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Maraschino Poems - Poems about Maraschino

tribute to red

...red
stop sign
ruby gem
scarlet apple
crimson satin gown
maraschino cherry
delicious strawberry pie
1957 lipstick
pop needed in every piece of art
mamie’s petticoat from gone with the wind...

Categories: maraschino, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Etheree

A Paean To Bacchus

...Happy May Day, all you PS boys and girls...EVOE!

Squeeze a cherry and let it sit,
And don't forget to take out the pit.
Let it ferment,
At least a day as a rule,
To give it some zing
And a ki...

Categories: maraschino, humor, may, wine,
Form: Light Verse

Baxter Street Monday

...Anti-Poem — “Baxter Street Monday”

me trudging walking
gripping onward forward 
traipsing baxter street monday 
and its steep inclines
going up like a dizzy sparrow
passing vertical merry go ...

Categories: maraschino, life, memory,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Cherry Blitz

...The beam and delicious chomp of cherry.
The contemplation of a banana split dream.

My lovely, so pretty, adorning a manhattan.
The fruit does fatten the red of one’s cheeks.

Oh! Oh! …and thos...

Categories: maraschino, food,
Form: Rhyme

My Feelings For Haagen Daz

...Cold icy frozen dessert in colors of all kind
I have sixteen favorites in the back of my mind
They give me brain freeze for they are full of frost.
Give me my most favorite pure Haagen Daz.

Pea...

Categories: maraschino, food,
Form: Rhyme

Wheel On a Stick Part 1

...Dos Cabezas Getaway     

Coming of age film about Boy Baby Wally found wrapped in a 1943 issue of "Farm Implement" magazine abandoned screaming in a Last Chance gas station toilet on Route 711 Wes...

Categories: maraschino, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Sweet and Sour

...SWEET AND SOUR

morello cherries
sweetened-sour beneath warm crust
scoop of cold ice cream
only whipped cream tops my pie
a centrifugal design

royal anne cherries
preserved...

Categories: maraschino, senses,
Form: Tanka

Fruitcake

...Fabulous ice box ease
Fruit dried, sticky so sweet
Folded into Graham's
Famous brown cracker crumbs
Finely chopped nuts~yum! yum!
Famished come visit, stay
Fainthearted go away  

Us...

Categories: maraschino, food,
Form: Free verse

Etruscan Smile

...my soul is the shape of a bloodstain
poured there by Nadine Maraschino
my right eye sits
in the ruby voodoo goblet
that she wears upon her head
Nadine was a 3-toed egg laying harpy
from the cau...

Categories: maraschino, humanity, slam,
Form: Free verse

Pears Harlequin

...(Glorified Pear Honey)

The lowly pear,
no zip, no burn.
Major juice, anemic flavor.

Add orange and lemon for bite.
Grind all to blend.

Add sugar for sweetness,
cook, covered, in 200 degr...

Categories: maraschino, food, fruit, sweet,
Form: Free verse

Inappropriate Attire

...It is the evening I have waited for, 
stiletto heels three inches high adorned my feet,
real nylons hung from garters beneath a
skin tight, leather skirt of maraschino cherry-red.
A blouse of white s...

Categories: maraschino, lust,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Banquet

...Plaid of red and white 
has been smoothed o’er grass;
feet have been freed
from Mary Jane flats.
Above, the sun, secretly admits
their smiles have triumphed 
over the brilliance of his rays.

...

Categories: maraschino, food, happiness, life, nostalgia,
Form: Pastoral

Valentines Java Thirst

...Mornin coffee thinkin of you!
Simmers thoughts of a wonderful brew,
as dreams of romance percolate into view!
Such an awesome aroma I sense,
if we were to become more intense!
How's about a warm slow...

Categories: maraschino, inspirational, love, visionary, me,
Form: Rhyme