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Best Grapefruit Poems

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


Grapefruit Juice
Drinking grapefruit juice is total bliss.
It won’t get any better than this.
I call this juice liquid happiness.
Good for a brother or sis.
 
inspired by a...

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Categories: grapefruit, drink,
Form: Light Verse



Sequins Of Savannah Sunset

I'm an estuary of ivy-furs,
sleeping in monsoonal moonglades of love~
as the savannah sun of sunset blurs,
slowly unveiling stars with golden glove. 

When russet- fairies twirl...

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Categories: grapefruit, art, emotions, heart, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
And We Are Happy
“And we are happy”    

Draped in dreams of liquid tides
Shallow waters cool the breeze
Toes drenched of vast believing
From grassy banks, soft and...

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Categories: grapefruit, happiness, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
And She Smiles
Somewhere in the distance
the horizon sleeps my canvas,
dawn comes to me in a dream

While the sun’s early rays
caress her,
widening her sable eyes and she smiles…

(before...

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Categories: grapefruit, good morning,
Form: Free verse
Mlb Begins
Preseason Baseball
two-thousand-sixteen
is now underway
oh what fun it is
watching baseball played

the grapefruit league
the cactus league
in Florida
Arizona

who'll make team
and who won't
get in shape

April
for real

play...

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Categories: grapefruit, baseball,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse



Premium Member Day In the Life of a Late Summer Day
Sleep.. indigo’s eyes, night loving allies,
Sol’s flare is stars' disguise dawn till dusk’s reprise,
peach awe-inspired skies effuse juice sunrise,
east, grapefruit pink lies - lemon slice...

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Categories: grapefruit, appreciation, day, imagery, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
A Salty Dog
On the rim of the glass, there is salt all around.
This makes the drink different from a “greyhound”.
Take either gin or vodka mixed with grapefruit...

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Categories: grapefruit, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chico's Fruit Stand
She found him in the yellow pages.
"Do you sell pecans?"

"Yes Ma'am, we do."

"I make a killer pecan pie,
how 'bout a trade?"

"You've got a deal."

"I have...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grapefruit, business, fruit,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Flammer Me Gimbels, Number 42
Flammer Me Gimbels #42
(a Vogon Pirate poem)

Flammer me gimbels, me trimbels and dromies,
Whenceforth I caminal scrabbit thy foamies.
Jeerbo or Jabox, ex labbit. Ex findle
Will not...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grapefruit, confusion,
Form: Vogon Poetry
The House Eaters
1.
My grapefruit tanned
toothpicks
bow above
the five-day flattened
spot
in an olive shag carpet
tracing grandpa Leo's 
blueprint,
with one encapsulated
toe –
this is the femur, this is
the head,
this is the fist,...

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Categories: grapefruit, angst, death, family, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orphan
O-Outward she seemed fine and healthy
R-Really it was a dagger in the heart to hear!
P-Penetrated through the ovaries was a cancer cyst.
H-Happened that it was...

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Categories: grapefruit, cancer,
Form: Acrostic
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: grapefruit, fruit,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member My Little Lemon Tree
I check my little lemon tree every day with delight,
The new baby lemons are just growing out of sight.
The lemon tree lives on my patio...

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Categories: grapefruit, fruit, funny, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Aroma Poetry
Mother nature oh! Rose of roses!
Mother of all flowers' and smell,
Ylang Ylang! You don't know what it causes!
An aphrodisiac turns you on like hell!

Sandalwood with...

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Categories: grapefruit, beauty, flower, rose, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
How I Got Rich and What Happened Then
Written in summer of 1976.


I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grapefruit, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs