Margaret And The Tiffany Hat
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She wore a tiffany hat with a bow and six big plumes of red and white,
it had an ultra wide asymmetrical brim that rolled up to one side.
When it came to dames like this I believe God ran out...
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Categories:
elderberry, analogy, humorous,
Form: Narrative
The Night Sedans
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Lumbar ladies stroll by as the night sedans plunder the ho-dad hostels.
Looking to find nothing except another dozing cigarette beyond the cadenzas.
Another hot afternoon in suburbia with the r...
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Categories:
elderberry, car, memory,
Form: Free verse
let s talk about jams
...Il existe une confiture de myrtilles,
Ne parlons pas de la succulente confitures de mûres,
De la marmelade d’oranges, de la confiture de rhubarbe,
Il existe des confitures rouges, des confitures v...
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Categories:
elderberry, 9th grade, food, relationship,
Form: Free verse
elderberries
...vines wrapped around fence
neatly kept and freshly picked
elderberry pie...
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Categories:
elderberry, food,
Form: Haiku
Fruits
...Apple many varieties sweet and sour
Banana soft fruit many uses
Cherry's are sweet watch out for its stone
Damson like a juicy plum
Elderberry fragrant good in wine
Fig many seeded fruit
Grapef...
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Categories:
elderberry, fruit,
Form: Abecedarian
Couch Potatoes
...Couch potatoes never see the light,
Seldom produce real potatoes,
Or much else that is palatable.
They leave switches on 24 seven,
And don't know what is the purpose of an off switch,
Resulti...
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Categories:
elderberry, analogy, baptism, care, celebration,
Form: Burlesque
Blackberries, Blackberries
...Blackberries, blackberries, what’s the big deal?
They’ve too many seeds, and they give me no thrill.
They’re actually tart and they’re only sweet when
placed into a pie. Are they even good then?
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Categories:
elderberry, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
Grandmother's Hands
...As a child I would place my closed eyes
in them
while she hummed Gaelic melodies.
Her smock, it was brown
like a butchers apron
but without a speck of blood,
just daubs of fruit dumplings
an...
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Categories:
elderberry, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Heart Is On An Island
...My heart is on an island
Half a continent away.
It’s not a hot and sunny isle
With palm trees all asway.
The trees are oaks and maples,
The winters cold and raw
The waves pound on the beaches,...
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Categories:
elderberry, appreciation, beach, change, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Berries In West Gippsland Scrub
...When fishing is slow, there is time to think,
or I go for a walk, kneel down for a drink,
take note of the trees, the vines or a shrub,
exhibiting berries in - West Gippsland scrub.
Some of the...
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Categories:
elderberry, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Kosher Wines
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There are numerous kosher wines, and they are usually sweet.
Without them, a Passover seder meal cannot be complete.
Among the flavors of wines are blackberry.
Another popular kind is ma...
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Categories:
elderberry, drink, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Bully For You
...Loosely based on the movie Arsenic and Old Lace.
I’m sure you’ll excuse the rambling for that is what
the movie was like — an adrenal rush of dark and crazy!
Teddy Roosevelt: “Bully for you.”
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Categories:
elderberry, crazy,
Form: Light Verse
The Two Elders
...Alike an Elderberry tree and conspicuous
not a Honeysuckle sweet vacuous
we ripen with antiquity
an intoxicating aroma of iniquity
Folklore spirits rhyming in chant
Elder-mother wood nymph wit...
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Categories:
elderberry, fruit, health, tree, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Grandmothers Hands
...As a child I would place my closed eyes
in them
while she hummed Gaelic melodies
neither she nor I had words for.
Her apron, it was brown
like a butchers smock
but with not a speck of blood u...
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Categories:
elderberry, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Blue- -
...Skies above they are true
aqua color spaces water you
Midland coastland views
sweetest shoots blueberry grapes tomatoes
Damson, Concord grape,
Elderberry Black currant, Plum, Berry black,
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Categories:
elderberry, blue, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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