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Breadfruit Poems - Poems about Breadfruit

Premium Member Facing Poverty
... If I went barefoot for a lifetime, shoes would be pointless. Toes ate board, concrete, grassland, shoreline. Me, Tarzan to pedicurist! ~ <>...

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Categories: breadfruit, africa, appreciation, black love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This year was a tough Year for me
...Our river runs low, unlike in Barbados, where rain graces the small island, turning it into a tropical paradise. Green pastures thrive, an a breadfruit can sustain a poor man throughout the year, w......

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Categories: breadfruit, addiction, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
...Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mou......

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Categories: breadfruit, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Twelve Days of Christmas, Hawaiian Style
..."Just live a little, Hawaiian style!" Quote by Hawaiian Style Band. On the first day of Christmas, my tutu gave to me, -- (and...) a-*Ne-ne-Goose-un-der-a-gua-va-tree. (guava fruits are t......

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Categories: breadfruit, animal, bird, care, environment,
Form: Lyric
Ho Xuan Huong English Translations from the Vietnamese
...Ho Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. She has been called the BEST Vietnamese poet, a proto-feminist, and "the candid voice of a liberal female in a male-dominated society." ......

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Categories: breadfruit, animal, body, heart, nature,
Form: Free verse



Jamaica At 60
...There is no place like home I represent the black, green and gold. Out of many, we are one people, driven to succeed Global excellence is our only mission to achieve. Reggae and danceha......

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Categories: breadfruit, celebration, hero, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
I Want To Go Home
...The melody of love sways in the evening breeze even the barking dogs move to its beat. Tranquility nestled in paradise only found in sweet St. Mary Passion and pleasure found a home inside of m......

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Categories: breadfruit, blessing, courage, desire, i
Form: Blank verse
The River Is Flowing
...The remnant of last year’s summer bash lays bear on the ground Staring at me without a smile or a frown, they just looked at me sitting on the big rock on the other side of the river The make shif......

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Categories: breadfruit, community, courage, education, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
A Floating Market On the River
...Floating Market on the River A Thailand tradition Large sun umbrellas And boat roofs or hoods And Asian conical hats A bucket of cracked brown egg shells A grandma quickly whips up Eg......

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Categories: breadfruit, fishing, food, garden, money,
Form: Free verse
Education
...Education grows into a market, where parents invest with avarice. They want a doctor or an engineer, not a man, in return. Artistic sense and athletic spirit are asphyxiated. Teachers ar......

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Categories: breadfruit, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grubbing
...Adjusting Appetizing Palates. I have sampled the variety, I am the one who has tasted life; The one who has had a taste of life. Rarely indulged in the main course- Seldom a full meal- I come h......

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Categories: breadfruit, appreciation, food, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sea Sand Odyssey
...Saturated with fish fry smells, Bar-B-Cue smoke, rodeo dust and sounds of deep water blues, with teasing frothing lace spread on the shore, Gulf Coast birth breeze blew winds in sails to Caribbe......

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Categories: breadfruit, analogy, imagery, journey, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Poetized Babies
...POETIZED BABIES While beauty sleeps, there are souls upon this earth that have never known her in her full beauty. Many seasons have passed and her eyes are still shut. She is hiding behind pav......

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Categories: breadfruit, corruption, destiny, earth, feelings,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member While Beauty Sleeps
...While Beauty Sleeps While Beauty sleeps, there are souls upon this earth that have never known her. Many seasons have passed and her eyes are still shut. She is hiding behind pavements of tar an......

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Categories: breadfruit, beauty, drug, nature,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Expatriate
...EXPATRIATE… (Apropos Soon Come) Heard the chichi budo singing in the banana walk; heard the burro braying; and the mongoose roaming the coop; smelled the aroma of roast breadfruit, acke......

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Categories: breadfruit, anxiety, conflict, desire, home,
Form: Prose Poetry

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