Best Almond Shaped Poems

The scent of your soul

a caramalized breeze of fruit odours

reverbrating softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade 

where we sat side by side

Your right arm reaching slightly for my back

Your  name resonates gently with my spirit

as thoughts of you dwell in...

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The scent of your soul
a caramelized breeze of fruit odours
reverberating softly through my memory
Throwing me right back into ninth grade
where we sat side by side
Your right arm reaching slightly for my back
Your name resonates gently with my spirit
as thoughts of you dwell in my mind
Carrying...

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The scent of your soul

A caramelised breeze of fruit odours

reverberating  softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade

where we sat side by side

Your right arm reaching slightly for my back.

Thoughts of you dwell in my mind

and your name resonates gently with my...

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A precious gift! Joy unimagined fills my heart 
She smiles! My heart races, leaping! 
And like a butterfly in spring, gliding, 
It dips among new blossoms
Like a sweet melody playing softly 
in the cool of the evening, I soar!

My baby, my first, like an angel...

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The Retuning Smiles

i see beneath pairs of almond-shaped, green leavess
On white fabric, flowers set with four heart-shaped petals,
The color of sun-kissed blueberries,
Decorating the smocked sundress  of the pig-tailed toddler
.Hanging over the crook of her mother’s arm, and
With her dazzling, black eyes looking all around...

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sweet fragrance of perfume

          pheromones on satin sheets

                    scented spice of devotion

     ...

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From a distance what I saw
in a Down Syndrome child
was a human in the raw—
forgettable, lamentable, wild.

My prejudice was abhorrent
dismissing a "different" being.
Disdain came in a torrent
driven by cold-eyed seeing.

Then came a close-up look
at a new grandson in my arms.
My bias I forthwith forsook
lost in...

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Her Cheekbones, smooth as  pebbles 
Grasped tightly in his sexed up hand, sweating indelicately
Resembling that night the thoughts between the sheets were conceived
Weighing like soaked white carpets
Beneath flea market stands
She Is Beautiful, she is beautiful
Belladonna, noxious

Dusty eyes and wavy hair
Neruda book shoveled away somewhere...

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With eyes partially closed and a surrendering smile 
    as if she were awaiting love's first innocent caress, 
    Amie sits by her favorite window in anticipation
    of the shear splendor of God's awakening dawn
 ...

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You started out in life just like me
hanging around in hand-me-downs
from your family
Some were nice, like
your daddy's dimples when you smile
or your mama's almond shaped eyes
While others were unfortunate
like your grandma's testy temper
or your uncle Earl's ears

But not all of these
hand-me-downs
are permanent
Some you will hopefully
change...

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For the Gerber Baby Contest
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I knew God loved me on the day
He entrusted me with my daughters’ soul
The most important job to ever come my way
The greatest gift I would ever behold

Lost in thought, I’m mesmerised by the image before me
Laura is my babe, so...

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Written for my wonderful daughter, 
Ella Rose who is the love of my life. 



For she's my itty bitty precious rose,
So delicate with a distinct written prose.

                  ...

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I tried to paint you,
like they did the Mona Lisa.
But the pain in your eyes
was far too real.

Almond shaped wells of tears.

I tried to paint you,
but the colors on my palette failed me
like they always do.

I only think of you in shapes and shades that...

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Mission Control, this is Flight Z924693744, do you read?
We're having some technical trouble. How should we proceed?

We have spotted a planet, that appears to be suitable to abort;
But, to return to earth, we will need an alternate transport.

The Capsule Communicator didn't answer at all, unfortunately;
So,...

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What do  you  see  when you  look  in  my  eyes? 
Do they  betray  my  overwhelming  love  for you? 
What do  you  see  when  I  am  all smiles?...

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