Candy Acrostic Poems

Fresh winter wind shines
Early day's icy lace
Brisk peppermint breath
Refined milky light
Ubiquitous candy hearts 
Allows a splash of
Red and pink to brighten
Yearlings' skittish steps to spring.
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The moment everyone choruses "Happy New Year'
I know my January just started.
The moment my pastor says 'Its our year of The Shift'
I know my year...

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Winter

Beautiful snowfall

Lights in all the homes

Tall dark green tree in the street

Ice rank for the kid in us

Hot chocolate 

Candy canes 

Christmas Globe is where...

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(H)appy jack-o’-lanterns are smiling
(A)pples are coated with caramel
(L)ively kids are in costumes eating candy
(L)aughter can be heard in the streets
(O)pen doors bring tricks or treats
(W)itches...

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Child-like enthusiasm at Christmas time is not easily duplicated.
Hearty laughter surrounds a family reminiscing about other Christmases.
Rich pastries, cookies and candy only found once a...

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Howling and wailing into the night
A scary mask-fest causing some fright.
Lifts to neighborhoods not even in sight,
Loot gathered, yet, we dare not take a bite.
Owls,...

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Juneteenth… Justifiably they say ignorance is bliss. 
               No, it’s nothing...

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So many stones have been thrown at me, 
That I'm not frightened of them anymore, 
And the pit has become a solid tower, 
Tall among...

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Plump pumpkins with a choice to pick
Underneath big piles to be found
Making faces to light up quick
Playful smiles right out of the ground
Kids in costumes...

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Two ripe, moisture-dappled lips
Hunger, unabated, for what lies behind
Entranced by your gaze, I dive ... down ... deep

Rings upon rings, smooth, symmetrical
Indefectible flowing furrows of...

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Winter’s snow softly falls, flurries
invite me to a magic kingdom -
naïve of bitterness.  Cold and warmth
tethered together -  in lover’s arms, in hats...

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Cold shimmers the frost in midnight moonlight.
Holding fast to joyous thoughts, the child sleeps
reveling in thoughts of sugar dusted dreams.
In her world they are visions...

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Splash Bang Reflection


W ~ hen it has hit home with a big splash bang or silent reflection that time

E ~ lapses and fireworks are for...

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 Halloween 

Haunting monsters roam on an October Halloween spooky night

As munchkin stroll dress in their costumes that fright  

Large carved pumpkins laugh as...

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Ecstasy is evasive. It's like candy for the soul
Contriving it rarely works and
searching for its manifestation daily
teeters on an addiction of sorts
Americans are obsessed with...

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Beleaguer me with beaten breaths as I burn long beyond this dalliance of love,
Remind me with a rush of redolent-rippled candy kisses draped across my...

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Christmas means cheers and frolic with candy cane shared to heal and cleanse
Hanging stockings for abundance in our journey of life
Reindeers with their savvy flights...

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Frantically I scanned the thronging crowds,
Raging in my heart, blood pounded on my eardrums,
‘Is this my purgatory for some crime unknown in a past life?’,...

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( TRICK OR TREAT )

Toddlers walking the streets at night,
Running from house to house.
Images of candy fill their heads,
Costumes of all kinds abound.
Knocking on strangers...

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