Best Plum Poems

I had barely escaped the cat’s enormous paws
When I found myself in fairyville Santa Claus
What is this place I ventured to ask?
The answer was a surprising gasp.

Are you new? The red robin queried with dismay.
Apparently I was to be someone else that day.
I am a...

Continue reading...

poet's wind - she dreams
possibilities tasted--

moonlight blows plum kiss...

Continue reading...

I'm a lad, seven and ten

Don't know why I hold this pen.

I'm just a kid, caught in the middle.

Life is a maze and love's a riddle..

 

 

Cute little girls, when I do see,

I smile at them, they wink at me.

I'm a bit shy; but...

Continue reading...

Plum tuckered from the Polar Express,
off the rails and despairing of goody-
goody gumdrops and sweet words
that impresses many a poetic treat.

Preparation of Victorian sweets, via PC,
dreaded, droll, glorious and interminable.
I’m laughing at you, if you try, Sugar Plum.
You’ll turn colors as a longsuffering victim.

The SP...

Continue reading...

Plum
wings,
plucky
is the strum
of love’s afterglow
With purple locks and negligee,
angel flew to hubby under sateen satin sheets
Lavender ruffling, at the midnight hour, had couple vibing in synchronicity
...

Continue reading...

sweet odours of spring
filled in the air still chilly
a wonder of life...

Continue reading...

How far from nature and life it is
the gray clouds, airplanes in them
the night cooing and pigeons roosting
Sirma's garden gone to roses and seed

                        That airplane overhead!
                        pointing the way
                        pointing to war

War being an aggravated condition of what
we already know

                        Flowering beneath the noise
                        of yet another jet passing...

Continue reading...

Here...A Plum...A Peach...A Nectarine...

Here... a plum... a peach....a nectarine...
cool, soft, purple-blue,
sweet, tight-n-tart, something new,
I bite it.....mmm...
I hold it in my mouth and suck it....
until the skin of it releases its hold,
and exposes the sweet tender flesh lying underneath,
mmm... I linger there....
and just when I think...

Continue reading...

These are my modern English translations of haiku about plum blossoms, plums and plum trees. 

Picking autumn plums
my wrinkled hands
once again grow fragrant
—Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Clinging
to the plum tree:
one blossom's worth of warmth…
—Hattori Ransetsu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

On adjacent...

Continue reading...

Baby girl, what you know about death? What you know is what I sold you. You bought it on your mama’s nickel. Baby girl what you know about hell? What you know is what I showed you.  All pretty faces living the dream. No...

Continue reading...

Christmas – Plum Cake

If you like Plum Cake
Do beware
For unripe plums
Can cause despair

Be very careful
With the flour
Sift and sift but
Don’t take an hour

Add some sugar
But do beware
Sugar is bad,
So do take care

Mix in some 
Butter, this way
Use your fingers 
washed today

Time to mix in
Some luscious...

Continue reading...

Plum' out the city 
And ne'ly in the woods- trees...
Wildlife and dirt roads...

Continue reading...

When you go out to eat 
what do you like to taste?
Polish, Italian, German, Greek, and American
or fast foods made in haste?

I get into Chinese food
from Canton Noodles to Szechuan Steak.
Dim Sum, Spring Rolls, Sweet Sour Duck and more...
Often, I won't even take a break.

Everyone...

Continue reading...

                                            ...

Continue reading...

Plum trees by the corner,
Sole bloom of winter;
With faint fragrance
Adorning the frost.

Poem by Wang An Shi  (1021-1086 ) 
-Chancellor of Song dynasty 1070-74/1075-76

Translation: Brian Chung
purelandsutras.wordpress.com/blog...

Continue reading...