Short Yam Poems

Yes sir, nice to see your blog entry.  Hope all is well...Regards, tom...

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Root a little sweet,
How precious are the violet,
Appetite is great....

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Popeye's Thanksgiving
   ~ I yam what I yam, Olive -- cuz I eats me spinach...

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Fresh from the farm field
Corn, mangoes, yam and tubers
Yield at my table....

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Stainless steel pot is bubbling
On top of the fire
Inside my tasty sour soup
Of onions, pork, yam
Tamarind and spice
A Pinoy
Treat!...

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Yam the ram is mean and a glutton
With his head he is always button
One day Yam Rammed Ewe
Ewe went in a stew
And since then they call Ewe mutton!...

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Pompous yam stuck his tummy out big and bold
It was not a young fresh belly, rather rotund and old.
He is so arrogant, he thought we would all like to see.
His rump-like rounded tummy; he’s full of idiocy....

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Pompous yam stuck his tummy out big and bold
It was not a young fresh belly, rather rotund and old.
He is so arrogant, he thought we would all like to see.
His rump-like rounded tummy; he’s full of idiocy.
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Younderward yokel yap
Yore Yorkshire yield yeager york-felow
Yak yiddle

Yammer yack yells
Yard yew yellows
Yellow-tails, Yellowhammers
Yonder yellowfin

Yellow yam yesterdays
Yuca, yogurt
Yesteryears years...

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Red potato
green potato
sweet potato
Yam
funeral potatoes
eggs and potatoes
mashed potatoes
Spam
baked potatoes
peeled potatoes
eat them
while you can
potato eyes
potato fries
potatoes au gratin
potatoes rotten
make potato jam...

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October ushers in autumn like no other month
when we see many mature fresh pumpkins, gourds, 
pomegranates, ripe dates, grapes, cranberry, yam.
in southern hemisphere, south of the Equator,
interesting to know mid October is mid spring season...

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(Gathering of thankful family and friends)
 
Time for a Thanksgiving feast
Hope you’re all hungry
There’s stuffed turkey finely browned,
pineapple glazed ham, salads,
Collard greens, hot breads…
Yam pudding, bundt cakes, 
Pies, and more		
Eat!...

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We three guys did the man thing,
No turkey wing or cranberry ring,
No corn on the cob nor fat ham,
Not a juicy pie or sugared yam,
Decided on a commoner meal,
And short trip behind the wheel;
"Get ready boys, if you please,
We're off to get some Chinese."...

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Yom HaShoah
(Holocaust Remembrance Day)

Sirens will ring in Israel
Small moment in time
To remember six million slaughtered

Has the world forgotten?
Is our memory so short?
Is history not taught?

The evil of antisemitism
Is raising its ugly head
Even in America
...

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Pot that cooks many tasteful souP
Over and over like love of crescendO
Enticing the lustful lost eyes to tastE
Tree with many branches like the tastemenT
Rendered in an unequal mouth, different thinkeR
Yam sliced by different hand yet very handY.


(C) John Chizoba Vincent
      Voice Of Vincent 2016...

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yam yam I went to the store to buy six eggs
and twelve cans of club soda
campari tomatoes smiling at me
I love my negroni and can make a mean martini
spinach came along to make a tortilla
mariposa a butterfly 
walking the street with my bag
they chant we love your tattoos
nothing like the shit we see today...

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For braving that stunning heap
You’re headed for a big reap
And have made a giant leap:
Into earth digging deep,
So that families won’t weep
Or hunger-driven to sleep,
Every wrought bulging heap…

A cause to into kitchens leap
And at same oiled yam beep:
A farmer feeding the rest
But-alas!- denying self rest....

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you cant use a knife
to weed a farm
you can use the cutlass
to peel a yam
it easier to cross the river
than to cross the sea
the tree of positivity
bears a fruit of liberty
and the tree of negativity
bears the fruit of abomination
to the righteous the beauty of life 
is to live perfection
so create no destruction
and cleave for devilish solution...

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Time
Baba baba black sheep 
Busy eating thyme
Returning back to home 
Wasting lot of time 

Tom has his exam
But busy drinking lime 
Or may be eating his yam
Wasting lot of time

Police caught a thief 
For he did a crime
Robin is busy singing rhyme
Did not get his food!! 
Wasting lot of time!

All these who suffered 
Did not know what was time?
Remember time is a prime!!...

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I am waiting
For the colonists’ offspring
To see.

See what’s already there.
Been there decades,
hundreds and thousands of years.

Brewarrina.  Birrngi-Bream.
Condah.  Tuupuurn-Galaxis.
Bolac.  Smoked eels.

Curly Mitchell Grass.
Nodding Greenhoods.
Yam Daisy-Murnong.

Budj Bim.
World Heritage.
Right here!

Dark Emu.
Read it.
Grasp the future.

Don’t wait.
Act.
Thrive....

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A face worse than Traffic Jam!
Charles badly wants to melt Sam:
The Man to before Men slam
And him cause to board a tram…

Charles had been by choice A Clam
But he sure hits like A Bam!
And can hands down beat Sam;
With or without eating Yam
With not glucose his guts cram…

“One thing to tell you Champ Sam:
For me you slaughter a ram
Or I shall your river dam;
The World show you weigh less gram!”...

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Not too bright
Kind'a dumb,
Always sucking
On his thumb

Dim mind using
Dim ideas
Pretty slow
Too dumb for tears

Sittin' in the corner
Turkey gizzard neck,
Wondering why,
Oh, what the heck!

Can't fly no more,
Well,.... never could...
Turkey breast,
On his car hood

Back to the barnyard
Feathers fly
That silly rooster
Wondered why

Stovetop stuffing
Candied yam
Poor old turkey
Wished he was ham....

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If you’ll take your final exam
I’ll be the invigilator
Questions are big pieces of yam
You must understand to the core.

I’ll be the invigilator
To walk around every minute
Making sure that no one will cheat.

Questions are big pieces of yam
But don’t try to copy from friends
That will be your major offense.

You must understand to the core
Questions need to be read twice, thrice
Pray for wisdom, be honest guys!
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Hold your tears!
I do not want it,
my mind is made up.

Those crocodile tears
Can't cure this madness now!
What I want is looking at me.

Hold your fears woman!
Your song is a reproach to my dreams
War is a enough music to my marrow.

Give me freedom 
beyond this very lost land
then my heart shall dance.
I will rise against all odds
even when no cocoyam
and yam are seen in my barn.


©John Chizoba Vincent
From_A_Pen_Refusing_Frustration...

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There was once a young man from New York.
Who had often pigged out on roast pork.
'Til a pig said, "I yam
Such a  proud hunk of ham.
I refuse to end up on his fork."

11/20/14

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syllables 9, 9, 6, 6, 9

This is a new limerick written for contest
following required meter and with aabba rhyme
Hope this is what you want....

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