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Liqueur Poems - Poems about Liqueur

Premium MemberBe Merry Rondelet

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Come be merry 
on the streets of the French quarter.
Come be merry,
plum liqueur and praline whiskey.
We’re the oldest brick and mortar,
drink and have an appetizer.
Come be merry.
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Categories: liqueur, business, emotions, places,
Form: Other

Son of Sleep, Father of Thunder

...Weeping walls of heralded hallows,
Sweetless seam of darkening shadows,
Seldom son of sickening honour,
Shall bring, shall bring, this darkening hour.

So sweet, so sweet, this tallowing cower,
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Categories: liqueur, birth, child, death, father,
Form: Quatrain



Exposed

...From this angle the bushes do not conceal them.
Are they hinged or unhinging?
Each body is a prison gate for the other,
both seem stuck together by a pungent lip spit.
Feathering fingers pulse-pl...
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Categories: liqueur, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member- Field Of Forgiveness -

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    The badger entering the underground labyrinth
    it is impossible to discover the stars at night
    In the drowsy dark caves of the mind
    trying to maintain the truth safe in the memo...
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Categories: liqueur, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member2 Squirrels

..."Ralphie, Big Yellow. Ralphie, get up here it's Big Yellow!" 
"I'm not as excited about Big Yellow as you are. I've made this quite clear."
"But the STOP! The STOP, Ralphie! We made a bet!"
"Brend...
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Categories: liqueur, animal, nature,
Form: Free verse



Baby's First Brush with Alcoholism

...It runs in the blood, you know.
The mind may forget, but the body remembers
There are things you'll try to shake and fail for years
Etched in the nerves for generations to come

Love you grandpa...
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Categories: liqueur, drink, grandfather, introspection,
Form: Free verse

when the lights dim

...When the light dims


The man in the lunch café drank 3 tall glasses of wine
he spoke loudly trying to draw attention to himself
not that I'm an expert, but he was, clearly divorced and
on holi...
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Categories: liqueur, absence, abuse, age, write,
Form: Blank verse

Premium Memberthe 3rd floor

...This was last Saturday night. We were at a rooftop party in downtown New Haven thrown by ‘DocHouse.’ Doc-House is kind of a frat-house, owned by Dr. Melon, where he and seven doctoral students live. ...
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Categories: liqueur, humor, school, social, student,
Form: Free verse

My Drunken Lover

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I fell in love with a Drunken Poet
When with light My Grail He fills
Lyrical Creativity intercourse with pen and paper spill
With Rhymes and reasons salutations 
Filled so full, Colorful My i...
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Categories: liqueur, adventure, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Martial Translation COQ AU VIN

...Martial Translations

Coq au vin (Cook or wine)
by Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

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Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe,
but are you merely an éclair to ...
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Categories: liqueur, addiction, drink, food, house,
Form: Epigram

What Happened To My Friends

...I have no friends left, 
In this town,
Will you be my friend?
You, the little Prince
Living On the planet B 612?

Will you be my friend?
The robin
Gracefully singing
When I Walk?

I have n...
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Categories: liqueur, absence, friendship, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

French Cakes Are Delicious

...All French cakes are delicious, better
The “ Amandier” and its subtle nuts taste in the mouth,
The “Paris-Brest”, with its sweet praline cream,
Rum Baba, with its sweet taste of liqueur,

The “t...
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Categories: liqueur, dad, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLaughter

...Laughter
 
Laughter knocks on the doors of tragedy selling snake oil.
Its remedy has no cure, 
but the symptoms from consuming its liqueur are delightful.

There are all sorts of...
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Categories: liqueur, celebration, cheer up, games,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWalking Hand In Hand

...She danced into my life three years ago
as if she'd been born with Angel wings.
My granddaughter, Eloise; a star aglow,
twirling in a ballerina skirt as she sings...
words of Taylor's...
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Categories: liqueur, granddaughter, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIt

...I’ve got it - woot! 
Well, we’ve (Lisa and I) have it. The Covid.
After living carefully serpentine lives - for the last half decade - we both have it.

Lisa started feeling pun...
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Categories: liqueur, family, fate, friendship, health,
Form: Free verse

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