Healthful Poems

Premium MemberPure Imagination And Fantasy

...There once lived a one eyed girl who had twenty twenty vision 
she used her imagination each time she turned on the television

One peeper would sleep while the other one looked and looked ...
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Categories: healthful, child, creation, emotions, wisdom,
Form: Couplet

JUNE BERRIES

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Juicy and sweet, these berries delight,
Unique flavor with a hint of almond's bite.
Native to North America's land,
Eaten fresh or dried, both are grand.

Baked into pies or made into jam,
En...
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Categories: healthful, fruit, june, native american,
Form: Acrostic


Premium MemberAn Interview with the Color Purple

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Hello, everyone. Today we welcome the famous color Purple to our show. 

Hello. I’m so happy to be here.

So, tell me, Purple, Why do people refer to prose sometimes as purple?

Ha!...
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Categories: healthful, color,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberMarch A Symphony of Change

...March strides in, bold and bright,
A bridge between the chill and light.
Its winds may howl, its skies may cry,
Yet whispers of spring begin to sigh.

The **Spring Equinox** takes the stage,
Da...
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Categories: healthful, beauty, march, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Upon the precipice of an abyss

...Upon the precipice of an abyss

I stand able, eager, & ready to jump
impossible mission to swallow lump
muscles primed analogous to pump
prayer for soft landing on mine rump
bereft this johnny ...
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Categories: healthful, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberOne of My Biggest Addictions

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I’ve always been a foodie.
So many foods do I love,
but there’s got to be just one
I never get enough of.

It’s popular as a snack.
It can be salty or sweet.
Do you think you know by now?
B...
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Categories: healthful, food,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDelphic

..."The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me." Ralph Waldo Emerson

I lie upon the forest floor
In motion with the lull 
Of the wind’s instrumental snore
Around and...
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Categories: healthful, birth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOne Wild Flower

...A wild flower, grew up through
a crack in the pavement, I wondered,
why already not trampled
by so many preoccupied feet?  

Sat I down on a 
park-bench, further pondering this yellow
charmer,...
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Categories: healthful, courage, cute, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHealthful and Delicious Tea

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I never used to drink sweet tea,
and neither did I drink coffee.
The one drink that my mother made
was the 60’s stand-by, sugar water called Kool-aid.
I never liked it much; I wanted pop instea...
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Categories: healthful, drink,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGreen

..."But green's the color of spring  
And green can be cool and friendly like
And green can be big like a mountain
Or important like a river or tall like a tree" 
Verse from Bein' Green by A...
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Categories: healthful, green,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberAutumn Beyond Doubt

...A feast of eye-catching hues swirl midair,
stoic fragile leaf a chill whisper,
overt orange, deep vein red,
pallid yellow, scaly amber,
jumble upon bright clad jumble,
earthbound mattress on a g...
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Categories: healthful, autumn, creation, earth, environment,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberMy Favorite Soup

...When I was young, Mom mixed tomato juice
with beans and ground beef; I would misconstrue
this liquidy deliciousness as soup.
Later I was told chili is a stew!

That’s because most people make it...
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Categories: healthful, food,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberZucchini

...I do not like the taste of zucchini,
          so might I please suggest
      we have instead fettuccini?
                    That dish has zest!

Zucchini is considered a veggie
          ver...
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Categories: healthful, food,
Form: Rhyme

All Seasons

...All seasons are healthful,
                but we can succumb
                of so much love before
                summer heat...
                We can let ourselves be contaminated
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Categories: healthful, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Earth Seeks To Entertain

..."The sounds of Earth Is the Music of my Soul"


Earth Seeks to Entertain

No sound pleases me like falling rain.
When it drums on my roof
It banishes my every pain.
Its little drops both chee...
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Categories: healthful, care, creation, earth, music,
Form: Rhyme

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