Best Wintergreen Poems

Wintergreen bubblegum, 
Alaska spearmint slick
Saliva cool trickling down
Hot like Kansas big red
cinnamon tongue
Fingertips 
Lust & summer fire,
US nowhere and desire...

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wintergreen mints
the taste of
teenage kisses



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on June 22, 2018...

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wintergreen berries
summertime foraging
~ youthful memories



posted on May 12, 2020...

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(A Christmas Collage) 

The sun has set and night is stealing
Softly o'er the silent land,
While snowflakes slowly down are falling,
Shaken from an unseen hand.

To the...

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My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
     from the vineyard of En Gedi.

Song of Songs 1:14 NIV

he is...

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Wintergreen leaves of frozen tiffany, encased within
Crystalized ice cycles are the delicate roses of youth.
Tender shards easily shattered or creaked by 
Betrayals heavily handed anvils...

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Resorting nature of Years and year's,
Moving miles and miles,
Life is just a bit of moments filled with sheer joy as I share it with You,...

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The Visit

Dimly lit room with flowered wallpaper, 
bridal chamber for a couple, 1920.
In her noontime daydream she could see back then.

Coal dust between her fingers,
a...

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I have found the treasure
that lies at the Rainbow's end;
surrounded by Sweet William, for-get-me knots,
and crimson shades of velvet rose.

Near the cottage of old where...

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   I close my eyes- 
Remembering your touch
   Breathing in
Your rain dampened leather…
   Your after shave and wintergreen
All those...

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Billows of a winter snow blowing through my curtain window 
all I sweet remember is the way the willow tree smelled 
that creamy, sugary, wintergreen...

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Tossing mints in a t-rex mouth,
his calamitous breath smells good,
as the terrible lizard rolls you South,
delighting in his wintergreen food.

Thankfully this monstrosity of a sweet-tooth...

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I fell, I fall;
I’ve fallen into fall;
Cool brisk warm autumn;
Windblown leaves to the ground-bottom;

A time when the leaves ;
On the tree leave;
Colorists’ red, yellow’s brown’s...

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Near the Singing

Christmas is coming
Christmas is near
Near the wintergreen tree
Near his fearful dreams
Dreams of hope
Dreams of peace
Peace and quiet
Peace to men
Men who rage
Men who try
Try...

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My baby has bi-lateral bonbons.
She modulates her rhythm side to side.
She’s a twenty-mule team moving violation,
Her motives pure as borax, her methods bona fide. ...

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