Best Avocado Poems

A is for Avocado, the creamy, green nutritious fat.
B is for Berries, the fruit that keeps your tummy flat.
 
C is for Chia, most nutrient-dense...

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(This a new Version created using many editing suggestions from Linda:) 

I picked you up
like a “shiny” newly minted copper penny 
it was your kitten...

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When the season of splendor sprinkles 
the scent of sprightliness,
when the koels and kingfishers sing hymns of hope 
and merrily waltz their wings of chartreuse...

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There once was a fight on my plate
In front of my face while I ate

The Broccoli on the left picked up its Spear
And stabbed the...

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Comes silently
on sorrel moccasins

roosted on tortoiseshell
of root cellar

singing, stumbling
in numb imaginings

lit with half-light
vegetables
squeezed in jars
of russet and avocado

above
a cornice of sky
split with laughter
searching
for broken arrowheads
gold...

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Green is more than a color it’s true;
In viridescence there’s the promise 
Of life springing anew,
Or maybe that’s found 
In hues vibrant chartreuse.

Pea is the...

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Round and smooth
orange red
playing sunset
in azure pail
holding hands
with moonlight 
slices
gifts of pearls 
from the earth
dancing peppers
hot and horned 
kicking out
garlic smell
sunlit squeezed
lemon lime
sparkles from
sea salt...

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A cup of dainty daisies
   A whiff of lilacs' scent
A dish of vanilla-lace lilies
   Winter's flavors are spent

A lick of lemony...

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Dazzling moon in tangerine
Glowing scarlet like warm desire
Azure skies caress the thoughts
While cobalt dreams and crimson
Trees flame to life with lavender

Lilac thrives through a buttery...

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By your leaves,
              I see your changing mood
Inspired by the sun
 ...

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A barbequed jerk chicken
Saltfish and okra
Snapper & avocado
Fruit & rum cake with
Coconut ice-cream
Steel drium high
Fry!...

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[Title changed from ‘Double Talk’ as I’ve
used that title before]
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You fell in October, like autumn leaves
Funny it was a hot day.
The avocado tree was budding.
I knew you only a short while,
But it broke me...

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"Possums on the Run - Part 4"

Stars in the sky, 
he sits on his back steps,
he’s thinking of all his dreams,
his one true love, his...

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It was like a whisper- 
My wife delivered the sad news- 
"Your grandfather was dead."- 
And so he was- 
Her eyes was awfully sad- 
Touched...

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