Best Spoonful Poems

(This is a universal story of mother’s sacrifice for their children, be it material, emotional, or intellectual.)


It was during the Korean War
Father was taken away by the Communists
Months ago
He never returned

Mother and I were left alone
In an island as refugees
Without anyone supporting us

One day
Mother brought...

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Big things in small packages, so goes the phrase
       And astounding, a spoonful of snow, in such ways

A thousand frost miracles, and identical, none
       Innumerable prisms making rainbows from sun

Each with its detail...

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"A Spoonful of Sugar"


Upon waking
the green hangover
hangs low waiting 
for the weeding

the alarm sounds
like thunder 
the cats on the prowl
they’re hungry

the words 
spill out of my mouth
like a spoonful of sugar
stirred into a deep cup 

of strong black coffee

my cup runneth over
anything for a new...

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We scratched and scrapped and piled it together,
thin as cobwebs, like molted bird feathers,
spread out on the frozen lawn,
a gossamer frosting in early dawn,
a meager, stingy December snow,
hardly enough to foster a glow
from the Christmas lights candycane twirled
about the evergreen swags softly whirled.

A new sled...

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a spoonful of snow
chills a Christmas brandy toast
new year another...

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Garlic by the spoonful
each and everyday.
Garlic by the spoonful
by you the others won't play.
Garlic by the spoonful
is heart healthy indeed.
Garlic by the spoonful
is exactly what I need....

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Enveloping
Consuming me
Overwhelming to say the least
Won't you hold me?!
Won't you hold me closer, please?!

Growing older, such a farce
Peripheral maturity
Melts away by the time you're on your knees
The harder we become
The more devastating a single crack can be

Enveloping
Consuming me
Overwhelming
To say the least
Won't you hold me?!
Won't you...

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Dash of snow flutters to the ground
And lands O  gently all around;
White as velvet quilt of feather
To drift  upon Yule's iced heather:
Bare now after Queen Winter's hand
Covering lanes from bright hues grand;
Which transforms the pines with finesse
And silver stars of gracefulness.

Yet night gleams...

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came from smoky bars                                         ...

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even ugly poetry can seem tasteful ~ when penned elegantly...

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on a hot summer afternoon,
dreaming silently, wistfully, achingly…

a frosty dish, glistening…
chilled by the freezer cold
ice cream, blended with heart shaped
scarlet strawberries, sweet
silhouettes of promises…

scrumptiousness sliding over my tongue
making me sigh, breathless
as the whisper of soft white clouds
gliding through a smiling azure sky…

giggling, laughing, delighting
in the...

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Oh, Christmas Day is creeping up on us,
my decorations sure do look lovely;
on my street the blinking lights are breathless,
   I sure do love Christmas;
but, I need some white stuff called snow, badly!

All the leaves have fallen to their demise,
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A  Spoonful of Snow
It's Christmas time, see
But doesn't have to be
Just as long as I'm doing
It's wintertime and it's snowing

When it snows it's flakes white
White as the clouds soaring in flight
Glitters so on the ground shines bright
Days and nights
Snows falls suddenly don't hear a...

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A SPOONFUL OF SNOW

                        A spoonful of snow, just to glow
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On Thanksgiving I ate hardly anything 
Some sliced turkey and a spoonful of nothing 
My appetite was killed 
When my dear wife had spilled 
All the gravy for the turkey and stuffing...

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