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Gumdrop Poems - Poems about Gumdrop

When Madness Grins

...When Madness Grins

When madness grins, the mirrors blink,
And all the clocks begin to drink.
Time forgets its careful lines—
And paints the air in crooked signs.

Mice wear monocles to preach...
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Categories: gumdrop, adventure, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLollipops And Gumdrops

...All the boys and girls 
run to her soft call;
Like a howling wind
is how it beckons,
they cannot resist;

Sweet lollipops 
young lips tickle;
Saliva builds 
for a gumdrop;

Enduring 
the ...
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Categories: gumdrop, candy, childhood, horror, howl,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse



Flowerpatch Portals

...The way to a girls heart 
                        seems to be sour candy? 
              She loves the way it puckers her lips. 
       She get's talkative, "as if", a Sleeping Beauty. 
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Categories: gumdrop, angel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Was Playing Thunderbirds With My Kids and Forgot What Thunderbird 3 Was, So Asked the Lifeguard

...he was unaware
wolf
which was disappointing
never attempt to move or donkey punch
the empire state building

ten years of planning
ten years of shrooms
ended with puppets
and strings like ca...
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Categories: gumdrop, 8th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPaddy

...Paddy

His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short!  He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co...
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Categories: gumdrop, dog,
Form: Prose



Premium MemberYou Can Be Anyone You Want To Be

...You can be anyone you want to be! The teacher said.
I want to be a marshmallow.
I want to be a frog.
I want to be a daisy.
I want to be a computer.

The teacher stopped the kindergarteners.
Yo...
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Categories: gumdrop, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPaper Airplane In a Gumdrop Sky

...I was paused at a blood red light,
across from a clapboard church
          with a sign 
"English services available".
Off to the side I saw a chubby kid
clumsily attempting a cartwheel...
afte...
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Categories: gumdrop, age,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBox Canyon Candy Land

...Box canyon candy land,scrawled upon its walls 
the first children's book-illustrated by the ancients~
Glazed by queen frosting and a gingerbread man
A jolly blind man with a gumdrop candle stick 
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Categories: gumdrop, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Little Known Holidays Occurring On February Fifteenth

...Little known holidays occurring on February fifteenth...,
awaiting commercial sponsors to become...
what else...,but hand over fist money makers?
(http://www.holidays-and-
observances.com/februar...
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Categories: gumdrop, america, appreciation, celebration, february,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFrom Our Perch In the Gnarly Gumdrop Tree

...Greeting the day's offerings, we cat souls 
Were watching for scampering voles and moles.
Five vigilant cousins and I, perched up high,
watching the sun rise in the eastern sky.

From our perch ...
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Categories: gumdrop, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification

Candy Castle

...A candy castle so tasty and sweet
made out of the most delectable treats.

Peppermint domes that swirl red and white,
glisten and shine in the the glorious light.

Licorice steeples, to the sky...
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Categories: gumdrop, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Things You Can Do With a Pen

...In the world of the pen
Anything is possible
No task to daunting 
No destination out of reach

From five years old to ninety five 
 The pen can take us anywhere

The pen can be a source of gr...
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Categories: gumdrop, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Sanmati My Inspiration

...Sanmati, my messenger, is no more a milksop.
Ardent though is she never will yawp.
Nagging sometimes though in some shop.
Merrily walks in crowd alone till atop.
Amends her needs; tackles one wit...
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Categories: gumdrop, daughter,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberOnce Upon a Time Two Gumdrops Dissolve

...Once upon a time two gumdrops dissolve


once upon a time
there were two gumdrops
she was purple, he was yellow
they were complete opposites
they both worked at a hotel
on a white sandy beach...
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Categories: gumdrop, allusion, break up, conflict,
Form: Narrative

Sweet Little Gumdrop

...SWEET LITTLE GUMDROP
BY: JONATHAN W. HOPKINS

SWEET LITTLE GUMDROP,WITHOUT ANY SHAME,A CHRISTIAN GIRL FROM HEAVEN CAME. HER FATHER AND MOTHER LOVE HER DEARLY SO, SHE SHINES AS BRIGHT AS ANY RAINBO...
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Categories: gumdrop, care,
Form: Free verse

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