No. 09 Poetry Post | Avocado and Grapes

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Avocado

The avocado is a fruit with much adaptability.
It can be used in many ways because of this facility.
Without the skin and inner pit it can be eaten wholly.
When mashed it turns itself into delicious guacamole.
Sliced it gives to any salad a touch of sophistication
And chopped, it brings a tasty start to a gazpacho creation.
Although it has a lot of fat, it meets the healthful trend
Because its fat is omega-3 which doctors recommend.
What’s good about avocado use I think I’ve fairly covered,
But hope you’ll find more positives that aren’t yet discovered.

 

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Grapes

Grapes when born have colors they did not choose.
There’s red, and white, and black and more you’ll find.
But it’s what’s inside that really matters, not the hues.
And that is how it should be with our human kind.

 

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Why Davy loves Avocado and Grapes :

“Among some of those I’ve met who take poetry (too) seriously, nothing seems to be frowned upon more, within poems, than rhyming or humor. I love all kinds of poetry, so this view has always seemed a bit narrow to me. After all, it was brilliant, playful rhyme-masters like Shel Silverstein who’d excited me about the possibilities of poetry in the first place.

Food is a crucial and often under-recognized part of our daily lives, and when my dad published Marvin Brandwin’s delightful book “A Smorgasbord of Verse,” I found myself utterly charmed by Brandwin’s paeans to even the simplest types of grub. His keen and subtle eye for details of tastes and textures brings each food’s unique richness leaping to life. Oddly, it turns out that his book is also a great bathroom read (which i consider a real compliment). There’s something both strange and pleasing about gobbling down a few poems about food while leaving your own digested treasures behind.”

 

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WHEN MY ORIGINAL PLEA FOR POEMS WENT OUT, THE VERY DELICIOUS DAVY ROTHBART, who also happens to be the genius behind the FOUND magazine empire, sent me an email asking for a list of my favorite foods. A few weeks later, a beautifully annotated series of poems about avocados and grapes and some of my other favorite foods arrived on my doorstep. For, it seems that Davy’s dad, Hal, has set up a small printing press in Ann Arbor Michigan, where courtesy of the local copy store, he publishes the work of his pals, many of them retired professors from the hood, and sets up little tables at local books fairs and sells them. The poems Davy sent were from the hand of ninety year old, retired professor, Marvin Brandwin’s latest poetry collection, “A smorgasbord of verse.” They warmed my heart on many levels and I hope they warm yours too; and if you are thinking about chanukah-chrimbo-quanza presents right now, Marvin’s collection is a perfect stocking stuffer. Contact details under the poet spotlight; drop charing cross publishing a line and tell them Poetry Post sent you. They’ll treat you right.

XOXO
nicola

 

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