Best Gourds Poems

HALLOWEEN FUN

Carving the pumpkin, oh such fun
How they danced when dad was done

Twisted mouth with large, black eyes
To scare the kids, then pumpkin pies

Hear those...

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The falling leaves serenade and ballet 
Whilst the harvest moon slowly waves good-bye 
The sky; a straw-like yellow chardonnay 
As the "Good morning" sun rises...

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An oddly-shaped Thanksgiving bird:
   quirky 
   turkey

What we call Grandma's mashed potatoes:
   dreamy 
   creamy

How she adds...

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My feet step in time to the great Pumpkin Stroll 
              ...

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Back home, I ponder long on life.
Death is so final, no return.

I sit alone on my sheltered cosy porch,
And think of spring forget-me-nots,
Of roses dark...

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Homes so recently abandoned
for Sunday swims and picnics
have become indoor respites
from the restless chill of change.

Secure, still days have vanished,
with hazy meadows humming.
Fireflies have met...

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A butterfly
on a plastic rose...
how long
does it take to know
all that is fake



Published in A Hundred Gourds

kash poet (kashinath karmakar)...

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I was loving the sun, 
Not consciously doing anything
My gourds hanging sweetly,
Too big to move much
Dancing with internal mirth 
Because I was being picked today
It...

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THE DAY I VISITED GIORGIO V.
The day I visited Giorgio V.
It was poetry that received me :
Poems lined after poems
Like the military in morning parade...

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What can I say other than that I’m bound, bound by the rooster’s call. A clarion call of divine arrangement, calling me to duty and...

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there is a certain taste to Autumn
almost alien to Summer's fruition of life
it is a different celebration
where the living having succeeded
fruits succumb to ripened apples
the...

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Bountiful goodness of squash, pumpkins and gourds decorate hay bales
Elaborate labyrinth of vines dried by August suns lean against twilight fences
Autumn colors of browns reds...

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Russet sunset overpowering coolness of the day
Showing herself in reds and yellows, 
Streaking through October’s pumpkin patches

Straw scarecrows decorating autumn porches
With their stationary smiles and...

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Crows, bats, witches, haunted houses, goblins, ghosts and me
Pumpkin bread, corn pudding, warm caramel apples my way.
Delicate intricate spider webs between my house and garage.
Holding...

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a midnight surf
wet, wild and cold -
the October moon

wolf’s fiery eyes
a blood red -
howls to be fed

at the mercy of
the pike -
scarecrow in the corn

sable...

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