Best Sugariness Poems

A cup of coffee is turned
into theorems, each taste,
sugariness, and density
carrying its own problem.
He sees his wife as a collision
of equations in time and space…...

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Lemons,
their squeezed
juice
that trickles
down
the chin,
and slides
through
the fingers,
is the
sunlight 
that
warms
an
April
eve'
for
the first
time
since 
the previous
April.

Lemon-
drops
are
sweet,
and you
want
to 
just look
at 
their 
sunny 
sugariness,
hold one 
like 
a little 
jewelry bead-
and 
in
your
mouth 
every suck- 
one 
after 
the other 
like you 
string the beads-
one 
after 
the other 
on 
a 
long 
thin 
string 
the color...

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pie
delightful, delectable
appealing, appetizing, appeasing
sweetness, sugariness, acidity, acerbity
retching, regorging, regurgitating
brackish, brinish
fly

NB: This is purely my own reaction to eating flies. I understand it’s quite the delicacy to some. To each his own ... :)

14 January 2023
Delightful Diamante Poetry Contest
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