Best Fruiting Poems

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She stood amidst the tropic breeze
the girl with blue Aruba eyes
Between the fruiting mango trees
neath pastel sunset shimmered skies

Meandering this summer’s eve
we stroll the shoreline...

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This is my last confession; there will be no more.

I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen...

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A-Z Latin and Common names of plants.

A is for Acanthus Mollis the Latin name but this does teach us
B is for the common name we...

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So Libra
Scale of deities and Zodiac
Balancing our hopes
And green renewal
Giving birth
The way you were birthed
From the fables of the earth
Imposed on man's ignorance
So Libra
For fruit...

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Sometimes when the calypso music explodes
Shards of memories glistening with my pain
My heart like a rhumba box sits silent again
Where slow surfs lap granite doors,...

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The time of growth and change is done and past.
From thaw to frost activity prevailed, 
And change came often, often coming fast, 
Till finalizing Fall...

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A Garden of Learning
Aljim B. Lituañas

Reading is a lovely garden
Books are the flowers of Eden
Readers are thirsty butterflies
Words are the nectars of their eyes.

O! Wisdom...

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NEVER LET THE LAUGHTER END
(A Poem written in memory of the late great Robin Williams)

Behind the "Nanu nanu" 
Behind the "Good Morning Vietnam!"
Behind the "Oh...

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Outside My Window

I sit on Dad's heavenly bed as I pen this write
The mournful heart looks outside
The window which for the moment is mine
I view...

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In the holy spot
with the sitting rock
there is oak. Out
where humans live
there is shagbark hickory
and maple.

Ants climb the rock.
August, and young birds
are quiet when the...

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LONG TO BE     SONNET

As spring did pass into summer’s full bloom 
To stand with arms outstretched in seasons all 
As the...

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Old man limping
Walking toy poodle;
Patient devotion

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Old master
Kung-fu sessions;
Evening serenade

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Haul of freshness
Seafood and meat;
Home economics

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Bourgainvilleas sparkle
Five colourful hues;
Hot weather blossoms

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Pomegranate tree
Fruiting abundance;
Happy harvest

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Family time flings
Feisty mahjong...

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Far out to sea in the great expanse of water an island lies
Shaped like a crescent or bulls horns called the islands of the moon.

White...

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LIFE
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the love of my life, life,
its depth, its range, how rife.
from high up in the air,
to here and there, to where

life finds a niche, takes...

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Only a toddler, self strewn upon the Walmart floor like paper
To be swept up from its tantrums against a cuddling breast
And I saw tomorrow like...

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