Homespun ice cream
homespun ice cream
for children of all ages
~ love on a spoon
AP: 3rd place 2025
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Categories:
homespun, appreciation, children, food, fun,
Form: Haiku
Homespun
Simple- homespun poems
no fancy ribbons or satin bows.
Her words taste like earth
a landslide of the soul
unbridled
"Come ride my wild bucking mind
if you dare" she cackles.
The reader sits bare-back
nibbling her words like snacks.
There's no tricks or perfume.
Only soul sweat, the musk elephant of truth...
trumpeting fearless in the pride filled mist.
No forced rhyme or syllable cages.
A she
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Categories:
homespun, butterfly, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
homespun, allusion, fantasy, humorous, introspection,
Form: Senryu
Homespun Wisdom
Got sent to the principal's office
Sex Ed teacher made the call
Said I didn't raise my hand,
and spoke out of turn
That I said some racy things,
that had the whole class giggling
Well, Mr. Principal, sir ...
I simply said my parents told me
that sex don't work like that
They said before you go ripping your clothes off,
and jumping in
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Categories:
homespun, humorous, parents, parody, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse
Homespun / Maine 2004
Nostalgia draped the counters and walls
The smell of bacon sizzled in the air.
Diners in baseball caps and ponytails
noisily chattered there.
The grill popped
to the teakettle’s screams
To harmonize with the babies cries
sitting on their Daddies knees.
Time drizzled by on the Chevy Belair clock
like the syrup on my Johnny cakes
while the waitress kept a pouring coffee
to the bikers,
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Categories:
homespun, nostalgia
Form: Quatrain