Best Huckleberry Poems
Huckleberry PieThis has got to be the best pie in the world..
It is a meat eaters pie,abounding with tart flavor
which explodes in your mouth with each bite.
It is not a subtle or beautiful pie, no fancy
decorations here. Just a perfect crust,not to
delicate..it must hold...
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Categories:
huckleberry, food
Form:
Narrative
Huckleberry JamSpread it on toast,
slather it on an English muffin.
Use it in your milkshake,
to make a smoothie,
top off a sundae or
crown a banana split.
Drop a dollop on a cracker
and plop it in your mouth.
Put it on a plate,
mixed with tiny chunks
of real creamery butter,
then spoon onto...
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Categories:
huckleberry, food, sweet,
Form:
Free verse
Vignette-HuckleberryA young rogue named Finn
Ran away with an escaped slave,Jim,
Down the river on a raft
On the Mississippi this tale was craft-
Encounters & adventures,fore and aft....
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Categories:
huckleberry, people, places, teen,
Form:
Narrative
HuckleberryYou are my sunshine far, far you go in my heart your memories will stay
Their wasn’t a day where you and I would play,
singing peekaboo songs near your cage.
I held you in my arms so close and fed you from my hand
you...
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Categories:
huckleberry, i miss you, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Im Your HuckleberryI’m your huckleberry
Always makes me smile
Since Val Kilmer used it in the move Tombstone
My husband and I used it over and over
The month after we saw the movie
Delighted us beyond any sane reason
To this day when I hear it
I have the same reaction
And I smile...
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Categories:
huckleberry, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Brother Man Sister Woman I Am Your HuckleberryLo! I am brother
I'm your brother Ericaceae
In my blues I'm royal purple
I have hope left
I am prayed up I'm Your Man
When you're sad
I'll help you to be glad
I stand I shall beholder
Upholding, beholding to you
Though it's scary
I'll...
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Categories:
huckleberry, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Knowing Basil HuckleberryBasil Huckleberry was an unassuming boy.
We called him boy even though he was in his fifties.
He rode a bicycle around offering rides to everybody
Touched is what grandma called him
He had a low mental IQ I was told
This was before anyone knew about an Emotional IQ
His...
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Categories:
huckleberry, character,
Form:
Lyric
Categories:
huckleberry, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
I Don'T Give a Rat's TailThis is the tale of a soul reaching out to others,
but receiving a cold shoulder wherever she goes.
Words and phrases
are misconstrued,
meanings attached
which cloud the issues
which she wishes
...
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Categories:
huckleberry, animal, literature,
Form:
Concrete
Huckleberry's Dadpap comes on whisky;
whenever he falls down, says
wildly, "Who pushed me?"
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This is taken from my own new fiction book "The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer." Read this book it's available on Amazon....
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Categories:
huckleberry, children, dad, drink, funny,
Form:
Senryu