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Mike T Aug 2014
Fire of your scent,
(one, two, step, three, four, step, dip)
eating at my soul
Matt Mar 2015
If you visit google's home page today
You will see a Japanese man
Examining noodles with a microscope
Hahaha

Thank you Momofuku Ando!
For inventing Top Ramen
Although not the healthiest choice

Here are the sodium levels for each flavor

Top Ramen Oriental Flavor-- 800 mg 33% daily value
Top Ramen Beef Flavor-- 760 mg 32 % daily value
Top Ramen Chicken Flavor-- 910 mg 38% daily value
Top Ramen Shrimp Flavor-- 860 mg 36% daily value
Top Ramen Picante Beef Flavor-- 780 mg 32% daily value
Top Ramen Chili Flavor-- 760 mg 32% daily value

If you are watching your sodium levels
Stay away from the chicken and shrimp flavors
Lol!

Many college students
Throughout the past few decades
Have relied on Top Ramen
As they crammed for their exams

I have even indulged
And enjoyed Top Ramen
Once or twice
During my early college years
Jeff Raheb Aug 2014
Havana, I arrive
in the sweaty thickness of July
caliente y picante
steamy sidewalks, steamy women
chocolate brown, tan and
black against the lemon-yellow walls
strolling through La Plaza de Armas
slurping thick café through weathered lips
in La Plaza de Francisco de Asis
dancing on the pregnant gray stones in La Plaza Vieja
timba, rumba, salsa and son
Cristo, Maria, Yemaya and Obatalá

Havana, I arrive
in the intoxication of your breath
between the acrid fumes
of insecticides and 1957 Chevy's
stepping past the dark grime of your slums
streets plush with tight round bodies
beautiful and sensuously swaying

I arrive snaking past the converted palaces
con las turistas ricos
and the buy-me-a-dress-and-a-ring ******
with their enchanting full-tooth smiles
and undulating earthquake-tremor hips
I hear your beat
the machine-gun laughter of your feet
on the hot cobblestones
with the jinateros and street musicians
chants of Santería drifting from pane-less windows

Havana, I smell your heat
under salty faded sheets
smell the long, tobacco-stained nights
with your hips swaying
to the pale drops of ***
spilt from red lips
and the red drops of blood
spilt from your revolutionaries
spilt from the gorging of Machado and Baptista
and 500 years of foreign dominion

In Paseo de Marti
banners of Che Guevara
flapping in the moist tear-laden breeze
Fidel, cigar in hand
tirelessly raging in black and white
on a Russian 1960's TV

Cuba, I can see the green in your eyes
the peeling-paint bedroom dreams and
dirt-poor joy of your richness
laughing out the despair and desperation
dancing out the oppression and the paucity
the aching of your past
the battles of Castillo De Los Tres Santos
of  the revolution
of living
and as I stand on the steps of El Capitolio
looking out at the decaying grandeur
I understand why
I will be back
Mary McCray Apr 2017
(NaPoWriMo Challenge: April 27, 2017)

I’ve done this ode many times before.
I was weaned on this ode
where appetite is for the appetizer
and salsa is the blood and guts
that feeds the baby. The spherical planet
of the tomato, reflecting sun on its skin,
cuts and bleeds a thick calming juice.
Smell is the trigger and the buds begin
to register the cool, salt taste
before a single drop rides the tongue.
The idiom of heat—a sliced green chile
or dark jalapeňo, the shape of dripping light,
the second planet of onion, severe and raw
like a crux, joins its sister pieces of earthy garlic.
The chopped pico de gallo is bright and primary—
through fusion, a picante smooth and criminal,
blood red with white seeds which will burn.
A small vessel of penance and grace.
Napowrimo 2017: Write a poem poem that explores your sense of taste.
Aseh Mar 2015
Is a werewolf locked
Inside of a heartbeat drum
A perpetual dance
Of unapologetic freedom
A tribal chant
A lick at your neck
An endless fiesta
Whistling through the window
Fat rolls of color, urging forth
Fires on the roofs
Embers burning bright
No lanes
Speeding and rushing
Murals of eternities painted on the city's cheeks
Abandonment of muscular restraint
Grains of salt on the rim
Limes, avocados, salsa verde, picante, roja
Burns in your esophagus
Corners of the mouth ablaze
***** warm air
Rushing in
Burns your eyes
Peculiar washroom smell
In irrelevant spaces
Plumbing creaks overhead
Christmas lights on terrace tops
Glass eyes seeing all
Swollen night
Bodies in heat and dark, all hands and sweat and breath
Give a hug to a toothless stranger
Who shows his gums as he swings from pole to pole
In front of the grand cathedral
Toll the bell
Fingers dipping in and out of everything
Hot street meat and browned corn
Put a gummy bear on top
Coat yourself in orange powder
Cha chi di dum *** *** ***
Let's go
Nuez moscada
Unico
La seleccion mas natural
Nuez moscada molida nuez moscada
Modo de empleo
Por su aroma y ligero sabor
Picante es ideal para sopas
Espinacas coliflor patatas
Aperativos carnes croquetas
Salsas y en reposteria
Peso neto 45 gramos
Conservar en un lugar fresco y seco

Nuez moscada
Esmaltan el contorno entero de la fuente,
Y son cual pebeteros que aroman la corriente.
Recogiéndolas sufro por la glotona pena
De que no quepan todas en mi canasta llena.

Allí las plantó un mago para que cada moza
Que llene en esa fuente sus ánforas de loza,
Sienta la tentación de prenderlas al seno
Como en un raro búcaro opulento y moreno.

¿Quieres tú una? Aspírala. ¡Si parecen de miel
Y dejan largo rato su perfume en la piel!
Exprímela en los labios. ¡Qué picante sabor!

Juraría que guarda cada cáliz, amor.
Tal vez por eso un mago las plantó allí en la fuente
Para hacer algún filtro con la clara corriente.
Con menta y con llantén llega el Otoño,
nuestro Otoño del Sur: verdes limones,
gravidez del naranjo, Abril bisoño,
últimas uvas dándose encontrones

con las primeras, agrias mandarinas.
La chaqueta de tweed cobra derecho
de maternal auxilio, en las esquinas
donde el picante viento está en acecho,

y retorna la cálida dulzura
de la casa abrigada, la ternura
del fuego, de la manta bien tejida,

el amor de los seres que guardamos,
y la vigencia de los duendes, amos
de las menudas gracias de la vida.
Sonámbula y picante,
mi voz es la gemela
de la canela.
Canela ultramontana
e islamita,
por ella mi experiencia
sigue de señorita.
Criado con ella,
mi alma tomó la forma
de su botella.
Si digo carne o espíritu,
paréceme que el diablo
se ríe del vocablo;
mas nunca vaciló
mi fe si dije «yo».
Yo, varón integral,
nutrido en el panal
de Mahoma
y en el que cuida Roma
en la Mesa Central.
Uno es mi fruto:
vivir en el cogollo
de cada minuto.
Que el milagro se haga,
dejándome aureola
o trayéndome llaga.
No porto insignias
de masón
ni de Caballero
de Colón.
A pesar del moralista
que la asedia
y sobre la comedia
que la traiciona,
es santa mi persona,
santa en el fuego lento
con que dora el altar
y en el remordimiento
del día que se me fue
sin oficiar.
En mis andanzas callejeras
del jeroglífico nocturno,
cuando cada muchacha
entorna sus maderas,
me deja atribulado
su enigma de no ser
ni carne ni pescado.
Aunque toca al poeta
roerse los codos,
vivo la formidable
vida de todas y de todos;
en mí late un pontífice
que todo lo posee
y todo lo bendice;
la dolorosa Naturaleza
sus tres reinos ampara
debajo de mi tiara;
y mi papal instinto
se conmueve
son la ignorancia de la nieve
y la sabiduría del jacinto.
Check the rhymes that break
Away
Fade-away like MJ on a scoring
Spree
See the rhymes I breed lovely none
Above me
Gettin' more hoes than goldie
Mack
Attack check the facts we far from
Wack
Villian in black so watch ya where ya gums
flap
Or you'll skull will be cracked imagine
that
Bullets makin' tunnels as ya see the funnels
Visions of afterlife made Lilith my
Wife
A succubus even lust after us as I
Bust
Celestial demons ****** in my *****
Y'all still daydreaming while I'm tag
Teaming
Cash rules everything around me lay my shaft Like
roundtree
And I'll be day and night in a fight with words to recite
While ya hyped over ya overbite I'll
Snipe
Competitors to news editors leave em
With blood stained sweaters from multiple berrettas
Tears and in memory letters for over the dispute of
cheddar
This is for my hustlers drug smugglers
Living the good life knock out down
Strife
Used to roll bikes in nikes now I'm rollin' whips flier
Than a kite Maybach as I sit back click clack
For talkin' stupid chitchat so prepare for the snaps
My raps gigante hotter than picante girls under
me
Cuz my mouthpiece make the ******* slippery
Big Yosef ain't takin' no
prisoners
Keep beef to a minimum y'all just
Hating *** listeners
I create blood baths bigger than
Adolf ******
So you'll get the picture
Deliciosos....ricos de chorizo seco con camarón rosado argentino.... tortillas recién hechas, aguacate, cilantro y cebolla blanca...salsita bien picante...ufff qué delicias papá.
Though shaq and biggie mounted it
I'm here to restock it match the profits
Lyrically I'm off it the topics can't stop it
The reign shedding from my brain divine
Words ******* numbs yo pains insane
Words that play can't take me away sway
Emotions coasting overdosing posing
On these fake imposter hang with real mobsters
Eating shrimp steaks to lobsters coppers
Can't match my appeal of the real steel
Superman burners in hand fans I demands
Understand I been president over hip hops residence
Once I learn to wreck ***** tapes that dates
Back before I settle my birth date crates
I was coming out of my shells casket
A ******* a tisket and a tasket see me mastered
The classics wizardry poetry straight above thee
Line Kobe Bryant politic tyrant been defiant
Others denying it cuz they pan skills fryin' it
Once I throw my beef gold teeth Christ reef
Hanging on my neck-isis this is ludicrous
Why i gotta do this keep my styles crisp
Raising cane since my fingers caught stingers
turncoats floating into singers way after the lingers
I'm feelin' Donnie Hathaway pavin' a way
Out of the ghettos though it keeps me astray
Dump the blunts in the cars ashtray by the tre
Eighties rolling with three of my baddest ladies
We all crazy especially if that purple Hazin' me
Hendrix guitar talking to me backwards swords
Made off of my vocal chords most largely ingorned
Critics board mad cuz I nailed 'em and soared
Deep into the auroras skies surprise uprise taste the cherry pies thighs
My women catching a glimpse of a paradise's stain fools know they can't stop the reign what???



I'm off the chain with no ridges ditches
To snitches best wishes thrown ozone
Out of the park I spark **** unseen like a quark
Call me Tony Starks iron Man when the
Gats in my hands breaking mic stands
Wither it be bymyself or other company
I keep it poppin' like we back in the 90s
Rewind me over and over til ya clover sober
Never too **** clever break any weather
Stormy or sunny it don't matter I still see
Greenery backs thumb tact once I impact
All blacks we rising above the regular stats
I broke the match once they tried to light me
But I'm too slippery operate machinery
Subs throw dubs at the club  flip a cherub
Holy moly I'm feelin' hits through the ravioli
mandible with the claw like Mic Foley
Can you smell what I'm cookin' sky hookin'
Grooves off time shooken got em looking
See my styles hard to pace like picante gigante
Freak women badder than Ashanti they say
Rain on me leave a stain on me big daddy
Heavy with the D see the girls they love me
Hip hop lover since I ****** my first under the covers
Word to my shebas dressed out iced out divas
Better believer brother making receivers
Girls catch my feeling mad ****** healing
I'm feelin' inner city blues like Marvin carvin'
Out his sighs with timely cries analyze
Black music never abuse it Tom's I cruise it
Once the mission held impossible
I make it look possible suckas so gullible
Flammable once the mic ignites you
Words is gasoline switch up the whole scene
Navy green fatigue see my war path bleeds
Joker mentalities live by no moralities itty bitty
Chaos try to creep take ya designed lost
Destined to be Boss so let's have a coin toss
Harley Harveys leaving dent break presidents
Fresh mint scents Franklins to Lincoln bent
See the establishment bribes for a settlement

Can't stop won't stop can't stop won't stop

— The End —