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Gum Poems - Poems about Gum

Chewing Gum
You ever get this idea in your head. This menacing feeling chewing on your brain like that moment you decide to swallow your chewed gum. The insecurity that everything in your life is just plain wrong. You wake up fine or even happy yet with a smile upon your face you sit blindly scratching open...

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Categories: gum, analogy, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Many Uses of Bubble Gum
In my youth, I made A bubble gum ball . . . That over time just got bigger and bigger, usually. It was sticky icky, just like me. It splattered perfectly onto the wall . . . The bubble gum wall! That over time became a work of Art. Always getting bigger, usually. Also, a...

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Categories: gum, 6th grade, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse



Bubble Gum Kisses
our love is like bubble gum kisses sweet and sticky a childish delight a playful game of back and forth wishes holding hands we soar to new heights our hearts beat in sync with every chew an explosion of flavor a burst of bliss with every kiss our love feels anew a moment frozen in time we won't miss but as the gum...

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Categories: gum, kiss,
Form: Sonnet
A blue pop with a gum inside
A field of flowers. A field of miracles. A map of memories. A destination to be determined. A chart inside a labyrinth of the mind. A twitch. A jolt. A lightning bottle. A picture in paint. A remembrance of fire. A color of love, bold and fearless. A dream of hope, timeless and divine. A sweet imagination, a brilliant manifestation. A...

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Categories: gum, hope, imagery, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Life and Times of a Stick of Chewing Gum
A burst of flavor secreted ~ within five minutes deleted ...

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Categories: gum, giggle, life,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Bubble Gum
You may have heard the story of Tom Thumb; and how he was a tiny little boy. But what about his sister, Bubble Gum, she also brought her proud parents much joy. Just one inch taller than Tom, she wasn't tall, but her heart was as big as hearts can get. And she loved picking flowers most of all; rushing to get...

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Categories: gum, beautiful, character, children, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dad Gum It
Pity all of those rest home fellows Over time all their hunger mellows Without their dentures in All their meals will begin Sipping their soup and slurping Jellos...

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Categories: gum, old,
Form: Limerick
Abc Gum
What’s the difference between now and then why was life so much better way back when Might be it was because we had no care when it comes to talking ‘bout how we’d share Whether was clothes, a coke, secrets or shoes or anything else I thought you could use No worries sharing things we were doing we even shared the gum...

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Categories: gum, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gum
If my taste starts to fade, stick around I'm in style Evergreen, Peppermint, did I just see you smile? Chew my wad, blow a bubble Be minty fresh on the double I am gum, chew on that for a while I please and abide like your loyal chum Then you spit me out like a skid row bum But chew me at...

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Categories: gum, humor,
Form: Personification
Flavored Bubble Gum
All kids love bubble gum So, they made a wish and The bubble gums magically came to life And begins to put on a show There's pink aka pinky Grape, cherry and strawberry Pink loves to sing, as she sings She gets bigger and bigger And then floats away And then there's grape, he magical And loves to dance, when he do He turns light...

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Categories: gum, children,
Form: Free verse
Parent Threatens To Withdraw School Child
Promote my Charles to the next class. I know The Idiot did not pass. Yet, I’d tell ears you have to, Whether to it or not prone to… Hundred percent sure you need it, No need digging collective pit: Your school from head to toe Private; Rather few of your staff Graduate Among them A Clark Porter, Who is eyeing my young daughter Some while...

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Categories: gum, conflict, education, evil, my
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swallowing Gum
Anticipation building, excitement on the rise Melodies of heaven as sung through your blue eyes I hope I can keep standing, my knees often get weak Whenever I stand near you, and I can barely speak...

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Categories: gum, love, passion, romance, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Goodie Gum Drops
A small price for, A Goodie Gum Drop It’s taste and flavor, beyond compare One drop and, A smile would appear A nickel a box oh, Goodie Gum Drops No care about cavities For this tasty treat We called Goodie Gum Drops...

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Categories: gum, candy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gumball Machine
Chink! One quarter in the machine ... Crank! Crank! Crank! Gumballs tumble ... Plunk! ... I got one! ... Open the door. Why was it always ... Never the color I wanted?...

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Categories: gum, candy, childhood, color, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goody Goody Gum Drop
goody goody gum drop more than sweets may mean a lot ate a gum drop just popped it in rolled around let it spin left and right hugged my cheeks swashed about then repeats savor the juice sugary delight tickles tongue this tiny bite stuck to teeth once it's in while i smiled big green grin might not be a better thing than this except a warm sloshy kiss 80 words Rhyme 9/22/22 Colored pencil illustration G. Gaul...

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Categories: gum, candy, humor, sweet,
Form: Rhyme

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