sad to say
It's disappearing from the garden
People are too busy and unartistic 
To admire the surrounding
To appreciate the nature beauty 
To be grateful to God's creation...

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Caseworker: Yams and Plantain

	Cabrini-Green Housing Project
        Chicago

Bienvenido’s comin’ over,
says his wife, 
to ‘splain me

why the kids
have got no rice, 
no beans, 

how the landlord’s
shovin’ notes beneath 
the door again.

In Puerto Rico Bienvenido
dug up yams,
was paid in plantain,

came over here,
brought his wife,
then his kids.

First New York, 
then Chicago,
gave up yams, 

gave up plantain,
just to drum
and make a living.


Donal Mahoney...

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