Best Mandrakes Poems

Pelting shapely pebbles into the lucid lake,
Lonely, among daffodils and golden mandrakes,
And rejoicing the dance of silver flakes,
A delicate penumbra catches his fancy great,
And in a sweep, away, his heart does take.
Ruthless in love and incredible in stake,
He dives deep down,
Into his own grave....

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I wonder if God hates cowards, for

My sins mushroom near Satan's apple

I live and die in my own filth

No human or angel treads 

Near my Mandragora hub

Its narcotism excites my senses

Uncotrollable erotic desires

Grip me in its poisonous beauty 

I surfeit in my inhumane pleasures

No saviour...

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GentleMan
I remain blind to the world but you.
The Lily among Thorns
and the perfect work of a craftsman's hand.
Giving usefulness to my Banquet Hall
and injecting Life into my green Vineyard.

Lady
Oh dear! My darling Gentle Lion.
Radiant and ruddy, unique as a Gazelle.
A mound of Wheat encircled by...

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Listen to your lover as he comes, gazing in your windows, peering 
through the lattice, leaping across your mountains and bounding over your hills 
like a gazelle or young stag in your garden orchard of pomegranates with choice 
fruits, with henna and nard, saffron, calamus...

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Sleeping giant,formless,not yet born,
You will awaken as poison.

Rising up from retention ponds,
Dragonflies with nephilim wings.

Writing prophecies on liquid scrolls,
Your iridescent words we'll eat.

The fire,raining down to earth,
Feeding the mandrakes, of old eden....

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Manageable merry-making makes many memorable moments 
more mischievous and malleable.
Marvelously multi-talented muffin-makers and mandrakes may
Momentarily mollify Matt’s merriment.
Masterful melodious music might add magical, mystical 
Mettle to my magnificent minx’s manageable merry-making.
Maniacal mean-spirited micro-muffin-midgets may
Momentarily be maintained, micro-inspected and mollified
By my marvelously multi-talented Mama Mitzy.
My Muffins!...

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Two sisters, one man-
Well-tricked for his trickery,
Jacob gained two wives.

Two sisters, one man-
One weak-eyed and unwanted;
One was beautiful.

Two sisters, one man-
In love he wept for Rachel,
For sons loved Leah.

Two sisters, one man-
Mandrakes, sex bartered in hopes
Both would feel equal....

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My Soul awakened to an autumn song serene pleasant vital and calm! My flesh went to sleep kissing the autumn breeze that blew in the window while  the autumn waterfall did spring forth the smell of autumn love it was amorous completely heavenly joyous...

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The root people were gearing up for war.
They had their swords and axes out.
They were heading toward the store,
Where a rude man had been a lout.

We are taking all our kin home, they said.
You will have no more turnips or produce.
I stood back and watched...

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Today's society says,
"You're not a man
If you can't turn flesh to stone."
So drug after drug is manufactured
To make men feel like teens again.
"Bigger, longer, faster, stronger"
Is the motto of  this money game
With a pill, a caplet or capsule.
From ***** stars to "Smiling Bob",
They convince...

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Crescent Time Breathing

There is no reach by which we as breathing creatures of crescent time,
Can ascertain the crouching intentions behind an elm tree with acorn outbursts,
Designed to scan the visions of the seething statues which stand upright in dark halls,
There is no grasping the dog...

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Jacob loved Rachel
Laban connived
Jacob wed Leah
Leah, weak eyed
Jacob wed Rachel
Seven long years!

Rachel was loved
Rachel was barren
Leah was scorned
Leah was bearing

Leah bore Reuben
See, a son!
Leah bore Simeon
God has heard!
Leah bore Levi
I am attached!
Leah bore Judah
Now, I will praise!

Rachel felt envy
Let me just die!
Jacob was angry
Am I...

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  first flowers open, seasons begin ! : 
  bloom before doom 
  as always

Rajasthani breeze sweet and scentful 
fanning out to the sunset :
a caress ! across the ripeness of apricots

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Written: June 22, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Joseph May
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