Best Berry Poems

Belva Berry

1889 - 1905         


I truly never asked to be born.
I truly never wanted any of this.
But what choice did I have?
What choice does any one of us have?
With our first breath
We begin our long slow descent...

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Simmering,hot, pancakes, flushed.
Battered, beating, bruised,
Syrup, sweet, melted, dripping, 

Brown now, peeling, ripping 
Dark berries, smashed oozing bluish - black red,
Hands and words tossed instead,

Pancake Burnt! Pancake dead!...

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THE BLACKER THE BERRY..

Misconception dims the path that leads her brown Clay
To shallow waters where she can never float like a butterfly but always stings like a bee
She is only good at germinating in dim waters like
Deep intellectual conversations
Always warrant entry into shallow society
Dictating that...

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Chuck Berry is eighty one
still performing and having fun,
it is a while since fifty- five
when his repertoire became alive.

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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Relative of the
Potato, tomato, is 
The Wolf-berry shrub




     http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature-6.php...

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Bitter sweet berry
Metaphor-celebration
Native peoples loss

Bloom like a crane-fowl
Shortened name over time.
Hospitality

Given by native
People, friends, whose strange gods set
Their end destiny...

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He’d take dates back to his place for late-night 
pancakes smeared with golden butter, doused 
in luscious boysenberry sauce. 
Halfway through this small repast, 
he’d lean forward, letting 
moist berry lips move 
softly over 
his lovely 
lady’s 
mouth.

For PD's Kissing Game Poetry Contest
and now for...

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Many of time have
I sat upon earthy ground,
amongst Huckle Berry patches
gorging in Huckle Berry heaven
with glutton lips painted purple....

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Jerry Cherry loves a berry,
Be it black or blue,
He also loves the red ones,
He ate quite a few.

He didn't like picking them,
So he bought them from a shop,
He mixed some with ice-cream
To make a berry slop....

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Ode to my berry vine, 

with tart berries so divine 

you are sweet like summer rain 

you drive my palate so insane. 

 

Your berries are so ripe and plump 

I wish to eat you by the clump 

tasty with your juices pleasing 

all my...

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Darkness overcomes me as the night slowly settles in, 
What’s left of the light seems to hurt my eye’s, I’ve  over worked my body again, I need 
to….Relax.

I slowly strike the match on the surface of it’s keep, I hate the smell.. It won’t...

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The blackberry, elderberry and strawberry congregated for a meeting
The blackberry had a thorny issue
The elderberry looked down on them
The strawberry had low self esteem
This is our lot, sharing this plot
The strawberry said with a low voice
But the blackberry wanted to hedge his bets
And the elderberry...

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Monkeys
In trees

Eating
Berries

Berries
Make drunk

Monkeys
Ker plunk

Rolling
On ground

Stand up
Fall down

Sleep off
Drunk state

Monkeys
Mistake

23rd March 2017...

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tantalizing treat
	mustard burgeoning crimson ~
		mockingbird lipstick

(June Full Moon – Algonquian, Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota)...

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It's early yet for picking,
Only one black kiss 
At the end of pinky clusters, 
First fruit, 
Faceted like flies' eyes.

The biggest are up too high, 
In too far, where snakes live. 
Somebody could lose their balance,
Fall inside. 
Somebody could get trapped in brambles.

She used to...

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