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Best Gooseberry Poems

Below are the all-time best Gooseberry poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gooseberry poems written by PoetrySoup members


Green Eggs and Gooseberry Jam
Heckle and Jeckle, jellyroll jam,
Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth.
Little kids like to eat green eggs and ham;
So do you – now tell me the...

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Categories: gooseberry, children, funny, old, old,
Form: Rhyme



Gooseberry
It's a ripe hour under shield
And tranquil carefree splendid of the day
Quoting the splendour combination of beauty
It's the time on the lovers on board.
A butterfly...

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Categories: gooseberry, love, marriage,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Animal Life
In the dog-days of summer of so long ago
there were bear-hugging moments I like to recall
Like leafing through pages of ram-shackle books,
that are dog-eared, and...

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Categories: gooseberry, child, childhood, nature, summer,
Form: Free verse
Kiwi Fruit
There is a little brown fruit called a “kiwi”.
Some people call it a “Chinese gooseberry“.
It is shaped like an egg, and very hairy.
It is named...

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Categories: gooseberry, foodfruit,
Form: Rhyme
Late Summer Nights Dream At the Cat In the Hat
It was way after eight, at the Cat in the Hat.
    The whole plaice was swimming, quoth the mackrel to sprat.
 ...

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Categories: gooseberry, imagination, nonsense,
Form: Couplet



Our Fruit Flirtation
You hung two big cherries on my ear.
I was delighted with the red earring.
The unexpected jewel was shining and clear
As your eyes – insatiable and...

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Categories: gooseberry, love, red,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fruits
Apple many varieties sweet and sour
Banana soft fruit many uses
Cherry's are sweet watch out for its stone
Damson like a juicy plum
Elderberry fragrant good in wine
Fig...

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Categories: gooseberry, fruit,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Here I Go Again
I practice the right thing to do in situations
I teach these practices to children
I preach staying calm and in control
But when my emotions grab my...

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Categories: gooseberry, irony,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Walled Garden
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A garden with walls high and deep
Brilliant daisies swaying in the sweet breeze
Cabbage, cauliflower and leeks thriving, flourishing
Down crunching gravel paths I dance
Everything in this...

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Categories: gooseberry, dream, garden,
Form: Abecedarian
Seasonal Sigh
Finished vines
waving limply in the wind,
tangled streaks across the hillside.

The Autumn Earth
conceals eternal motion
under a carpet of many colors;
a fluid carpet that flutters and shifts
beneath...

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© Karen Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gooseberry, nature, seasons, weather, winter,
Form: Free verse
The Abc's of Pie
Why oh why do I love pie?
The ABC's of it, and
The XYZ's of it
The PIE of it

A apple pie
B Boston cream pie
C custard pie
D Dutch...

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Categories: gooseberry, food,
Form: ABC
Secret Garden
From morning to time day is done
Sunflower follows the sun
There is a brief nostalgia then fun
As around the sunflower children run

The poppy flowers are red
Like...

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Categories: gooseberry, garden,
Form: Free verse
The Key In the Heart - Part-1
There once was a boy
The size of your toe.
He was nice as could be,
But he couldn’t grow.

The years just passed
And his friends all grew tall.
But...

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Categories: gooseberry, animal, child, children, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Rich and Poor
The gooseberry bush, a thing of beauty,
bow to my lady, bow to my lord

The homely hearth and sty for stock,
Bread for my bairns, fat for...

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Categories: gooseberry, political,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Blackberries, Blackberries
Blackberries, blackberries, what’s the big deal?
They’ve too many seeds, and they give me no thrill.
They’re actually tart and they’re only sweet when
placed into a pie....

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Categories: gooseberry, fruit,
Form: Rhyme

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