Best Cardamom Poems
Stiff pleated fronds in concert rise
to wax under the April sun
and trill their canticles begun
in verses jade that they comprise.
Chartreuse of thorny branches splay
a tumult to belie the grace
that on display they interlace
like rose stems on a breezeless day.
Atop the thatched denuded bole
gush fountains cast in cardamom,
an opalescent diadem
that glistens on the mossy knoll.
In thus exuberant array
do cloistered peacocks mime ballet.
1/20/18
Categories:
cardamom, imagery, nature, spring, tree,
Form:
Quatorzain
Written: July 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Tom Woody
Walking around the edge of a massive crater that seemed to beckon her with all sorts of bizarre things, Alice—now an adult but still not quite—felt a strong pull. She still had an insatiable need to travel, even if it had been a long time since she had done things such as dancing with white rabbits or drinking morning tea. She discovered a mirror encircled by shimmering stardust while searching the enigmatic Moonrock for indications of madness.
The mirror flickered and changed, as a beauteous glass serpent, opening doors to wormholes from another galaxy. She touched its surface with her fingertips, but they went right through it like it was liquid light. The aromas of cardamom oil and starlight were so powerful that they flooded her whole body. It was an amalgam that savored such as the core of time. Her body parts swayed and twirled bizarrely, as she was in an intense nightmare. The nebulae above laughed with joy as they opened up. Comets spun around a celestial chessboard, making a symphony of clicks that echoed through the universe.
Alice traveled through planets ruled by quantum queens. Their eyes were as deep as black holes, and their lips formed the language of math. A drink infused with the essence of auburn was handed to her, while another crafted melody defied convention and pushed boundaries. The atmosphere in the room was warm and inviting, reminiscent of an expanded Wonderland, now adorned with an enchanting layer of twinkling stars.
She met a dark matter cat along the way. Its smile had the power to break apart galaxies. "Tell me," Alice asked as she drank the delicious essence of entropy, "is this a memory or a wonder?"
The cat looked back with knowing eyes and said, "Both." We never truly depart; we only shift.
spacetime came apart
curiosity sewed string~
mirrors still call out
Categories:
cardamom, analogy, space,
Form:
Haibun
In a big, weathered armchair
and a cocoon of faded quilts
beside a fireplace that glows
as it crackles and sparks.
With the weight of a book
propped against toasty knees
as steam rises like dawn,
releasing cardamom.
Where the evening breeze carries
the scent of lilac and the chant
of crooning crickets
through open windows,
and ideas bloom like roses,
floating like half-lit fireflies.
This is where happiness lives.
Categories:
cardamom, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
to be curried away in green cardamom dreams
is to float in the zest of orange spicy creams.
to fight against urges of curcuma yellow lust,
is to steady the ship and do what we must.
to bathe in the warmth of ginger drop puddles
is to swim for your life in in savory cuddles.
to blend myth in the caves of surprise
is to gather the taste that thrives in your eyes.
to climb into the mist of coriander green hills
is to sharpen the senses with pepper corn pills.
to stoke the hungry fire of a garlic grinning mouth
is to furnish the vestibule with cajun black south
to find your way home on a wintery dark day
is to remember the cinnamon that lit your way
Categories:
cardamom, food,
Form:
Grook
Byju Road lies there
cinnamon and cardamom
in jars sigh intermittently
of the forthcoming marriages
under the eaves of pawned property
Barbie sits among the
plastic flowers,covering
the dust of indifference
her eyes search the glow
on the edge of a child's last wish
sliced vegetables and chopped meat
smeared in oil whimper on pans
a maid peels onion
and her eyes well up with tears
a dagger glints over her skies
fishmongers dry their saliva
shouting and bargaining,then
sell themselves;unveiled eyes of fish
stare at their futile fate
twilight curls up
staggering feet and swaying heads
monopolize the road; the stink
of vodka envelops the whole trial
Byju Road lies there,devoid of heart
Categories:
cardamom,
Form:
Free verse
Cognac & Brandy recollections,
sublime warmth 'tween
smoky exhaled vapors,
wisps of Madagascar aromatics
& blazes of Autumn firesides
amidst a French Château fantasy,
dipped in honeysuckle reminisces
of cardamom spice and the pungent
zest of once upon twilit legends
Categories:
cardamom, autumn, desire, dream, fire,
Form:
Imagism
Pumpkin Pie at our table
Tasty treat divine
Stir sugar, eggs, cinnamon,
Cardamom, lemon
Yummy crust whoopee
Gobbled with
Glee!
For this Thankgiving, I give such thanks to Poetry Soup and all the talented feeling poets and all the warm generous wonderful new friends that have suddenly entered my life!
Categories:
cardamom, food, happiness,
Form:
Epulaeryu
To sip sickly sweet cardamom
tea with cinnamon and honey
And eat cakes by the Parthenon
where the whole blue world is sunny
Not a single sweet iced daydream
not some drug induced affection
Can warm me like your mild sunbeams
and your smothering perfection
The potions that I, earthly, know
create happiness so it seems
But no gilded high nor base low
can match you in my fevered dreams
I snatch at the shiniest toys
I can't stop my sickly impulse
Of all the injectible joys
Your love is what spikes my pulse
Categories:
cardamom, addiction, beautiful, drug, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Grandpa Punjab was in quite a hurry
He'd run out of cardamom and curry --
Poor guy tried every place
Found only nutmeg and lace --
Told his wife that his memory was blurry
Poetic License:
every = 3 syllables
memory = 2 syllables
Categories:
cardamom, food, memory,
Form:
Limerick
Pu Erh tea = shrinks fat cells & help promote weight loss (mornings)
low-caffeine
* white tea = blocks fat absorption & increases metabolism and boosts
slimming (lunch time) Caffeine
* chickweed tea = obesity - The leaf is used to make medicine.
(afternoon) Caffeine-Free
* Bilberry = stop cravings - help to improve blood circulation, oxygen
* Green bean coffee extract = belly fat - slow the effects of aging
supply and tear gland function. (evenings) Caffeine-Free
caffeine
(add: 9/28/2021 Tuesday) ???
* one brand: Alvita tea - only got one time - hopefully will get some more
but want to try many.
* ground cardamom - 6/25/2022 Saturday - (use: just a sprinkle- self) as a Tea - mornings to regulate your blood glucose level and aids weight loss. (add: 12/11/2021 Saturday 5:07) ground coriander is digestive
* Turpentine Uses and Benefits: 100% Pure Gum Spirits of Turpentine
Dr. Jennifer Daniels Turpentine | Cures Parasites and Candida
3/15/2022 Tuesday 6:52 am and YouTube
P.S. Don't forget parsley and dandelion tea
put parsley in every you cook.
and, sometimes if takes less for people of color, .
look up = side effects
(who knew : hint for history detectives)
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Categories:
cardamom, beautiful, black african american,
Form:
What I’d like to give you is an ounce of my perfume,
what you’ll get is my permeating essence-filled scent
so you can discover who I really am.
Step in to my space,
study the aromachology of me,
become the nose to my inner "scentual" being.
A pungent trace of amber redolent with promise
is fragrant with what can be,
seducing you with a tangy sexiness,
inducing a deep-down-in-the-marrow reaction.
Step close, burrow into my soft vanilla neck,
breathe in the all of me.
Allow my red, red rose head notes to light a spark
to beckon you on to explore
every inside, outside inch of my skin.
Lean in, capture my cinnamon, cardamom heart notes
which reveal my truest nature.
Inhale my musky base notes,
then heed the primal-instinct-releasing call
to explore the jungle of my soul.
With cloying clarity,
discern the conundrum of sweet, savory me.
Categories:
cardamom, desire, emotions, romance, senses,
Form:
Free verse
MEDITATION HOUR
Love notes written on vellum
Music scores with smiles between lines
Written in symbols, circles or waves
When lids closed for an hour
I’m inside a strand of hair
A protein or atomic space
Neutrality speaks like
A pink lotus
teaches as my Muse
Its a cardamom pip
I disappear into its blackness
then the car door
Banged !!
At the hour
©ghairodanielspoetry2018
Categories:
cardamom, car, hair, imagery, light,
Form:
Imagism
October Spice
Inspired October creates a recipe
For a sumptuous feast
A bouquet garni of paprika hued orange tupelo,
A fete of fragrant cinnamon shades in russet umber oaks,
Sprinkling tinges of savory gold in dancing ginger aspens
Then blending bits of sienna nutmeg tones to hickory,
Glazing scarlet cardamom frost on the sugar maple,
In a festival of allspiced sweet gum mixed delicacies
A banquet fest spread out in pungent cloves of beech offerings
Autumnal master stirs up a feast of bonne bouche in sassafras tones
With a smidge of saffron dusting on sable sycamores
Tidbits of chestnut fripperies - dainty delights wearing star anise harvests -
Sachet d’Epices of magenta dyed coriander colors burning bushes burgundy
In measures reflecting eternal delight - a twirling potpourri of praise.
9-27-21
Contest: October
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh
Thank you Jan for the inspiration!
Categories:
cardamom, october,
Form:
Free verse
You have dissolved me,
spinning sugar in long brewed cups of Indian tea...
breathing cardamom dust and mint
liquid me, sweet upon your palette,
no longer holding grounds of abstinence
no longer crystal, glittering under microscopes in glass
but one with the steam of ancient grasses and pods
This is the life. I'll melt for you any day.
Categories:
cardamom, happiness, love, passion,
Form:
Free verse
“I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.”
—Quote by David Attenborough
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Three rivers meet here in ecstasy
five thousand feet above sea level
guarded by range of mountains and hills
where tea, coffee, rose, cardamom breeze
stupefies air, mist completes the drink.
With bated breath all that breathe just wait
for NeelaKurinji, fine blue blooms
blooming only once every twelve years
Will she survive more such proud seasons?
Categories:
cardamom, flower, nature,
Form:
Free verse