edamame

Was it in 2006? Or 2007? I discovered you in a Japanese restaurant, and I glanced at you thinking that you weren’t very delectable and pushed you away for other meatier stuff. After all, you were just a bean.

You appeared before me, over and over again after that.  You didn’t give up.  Soon, it wasn’t just at Japanese restaurants.  It was also at friends’ parties and supermarkets.  I have to give it to you, you were persistent.

My first taste was with hesitation.  I licked you.  You were salty.  I bit into you.  You came into my mouth.  It was love at first bite. You are a little…nutty.

I like you, Edamame. You may be Japanese, but I am colour blind.

martini with edamame

Intoxicated
Sensations spilling forth like
Beans into a filled glass.
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I’m inebriated
By the combination of
Martini and soy.
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martini with edamame

Who needs olives?
Variety bordering on risqué
Makes a better tale.
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cupcakes with edamame

Is it about food
Or of the man who brings
Love in a cupcake?
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You envelope me
In sunshiny coconut
And edamame
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dancing with edamame

Visions of dancing
On grainy wooden floors seasoned
With life’s experience.
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edamame necklace

Fill me with life
Like the soil of the earth
Not cold hard coloured stones.
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my temple

This is my temple
I taste your saltiness
You energise me.
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edamame necklace

Take me and my heart
Can you hear it thump thumping
My Edamame?
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A badly written haiku by LL, dedicated to you, who left  10 years ago.  We were colour blind.

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