Long Pawpaw Poems

What a phlox in you I find,
What a Rose Flower, oh babe:
Bright like early morning sun of xmas.
Succulent “things” like the rightly ripe pawpaw at my backyard.

Oh Babe what a beauty you are to behold...

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            Warmly dedicated to SMJ

      Three Sonnets Inspired by my
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The warm sand trickled through my fingers.
    I wriggled my toes and felt no shoes.
        Opening my eyes and quickly closing them. 
  ...

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'Twas the month before Christmas
When inside the house
The housewife was quiet
There's no sound, not even a grouse

When all of a sudden
There arose such a clatter
Even the Chihuahua came running 
With tail tucked and in a...

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Along with the stench 
From the Vietnam swamp
Lingers many other stains
Far beyond mud and muck

I’ve washed and scrubbed
‘Til my fingers bled raw
Trying to remove the souvenirs
From my uniform cloth.

Splats of blood, of a friend,
Buried without...

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A friend, an uncle, a pawpaw, a father, a husband, a son
   These are a few of the titles you've earned
Precise, concern, loving, pride, hope, appreciation
   These are a few emotions...

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This is a repost
'Twas the month before Christmas
When inside the house
The housewife was quiet
There's no sound, not even some grouse

When all of a sudden
There arose such a clatter
Even the Chihuahua came running 
With tail tucked...

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Yesterday we were happy and free as a bird,
Today with nostagia,we bite our thumb,
Tomorrow we burn midnight oil in tomorrow's aspiration.

Today we give the new veil to a pig,
Tomorrow with bitterness,regret the filthiness.

Today we fashion...

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They float rather than fly with their kite-tailed long wings,
watch them descending on tulips, blueberries and lilacs: 
these butterflies are yellow-green striped and love pawpaw trees;
imagine Nature without their fluttering sounds and stunning colors! ...

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Greg Focker was always an awkward man, 
only fiancée Pam could understand-
Jack would be his in-law,
and soon baby’s Pawpaw,
retired CIA in all the land.

The Focker’s housekeeper was Isabel, 
rumors Greg had an affair and didn’t...

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Apple many varieties sweet and sour
Banana soft fruit many uses
Cherry's are sweet watch out for its stone
Damson like a juicy plum
Elderberry fragrant good in wine
Fig many seeded fruit
Grapefruit similar to oranges but tarter
Honeydew melon lovely...

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Deep in the south, lives the Southern Pine.
I love the fresh pine scent, it’s really quite divine.
The palms adorn the water’s edge, such sturdy summer trees.
As they grow, they will bend and shape up in...

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Paw paws shed was packed very full.
Of different things but mainly tools.
I helped him out to find some nails.
Looking in boxes up high on shelves. 
I looked over my shoulder and there sat a stool.
Underneath...

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Each day I become a victim
Each day I am traumatized

I gave birth to humanity
Yet I am forced!
I raised humanity
Yet I am threatened!

Men think I am pretty
Then why am I there slave?
They say they love us
But...

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PAW PAW ADAGE OF LIFE.

I know this fruit
I know its old nursery rhyme
I love its taste so sweet
The softness and sweetness align

But where thou grow makes me wonder
In bola thou stand amidst dirt
Cheered by smells...

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The cancer note
          For Pawpaw

Every time 
I walked in 
Your hospital room
A smile formed on your face
With open arms.

A priest 
With a bible
Would enter daily
To pray for this sickness
To end
Even though you knew
Your time was...

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A Wonderful Man : You 

I love you for the little things that you do for me .
We wake up everyday to have a cup of coffee to start our day .
When your on the...

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Tom with your fine plummage, strutting for the ladies.
Evoking fear in the children's heart, when you flap and threaten to spur.

Pawpaw evokes fear in your heart, when he sharpens the ax before Thanksgiving and 
Christmas....

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I would sit under the pawpaw tree
And the world would come to me.
They said all you need is a dream,
A pen and a pad to make it beam.

But Mother, in these streets, I see,
A world...

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In the fading august sunset 
I walk out of my mud house  
In my checkered coloured kente
And dazzling wooden slippers.
As the sounds of the drums echo behind
I dance to the tune of its melodic...

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Brother, brother, pray, help me out;
Climb the ladder to the top,
And bring down the pawpaw fruit.

Brother, brother, you got it now.
Climb the ladder down, let us share
And taste the joy of brotherhood.

Brother, brother, bring forth...

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