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Best Bananas Poems

Below are the all-time best Bananas poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bananas poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: bananas, food,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Culinary Sonnet
Figs stuffed with proscuitto and mascarpone cheese,
a plate of bacon wrapped scallops and pineapple.
French onion soup is bound to please
or garlic steamed mussels with which...

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Categories: bananas, food,
Form: Sonnet
Children of the Valleys
And as the hills yonder 
Turned red from sunset rays
As darkness engulfed the valley
And the sweet sounds of birds
Rent the cool evening air

Our cows and...

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Categories: bananas, africa, children, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Still Life With Fruit
STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT

In spite of the orchard
A far white moon dominates
Its sick room presence lifts the eye

Still life with fruit –
Crescent dish with bananas,...

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Categories: bananas, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Xanthophobia
Zanthoxylum shrubs with clustered yellow flowers,
Yolks of eggs and yellow jackets make her want to scream.
Xanthophobia ensnares her. It is sickening
Wakening to an aureate dawn’s...

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Categories: bananas, fear, psychological, yellow,
Form: ABC



Premium Member My Own Concoction
Some people call it breakfast which makes me snicker and giggle
It might have been since it starts with a pancake or two
except then I add...

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Categories: bananas, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sandpaper and Phantom Rainbows
When I saw him last, 
He wore grey bananas on his feet 
He had a pirate’s hat between his teeth 
Long last the man from...

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Categories: bananas, betrayal, color, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...

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Categories: bananas, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse
You'Re My Cup of Tea
Your sweetness tasted like cherries
Your smell scented like fresh strawberries
Your words filly as ripened bananas
Your act  sour like my lemon trees
Long ago i was...

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Categories: bananas, lovewords, baby, me, baby,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Australia Down Under
Down under continent
Down low is Australia
Australia the big island
Australia sixth largest continent
Country whose desert known as outback
Country who has the largest reef
Reef called the Great...

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Categories: bananas, nature, weather,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member A Parliament of Monkeys
all agitated

          discussing monkey business

           ...

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Categories: bananas, humor,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member An X-Mess Carol
"An X-Mess Carol"

Somewhere standing barefoot
in the sand, she thought with guilty pleasure
“This is the KORO SEA!” and
conjured up a multitude of story scenarios
Buccaneers, Pirates Parlay,...

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Categories: bananas, absence, abuse, children, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Animal Crackers
A giraffe approached
We necked

An elephant met me on the jungle path
I stored many thoughts in his trunk

A monkey smiles at me
Now I have no more...

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Categories: bananas, animal, children, fairy,
Form: Couplet
One Single Dish, One Single Pea - Dr Seuss Contest Inspired
One single dish with one single pea

The sign on the door said, 
Come one and come all
We welcome the short
and we welcome the tall

From the...

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Categories: bananas, food, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oinker At the Dessert Bar
Oh, give me cake with double chocolate
And strawberry with sweetened cream whipped stiff.
And if you have a cake named butter nut,
I’ll have that too. For...

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Categories: bananas, food,
Form: Sonnet

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