Best Aubergine Poems

The French expression is exquisite, 
fat succulent globes glowing darkly,
but if you're looking for length look  
to the East, although they lack girth.
Yet the...

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I LOVE YOU EVEN IN FAR OFF PLACE

Fever of love cartwheel snaillike but where are you?

Round six o'clock noon, sunken is the moon gazing
behind deep...

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The orchid moon and I look in kind
at the dimpled ocean's
aubergine plain, meandering thought's
violet caves.  I've lost my way
in the lavender vortex 
of a...

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The Testaments

Behold, the essence of aubergine and a trail of sparkles yields the moment to radiant reds, like a breasted robin of autumns abandon legions...

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I parked along the side of the road
where the shoulder turned to gravel.
I left my cardoor open, thinking I’d only be a moment.
Into the golden...

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I may cringe when I feel the burdensome need
to forgive someone for doing me an odious deed.
But I cannot hide in dark aubergine shadows
knowing it's...

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The moon hangs bold yet serene
In its pool of molten moonlight
When the night belongs to Selene.

When the night bleeds aubergine
Into the folds of daylight, 
The...

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Rain seeps into every crack and crevice
chilling to the bone
Winter has arrived with a vengeance 
and summer is forever gone.
Ice slicks the asphalt, into a
glittering...

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"Immaculate"

I’d like to write something 
beautiful for once,
divinely dripping with honey
and milk that washes white 
like stamen juice over the uncut,
the bees all come to...

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There are many
Shades of me
They cover you
And color me
I can be any hue I want to be

Black or white
Neon bright
A darker color when we fight
A...

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Ernestine and her friends sweet sixteen
Jean   Irene   Josephine   and Pauline

Dolled up in glamorous aubergine velveteen
Dreamt of being harvest queens...

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Autumn breezes signal October's arrival
with windswept revelry they blow. 
Golden leaves, like confetti, flutter aground.
Bare maples stand, and at their feet a carpet,
emblazoned in russet,...

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Vegetables


      A huddle of potatoes on a plate

      Called to the beans, “You're late, you're...

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They've been working on this for years
Inside the government
To try a replace the brain of man
With that of a purple eggplant

This idea to me sounds...

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Strawberry faces freckle
in morning sun
Noses tickle
with the cold wet kisses
of orange mist
The aubergine
of plums drips
from chins
under a feather sky
Garnet grapes cobblestone
old roads
where tractors snore
as celery...

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