Memory Candy Poems

Sixty years have passed.
No one knew how to spell its name.
No one knew when it first opened.
It was forever, like the infernal summer heat.
It stands...

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It will remind you of alchemy 
how taste and image don’t align; 
Lypophrenia hits you,
best friends the county fair;
Memories play back 
while snacking on 
those...

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A liquorice sweet has a real variety
has been popular for many years
liquorice allsorts are everyone's fav
such a mixture makes one hit the gear

A cold remedy...

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         brings back memories,
    ...

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Playing with my shadow, I was perhaps about seven.

I had shiny pennies in my pocket,  I think about 
eleven.

I can still hear their sweet, glorious ring!

I...

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       Riding on the Merry-Go-Round,
       And being six or just seven.
      
       I...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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in all human history this is being said now
as the flies gather about my corpse
and its waiting Molotov cocktail booby trap
we all feast upon what...

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                     Cotton Candy



   ...

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I remember my first kiss,
When the body shuddered,
When it seemed that the lips were humming…
That kiss was like nothing else...

Maybe just a little rain,
Or to...

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I dreamt of cotton candy
One in the hand is kind of handy
Just take a bite
And chew it as you might
Then it melts in your mouth
As...

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Muddy Water's Gramma gave us licorice

I walked the old Kenwood neighborhood with my twin little brother and sister in tow,
'hold there hands and look both...

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oh
  so
    delightful
is that 
thought,
it
brings
   memory
      alive
with
remembrance
of
those
yesterdays,
precious
as
  diamonds,
tangible
to touch

inspired by clip of Debussy...

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a reflection
  upon the
      water
a memory
    surfaces
    stirs
    stimulates
then
silence
 ...

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Candy Crush is a computer game that people like to play
But Candy Crush to me was revealed a different way
My adrenaline would flow, there would...

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