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Best Confections Poems


Premium Member Halloween Night
...Come with us Halloweening.
We’ll frolic in the streets.
We’ll race from house to house to house
Spouting  “Trick-or-Treats.”

And eagerly we’ll each collect 
Confections in a bag.
Fellow ghoul......

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Categories: confections, day, halloween, house,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
...
(A call for the lights to dim as a single spotlight illuminates the legend Judy Garland, who is center stage. She wears a faded housecoat as her beautiful, brandy brown eyes hold a lifetime of ......

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Categories: confections, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Cookies
...Now they say that girls are made of sugar
And spice, but good girls finish last my friend.
For there is one truth for all women kind,
Come hell or high water we will fight
For our right to indulg......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confections, food, heart, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Days of Wine and Roses
...Flickering in the night, a melting’s texture of regrets afterglow,
Candlelight’s waxed drippings staining the white laced table cloth,
Yet in the black and white photo album of the timeless, it is ......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confections, art, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tea Is Served
...Gathered in the shade of her quaint little garden, 
 where a trellis was woven with rose climbing vines,
   something enchanting, had been deftly designed, 
     on an ordinary day, on a May after......

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Categories: confections, autumn, death, friendship, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Third Grade Recitation
...My cousin and I were dismayed
By the kids who were in her third grade
They had no answers to tell
Though they spoke very well
And knew how impressions were made!

They earned an A+ for enduranc......

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Categories: confections, political, psychological, student, truth,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member Kidnapping You
...Kidnapped


I plan to kidnap you~though you
are a fully grown man.
I hold for you, a bag of sweets…
My heart's sweetest confections
and then...

Get you into my car and into a dark,
thi......

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Categories: confections, fantasy, imagination, passion,
Form: Verse
Night Spell
...I am alone but never lonely in the night. 
Dusk beckons from the garden. Oh, night, sweet night of mine!
My bruises fade into the ebony sky, camouflaged in twilight...
Hideous scars are ob......

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Categories: confections, allegory, fantasy, me, night,
Form: Free verse
Something Beautiful and Strange
...'neath my family tree I found
something green and blue and brown
hatching out beneath my touch
that I love so very much
can you take it home tonight?
feed it soup and hold it tight?
I can't hav......

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Categories: confections, funny, home, home,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Aunt Matties Place
...I love to reminisce about great Aunt Mattie.
Her home perched atop of an old barber shop; 
a barber pole below her apartment told my young eyes 
that we’d arrived at her place.

Her t......

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Categories: confections, appreciation, chocolate, family, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Joy She Brings
...
She speaks 

sweetest confections 
purest ingredients 
tastiest treats 
scrumptious delight

She sings 

cool summer breeze 
wind through my hair 
worries recede 
ray of sun......

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Categories: confections, blessing, daughter, love, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Channel of Thoughts
...routines
     always
       stagnate
suffocate
    as they
        envelop
dreams
    in
       silent
         confections:
beauty
&dignity
     disappear
in
abstract
uniformity
    ......

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Categories: confections, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Christmas Cookies
...Holiday confections of delicious joys mouthwatering flavorings,
Savor the tasty classic Christmas cookies, snicker your drooling
Taste buds of satisfactions indulgence by sugary tarts of rounded
P......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confections, christmas, devotion, drink, food,
Form: Free verse
First of May
..."First of May"


When I was a child I ran away
To live with the circus in Bombay,
Where all things were new
And possible, too!
So, for this they called me "First of May"!

I started out selling conce......

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Categories: confections, adventure, childhood, fantasy, hope,
Form: Limerick
Donut People
...Donut People

Not all donut people are large or police or thieves
Nor are they thin, eating only greens and leaves and vitamins
Or exercising on the side of reasons muscularity
All this takes ti......

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Categories: confections, children, desire, food, fun,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry