spring springs
...Winter’s releasing us from its perpetually gray and gloomy grip.
Who can study in their room, on a beautiful spring afternoon?
Azaleas assail ya, with champagne petals of bubblegum fuchsias,
the...
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Categories:
honeydews, appreciation, color, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme
Vacation All I Ever Wanted
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Crystal waters plumping the honeydews
and cascading through amusement park ride.
As tourists engage in espionage
in Duckburg at Knottsbury farms.
As graves of self sufficiency,
Communes of ba...
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Categories:
honeydews, art,
Form: Free verse
Lily Letters of Jasmine
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Dear grandma,
you were my litchi s u n r i s e,
encasing stars in honeydews of h e a l i n g,
as d a w n s used to wake up
from deep s l u m b e r with
th...
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Categories:
honeydews, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Ka Ho'Opa'A Kala
...Heqtit spoke to the People
Who's selfishness: wishes to smear the
need of these people. Who strands there
own individual want to compromise the
need of people.
He stood before them and we a...
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Categories:
honeydews, daffodils, dance, music, myth,
Form: Bio
Receptions
...Lisa and I went to a reception, yesterday evening, for students who’d landed summer fellowships at a particular hospital in Boston. (Yeah us!) It wasn’t formal, so I wore a crimson cropped sweater, a...
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Categories:
honeydews, career, humor, leadership, school,
Form: Free verse
The Sweetest Melon
...At the fruit stand, in a box,
Were melons that, to me,
Were unfamiliar, not the
Ones I’m likelier to see.
No cantaloupes? No honeydews?
The fruit guy shook his head,
But pointed to the box wh...
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Categories:
honeydews, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
Vows Beneath the Moon
...I will steal a million star kisses
from the farthest point of the abysmal sky
Pluck them like the strings of my guitar
then lay them at your feet in a basket of thorny wilderness
wild and laden ...
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Categories:
honeydews, beautiful, desire, emotions, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Words of Love
...Words of love have many spills, harboring heartbreaks in their chills,
Birds of song upon yonder hills, singing sorrows amongst the daffodils…
We get lost within adoration, whirlpools...
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Categories:
honeydews, betrayal, conflict, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
To Eat Apeach
...To Eat A Peach
Spring is here.
The delicate tree blossoms replace
the delicate white lights of Winter.
From the petals fruit will grow.
Pears, plums, apricots, cherries,
nectari...
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Categories:
honeydews, anniversary, body, change, courage,
Form: Bio
Seasonal Color
...Why can’t you stay? Your pretty views
are skies’ cerulean and the blues
of sweet wild blooms that I can see
beneath a sun that shines for me
like lemon crests on cockatoos!
Watermelon and hone...
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Categories:
honeydews, color, summer,
Form: Rondeau
Atop the Ice Capped Mountain
...Atop the ice capped mountain
Residing in my cup
There flowed a creamy lava
A marshmallow cover up
The snow was flavored chocolate
Though the vast selection varies
With choices ...
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Categories:
honeydews, humor, summer, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
Honeydew, I Love You
...Of course I love you, the slang phrase Yo, men flirting O, sumptuous U, curse words aches to demolish the beauty of you, sweet sticky substance found on plants she's my honeydew, the sweetness of som...
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Categories:
honeydews, love,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Tell
...You like black beans
I like red
You like parties
I like bed
You like me and I like you
We'll sell everything else
'cept our honeydews....
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Categories:
honeydews, life,
Form: Burlesque
The Abode
...There was a sunny spot in my eye,
a region of riots and ripples,
a cause for resplendence
in mosaic mysteries
and myriad myths;
Tendrils and creepers,
ivies and myrtles
and an emblazoned bli...
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Categories:
honeydews, love
Form: Free verse