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Lychee Poems - Poems about Lychee

lychee

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 round  bits of sweet  flesh
     lychee spurts juicy nectar ~
gobbled in seconds...

Categories: lychee, fruit,
Form: Haiku

23rd Psalms: Path to Righteousness

...Mom of 13 siblings was the last to pass. Behind a hung draped sheet that parted the bedroom she was in, from the living room, she saw Grandpa prepare wooden crates used to pack mangoes, guava...

Categories: lychee, bible, death, faith, family,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Blue Shotgun Lantana

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"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." 
Charles Baudelaire

"Smell is...

Categories: lychee, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Lambent Maze Nomad

...Lambent 
Lychee leaf lambent
lilac layered loadstone ledge 
lachrymose lagoon
  
Maze
Milky moonlight maze
mystic marvel magnet moults
magic mother’s muse

Nomads 
Nightingale nurtures 
n...

Categories: lychee, art, beautiful, birth, caregiving,
Form: Alliteration

Quotidian Fever

...I dream of magic lines but they  elude me.
Chapbook on acrylic tube  palette, janus-faced cave in 
at the crack of dawn,
crescent moonlight awnings turn to  circus of the  soul, 
images that colo...

Categories: lychee, change, creation, dedication, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry

My Fruit Basket---

...my fruit basket---

apples, bananas
fruit in my basket spring fresh
oranges, pears, dates

elderberry limes
lemons kiwifruit kumquats
honeydew melon

gooseberry grapes, figs
Marion berry, ...

Categories: lychee, analogy, appreciation, fruit,
Form: Haiku

Snapdragons and Dandy Lions - Part 1

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"Snapdragons and Dandy Lions (Part 1)"


“Don’t move,” she smiled gently,
“stay there, stop fidgeting, let me put these in your hair”,
I was sitting cross-legged 
on the lush green blu...

Categories: lychee, childhood, daughter, joy, love,
Form: Free verse

With Such Longing

...Inside a bamboo garden, where I followed a red-crowned crane 
an exotic treasure of another sort held me spellbound 
seated upon the lawn, a courtesan beauty there did reign. 

Guilty, I stoo...

Categories: lychee, desire,
Form: Villanelle

Element Earth Gaia's Gift

...I stand here looking out across the land
At sun kissed pineapple plants row by row.
Green tops on red earth outwardly expand.

Rich volcanic soil filtered throughout time
Has grown many harvests...

Categories: lychee, beauty, earth,
Form: Rhyme

Unicorn's Gala

...Invitations to the Gala
issued by a grave impala
were highly sought out missives 
by the bold and the submissive 
Those omitted uttered curses
shook angry fists or heavy purses
Had they but kno...

Categories: lychee, fantasy, imagination, red,
Form: Imagism

A Summer Fruit On a Winter Night

...on a winter night
I tasted a summer fruit
under the blanket

pulpy and juicy
soft like a peeled red lychee
her luscious wet lips

lost in her softness
I explored new horizons
beyond...

Categories: lychee, love, passion,
Form: Senryu

Basundia

...Basundia, a glittering wonder of untamed raw Nature,
The pastoral splendour that reflects Eden in miniature.
The claret lychee-yards that stoop, stoop, stoop, stoop
With its branches, bunches that lo...

Categories: lychee, nature, peace, places,
Form: Pastoral