Long Gumdrop Poems

Paddy

His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short!  He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a...

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Once upon a time two gumdrops dissolve


once upon a time
there were two gumdrops
she was purple, he was yellow
they were complete opposites
they both worked at a hotel
on a white sandy beach
with palm trees swaying on the...

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The way to a girls heart 
                        seems to be sour candy?...

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Little known holidays occurring on February fifteenth...,
awaiting commercial sponsors to become...
what else...,but hand over fist money makers?
(http://www.holidays-and-
observances.com/february-15.html)

Excess Valentine's surplus sweet treats
and assorted paraphernalia
need not go to waste
said sappy accouterments
can be repurposed

quickly without haste
less pronounced celebrated...

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It seems like forever ago
That I jumped for joy at the first snow
The billowy mounds shining low
Glistening like diamonds on paved roads

As pure as a small child's heart
All that's evil, still in the dark

Making forts...

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On strange days
like these
baking cookies
is an arcane art.
 For it is winter outside
how we transform
the inside
into mystic summer.

For i know the golden ratio.
i have surrounded
myself with graduated cylinders
that recall the lore
of  cups and ounces.

Retorts...

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Using the snow to make white chocolate,
And we cheerfully waltz down a sponge street. 
As we melt away in the sweet, sugary clouds, 
I can't wait for our hands to meet! 

Because you're so sweet,...

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Beyond five-color-banded rainbow is fairyland
nestled deep in fragrant flowered valleys.
Comforting breezes flow when giant wings expand
flying baby blue skies over gumdrop alleys.

Sweet confetti sprinkle marmalade mountain peaks
towering high above cotton candy clouds.
Cool chocolate milk flows...

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A candy castle so tasty and sweet
made out of the most delectable treats.

Peppermint domes that swirl red and white,
glisten and shine in the the glorious light.

Licorice steeples, to the sky they ascend.
with Fruit rolls ups...

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In the world of the pen
Anything is possible
No task to daunting 
No destination out of reach

From five years old to ninety five 
 The pen can take us anywhere

The pen can be a source of...

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The times are changing,
and it doesn't help that
there are millions of people
seeing a rock and thinking
a poem, and a stained glass
window stretches across
everything, to break language
apart at the seams, because
one man's tears, are another's
fury, a...

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Greeting the day's offerings, we cat souls 
Were watching for scampering voles and moles.
Five vigilant cousins and I, perched up high,
watching the sun rise in the eastern sky.

From our perch in the gnarly gumdrop tree,
We...

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I was paused at a blood red light,
across from a clapboard church
          with a sign 
"English services available".
Off to the side I saw a chubby kid
clumsily...

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Heartbroken but in love

Run, run, run,
I'm not Cinderella
Not the gingerbread man
Not dressed in yellow
No gumdrop buttons
Already kissed a fellow
My hearts still rotten
Getting hurt all over
Heartbroken but in love
Broken like a glass slipper
Snapped like a gingerbread...

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Neath, all willows soft and charm 
 Many are lost held from harm 
 Gumdrop lane shows the opal hidden trees as far as they can be 
 If you only believe? 


  


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My sweet baby please don’t cry
You’ll be safe and warm all through the night

Let magic dreams fill up your head
Cuddle up in your soft little bed

In enchanted kingdoms sail your dreams
On a paper ship on...

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Whispers surrounding every inch of her reckless body,
She hands the gumdrop to a stranger,
The gumdrop learns to walk and talk,
The gumdrop slowly potty trains,
The gumdrop goes to kindergarten,
The gumdrop falls on her head.


The gumdrop joins...

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Just I,

maybe a little  different ,but really not shy,

biography  I imagined of an ordinary guy,

not scary,

drop by,

same old story from the same old friend,

ever thought of what it would be like ,ah, 

to...

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he was unaware
wolf
which was disappointing
never attempt to move or donkey punch
the empire state building

ten years of planning
ten years of shrooms
ended with puppets
and strings like cave cheese
and shreddies

we were alone in the pool
the lifeguard looked like
satan's...

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