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Best Forbidden Fruit Poems

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Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden fruit is sweetest, or that’s what they all say
So I thought I’d give it a try and went for some today
I didn’t know just...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, funny, fruit, me,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Forbidden Fruit: a Collab: Pc-Cd
The dancing flames lit up her hair
In shades of dark and light
She looked at me with longing eyes
That sparkled in the night.
   ...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Forbidden Fruit
Unrequited love is the
forbidden fruit of the heart.
And if you long for its taste,
it will tear your heart apart.

A love never meant to be;
drains dying...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, angst, heart, heartbreak, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Stranded In the Pools of Fate
on the threshold of tomorrow
through countless sighs 
i wait for you
stranded in the pools of fate
as the seconds fall grounded
like tears of all my yesterdays
in...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Eve's Drop, Or Not To Eavesdrop
Forbidden fruit they had eaten
   At the bidding of the snake
New ashamed that they were naked
   They had to cover up,...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, god, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fall From Grace a Roundel
Before the beginning of time when Chaos ruled Hell and Night
Into the depths of this Cosmos, a Paradise, perfectly placed.
Above this darkness, a heaven drawn...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, bible, creation, evil, god,
Form: Roundel
Wild Cherries
A giant snowball in springtime
From twenty yards out the sound and smell
Closer now; breathing her numbing scent
Listening to the drowsy hum
of greedy and jealous bees
forced...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, devotion, nature, nostalgia, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Word-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
BEGINNINGS

The WORD was there before the dawn of time
the Trinity communed in sacred tongue
with sounds unheard, unspeakable, sublime
they uttered words of their unending Love.
With power...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, beautiful, bible, life, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Foodie's Love Sonnet
Bowled over, kneading you, feeling sub-lime
from my head tomatoes. Hear my heart beet!
Eggcited, wonton you olive the thyme.
Donut you carrot all for me at yeast?

You’re...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, food, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Stranded In the Pools of Fate
on the threshold of tomorrow
through countless sighs 
i wait for you
stranded in the pools of fate
as the seconds fall grounded
like tears of all my yesterdays
in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forbidden fruit, angst, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Hushed Whispers
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, life, love, passion
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trees
The tree that held the forbidden fruit
     Held our destiny within its root
 The ancient secrets that it kept
  ...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forbidden fruit, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sailing Away Under a Silver Moon Forever
Sailing Away Under a Silver Moon Forever

As the morning slowly awakens I see how those beautiful eyes
Of yours warmly shine bright and share thy palpable...

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Categories: forbidden fruit, beautiful, dream, emotions, imagery,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Yearn
“Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”
Rumi

Without you,
I am a drop...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forbidden fruit, absence, romance,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs