The Chinese Vendor
The Chinese Vendor
A market in Hungary
Hatvan city
I remember an old man
Poor man. Good man
Chinese
He came every weekend
With his suitcase
Full of Chinese products
He sold those
Poor man
But great man
He was a trader
Mentally
Rich man
Business
Man
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Categories:
vendor, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
The lame buttermilk vendor
I waited alone in a lonely spot in the morning, Under the shade of a huge banyan tree,
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Categories:
vendor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Her vegetable vendor
Her vegetable vendor, ‘a nice man’,
Known for his wile nor sly, rather for smile,
Unaware of his cunning and sly guile,
Who proved the point: it pays to please a fan.
He was game to bid a round of bargains,
For return of tomatoes raw or ripe,
Brinjals less brown and onions
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Categories:
vendor, wife,
Form: Narrative
A Vendor of Ice Cream
Vendor of Ice cream calling clients;
gangs slapped her and took her objects.
She screamed on the road,
her voice was not heard.
She thought that they were pickpockets.
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Categories:
vendor, imagery,
Form: Limerick
Be Soft On the Feminine Gender
There are services Ruth can’t render
Because clearly she is quite tender
And you have no right of A Bender …
I mean, Ruth may try a News Vendor
Or your car wash only its fender
Or your shoes keep leaving with Mender
And in your kitchen with A Blender …
Never forget that Ruth is slender
And of The Feminine
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Categories:
vendor, care, love, women, work,
Form: Rhyme
Love Potion Vendor
A vendor of proven love potions
never gives into emotions
Told: I need a soul mate!
He quips: Twelve ninety—eight!
I also sell draft beer and lotions
2/2/22
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Categories:
vendor, humor,
Form: Limerick
Custard Apple Vendor
I look at the green crocodile balls placed in handcrafted bamboo basket
They look ripe and tempting.
The snake skinned vendor looks at me with hopeful eyes
His turtle legs skin with every vein visible is a testimony of many days of hunger
He wears a wrinkled robe of silk over them
His brahminy blindsnake skin glistens in
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Categories:
vendor, 10th grade,
Form: Imagism
Poet Is Not a Vendor Is a Creator
Write poetry but don't be a vendor,
be poet is not being a mercenary
don't settle for such a standard
you are poet and unmercenary
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Categories:
vendor, allusion, appreciation, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Quatrain
Elephant's Ghost
This poem is a re-post from last year for the situation is worsening daily.
ELEPHANT’S GHOST
I am represented as a trinket on a
Human's wrist.
I was bought from a vendor,
Sometime last September,
I remember the vendor, he was,
Approached by a man in the street,
This man had stepped out of the shadows,
The vendor to meet.
The man from the
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Categories:
vendor, death,
Form: Rhyme
Fruit Vendor John
Fruit vendor John was polishing his pomegranates
The green piece of clean poplin was kissing warmly
He once rubbed the pinkish crust with the soft cloth
Would then look at it with a mild pomegranate-care
Is he looking himself into a mirror, I was wondering
Dissatisfied he would now collect a piece of muslin
That too as I saw got into
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Categories:
vendor, life, people,
Form: Free verse
The Mcwhirtle Vendor
Leonardo The Loyal,
Slow silence lowering but
Who where we to know,
Flowing and pouring, pouring
Purple and royal his chin,
As crochet vines, looming
luxuriously, pennys as payment
Selling everything, the black agent
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Categories:
vendor, betrayal, hyperbole,
Form: McWhirtle
Beer and Hotdog Vendor
There once was a beer and hotdog vendor
He was named Sam, but then he changed gender
His peers were confused
The fans were amused
Now he's Sam, the Gender-Blender Vendor
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Categories:
vendor, silly, sports,
Form: Limerick
A Street Vendor
The sun is up, heat unbearable,
He stands there rejected and miserable,
Slowly hope he loses,
as every potential buyer refuses.
His goods remain unsold,
His misery untold.
Swiftly the night approaches,
And his hunger encroaches.
He packs up and leaves,
Despite everything, he calmly sleeps...
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Categories:
vendor, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor In Mylapur
Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur
Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur*
Set up shop (O!) Brahmin virtue pure
No hungry customers
Knocked past the front shutters
Though brisk business raged at rear door.
• Brahmin enclave in Chennai, Tamil-Nadu, India.
Brahmins were not vegetarians from antiquity.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
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Categories:
vendor, humorous, religion,
Form: Limerick
A Vendor
I do not know his name
But always like to watch
He is a small vendor of betel leaf
At my village market
Never he wears a shirt and footwear
Monday and Saturday, the market runs
The Saturday market is my favorite
Always I will be there on Saturday
To buy and sell my cows and calves
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Categories:
vendor, life,
Form: Free verse
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