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Irish Potato Poems - Poems about Irish Potato


Mulatto the Alligator
...I've heard him sing: The Mulatto: By fat hotter than Roberto Like Pepper is to Pimento; Lost to him, too, one Alberto: The boy friend of Fine Talatu... Alto in all shows he goes to, Even when......

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Categories: irish potato, celebration, creation, devotion, people,
Form: Rhyme
No Longer Free To Go To a Market
...Impecunious news hunters on Oxford Avenue Craned over newspapers spread on the floor To gather ammunition about who knew The last gossip about a politician shown the door By hacks in his polit......

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Categories: irish potato, poems,
Form: Free verse



Irish Potato Famine
...'Twas a horrible thing called the blight, diseased potatoes a depressing sight, starvation begone, crossed over the pond, arrived Ellis Island future looks bright. 3-13-17......

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Categories: irish potato, food, ireland, moving on,
Form: Limerick
Fertile Crescent, Iii
...Fertile Crescent and Vestigial Conscience The sun overshadowing my morality my self- righteousness eclipsed Where early mans' dawn is, Our sun over my left *should* threaten to tinge me if I ponti......

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Categories: irish potato, america, angst, character, conflict,
Form: Epic
Irish Potato
...Me great, great, great-grand pappy-died His son, sailed away from fighting Ireland In the wake of the potato famine, sought land Farming his love, many sons his pride Irish potatoes-boiled, mashe......

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Categories: irish potato, family
Form: Limerick




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