Best Watermelon Poems

That was the summer...
Of watermelon fields, and hot, humid days
Of suntanned traces, and mosquito-bit faces
When the purpose of knees
Was to be skinned
Of running down a country road
Bare feet on hot asphalt
Criss-crossing across an open field
Helping ourselves
To thick pink crimson chunks
That melted cool on sun-parched tongues
Dribbling...

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Whopping big or small sized -
With inside red flesh of
Wonderful sweetness, this
Weighty fruit’s percent of
Water is ninety-two!
Wow! That’s great hydration.
Wish I had some right now.

May 10, 2021
For Kim Merryman's Pleiades W Poetry Contest...

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On a summer’s day
A slice of watermelon
Under the hot sun....

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Watermelon slices.
That smell so ripe and sweet.
Take me back in time again.
When mother sliced the treat.

Sitting in the kitchen.
With the window opened wide.
Spitting watermelon seeds.
Out to the other side....

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Fresh Cut Grass Smells Like Watermelon


When I cut my grass
Early in the morning smells
As a cool melon

written by James Edward Lee Sr.
10/16/17...

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That half grown chrysanthemums/
Stirring up like accuser's.
Life is compared with what two things ?
Which do you think is the richer more revealing comparison ?
Poets use many symbols/
Geese flying south can be a symbol,
Of that of approaching winter/
Heart's symbolize love,
In this brief expanse we call life,
One...

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honeyed flavor drips
        on watermelon’s core, pink
          flesh sweetening mouths
…a zing like nectar's fragrance
to thrill when popped rind gushes

breaths taste moist syrup
    earthy aphrodisiac
  ...

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There once was a man who was a felon
Who had just stolen a watermelon
But when he swallowed a seed
A little girl decreed
I think maybe your belly is swellin'...

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Green striped globe, trailing vine,
your glories I relate;
summer fruit, taste divine,
you grow in southern states.

Thick, heavy rind confines
the richness we await
sweetened by hot sunshine,
red joy upon my plate.

To choose well I refine
the skills which help equate
what hides in green shrine--
pick best one in the crate.

yellow...

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sweet watermelon,
banana with pure honey 
oh! Bishwanath Spring...

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When I Was A Small Fry,
My Father Would Often Try,
To Tell Us Stories All About Life,
 
One In Particular,
Sticks Out In My Mind,
The Story Of Watermelons And Their Rind,

We Were Told To Never Swallow The Seeds,
That The Watermelons Sweetness,
Is All We Should Eat,

He Informed Us,...

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Watermelon Memories

When summer time comes around
Down memory lane is where I’m bound
Time to get some watermelon
Not the kind the stores are sellin’
But the kind that Grandpa grew
Pink and juicy through and through
We’d go down to Uncle Thurman’s farm
Where I fell under Thurman’s charm
That was down...

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W-watery 
a-appertizing
t-treat
e-enjoyable
r-red
m-memorable
e-eatable
l-likeable
o-on a hot day
n-neutrision...

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What are the odds against a white man turning black overnight?
After Jeff Gerber went to the bathroom, he was full of fright.
At that image in the mirror, he could not help but stare.
Where he should have been, there was a black man standing there.
Jeff told...

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STEEL AND SILK

My love like steel and silk
      cuts through you 
            splutters your blood
              ...

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