Juiciest Poems

Premium MemberApophasis Now

...Apophasis is such a cool word.
Not to mention how it sounds
like a popping fist and fireworks, 
though I wouldn’t dare suggest
I’ve ever blown things up
just for grins and giggles.

It’s cousi...
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Categories: juiciest, birthday, cat, chicago, firework,
Form: Free verse

MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES

...MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES 

Don’t go back to heavy sleep
dwell in the wakefulness 
of I AM THAT I AM
here mulberries and butterflies 
beckon across filtered fences
which you can comely cl...
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Categories: juiciest, butterfly, change, color, earth,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberWhat the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider

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The house came with ghosts.  
Not the subtle kind, either—no  
wistful sighs or cool drafts,  
just full-blown poltergeist tantrums.  
Cabinets slamming at 2 a.m.,  
spectral remnants of old a...
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Categories: juiciest, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThoughts on Iowa and My Childhood City

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“And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly  - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that equaled them.”  Samuel Clemens in his younger years when he wor...
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Categories: juiciest, places, youth,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberQueen of Paris

...I'd like to be sitting in a café in France 
Eating strawberries and cream with you
I'd find the biggest and reddest and juiciest ones
And feed them to you off my spoon

After we'd stroll down th...
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Categories: juiciest, dream, i love you,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberRoot Faeries Are Going Wild

...root faeries going wild are sniffing with hypersensitive noses today
seeking out the curliest, most delicious, juiciest vines, along the way.
consuming grasses and roots other animals cannot fathom...
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Categories: juiciest, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGifts From Grandma

...Scrambling to get the largest, juiciest blackberries
She did not feel her arm scratches until much later
You look like you jumped into those bushes Daddy said
Thrilled she was baking a cobbler jus...
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Categories: juiciest, grandmother,
Form: Free verse

Animal Crackers

...tap dance temple dancers 
tease a mocha monkey
swinging from a tower
munching chips gets chunky

simian sisters see 
spunky the funky ape
chewing the ruby red
sweetest juiciest grape

roost...
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Categories: juiciest, society,
Form: Rhyme

Gooseberries and Sharp Creases

...GOOSEBERRIES AND SHARP CREASES

The plumpest, juiciest, hairiest gooseberries
My grandfather grew in a circular bed,
Dead centre of the immaculate lawn.
And blackcurrants under ...
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Categories: juiciest, death, grandfather, sick,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberApples Life

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May God hear my prayer
That I achieve my goals today
I buff up my chest
In hope you find me the juiciest 
And swallow me whole
My seeds will flourish
For I am about to commit...
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Categories: juiciest, appreciation, child, cute, funny,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRelatives Re-Inact a Romantic Reconciliation

...Oh, yes, Darling! Please meet me up the street, in fifteen minutes, right past the old tan house with that porch, bamboo.
We need to talk about things, you and me, without your mean relatives, and t...
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Categories: juiciest, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberWildfires Burn In Your Eyes

...You extend the juiciest of apples before my eyes
Imploring, "Come closer, love, and have a bite"
Eden is lost to us and it's too late for compromise
I'll not be tempted to savor forbidden frui...
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Categories: juiciest, sad love,
Form: Rhyme

Better Than

...Better than 

It’s better than chocolate cake
drenched in whipped cream
A day off to sleep in 
almost until noon
A warm summer day 
near a slow moving stream
The stars in the sky
and...
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Categories: juiciest, fun, happy, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAutumn Atonement

...Face to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Mem...
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Categories: juiciest, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october,
Form: Free verse

Babylonia : Part Four - a Babylonian Paradise

...Babylonia : Part Four - A Babylonian Paradise


Come in, come in, all are welcome!
Welcome to Babylonia!  Welcome home.
Every animal is welcome here,
You can be yourself; 
You have no need to ...
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Categories: juiciest, animal, family, friend, heaven,
Form: I do not know?

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