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Best Sorghum Poems

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Premium Member Barn Dance
The moon is bright, and the chores are done
Tonight's the night to have some fun!

The harvest in, calls for a night's hell-raisin'
Take me out in...

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Categories: sorghum, funny, happiness, old,
Form: Free verse



I Miss
In the midst of fiery crises
I miss cool, shady oases
O, Fountain, spring forth your fresh water
revive my land to evergreen

O, Abdim's storks, will you perch...

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Categories: sorghum, deep, desire, feelings, future,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To My Grandmother-Jane Mvula
[This is an advanced version of a poem
that I wrote on the 5th of February 
2008,
titled "The 15th of June" in
commemoration to my late 
Grandmother,
Jane...

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Categories: sorghum, absence
Form: ABC
My Favourite Dish
It tastes like heaven, with dripping cheese,
Pizza tempts me like sorghum does bees.
Mouth is overwhelmed by the deliciousness,
I am completely allured by the lusciousness.
Delectable, scrumptious,...

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Categories: sorghum, food, me,
Form: Rhyme
Postcards From Ecuador
The end dear friend is just the entry and he pointed, but he never meant me, it was the old man sat inside me that...

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Categories: sorghum, best friend, betrayal, books,
Form: Rhyme



A Dream of Summer
(after Giosue Carducci)

I dreamed of gentle things. My freshman year, 
a room where sun poured in, freedom from books, 
the thundering carts on cobbles in...

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Categories: sorghum, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
The Man Called Christ
In his day he came riding on a colt
As he came by a unique name called Christ
His life spiced the world with eternal salt
And made...

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Categories: sorghum, christian,
Form: Sonnet
From Abor To Columbus
Gods of my Birthwaters
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my soul) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go with me)...

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Categories: sorghum, adventure, introspection, people, tribute,
Form: Blank verse
Shadow Eyes
As I walked through the valley of shadows
A west wind kicked up leaves all around
But the ground had an absence of shadows
Moon and stars were...

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© Ben Burton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorghum, anxiety, fear,
Form: Rhyme
The Fall My Zipper Broke
The fall of sixty-three, an incongruity!
I saw myself on a Queen's float, a title rare -
"Miss Sorghum" of our Hancock County fair.
I aced the talent...

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Categories: sorghum, 11th grade, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Snippets From My Past
To my hometown of the sixties, I plunge in reverie,
recalling where I found myself in nineteen sixty-three.

Each fall, the biggest thing going  - was...

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Categories: sorghum, 11th grade, celebration, culture,
Form: Couplet
Work In Progress 2
Fun fact ...got a birth mark the size and color of a watermelon seed on the right lower cheek of my butt.
Hence my theme song...

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Categories: sorghum, family,
Form: Free verse
Wind Down
that indian, he ain't come to town
still, summer's started windin' down
you can feel it in the air some how 
this season's seasoning, time to avow

do...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorghum, life, love, nature, love,
Form: Couplet
Ladders Move Me To Laughter
The fall of sixty-three, I envisioned myself
"Miss Sorghum" of our Hancock County Fair.

I aced the talent phase on piano
but needed practice crossing a makeshift stage...

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Categories: sorghum, child, fate,
Form: Free verse
I Don'T Know
Indefinite infinite confused calm why I'm rambling on cathartic release from a rebellious thorn bloom bloom says he I don't know feelings spinning sprinkling doubt...

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Categories: sorghum, abuse, allegory, allusion, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs