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Mesquite Poems - Poems about Mesquite

Premium Member Prime Rib
...Prime Rib Prime rib bone in, marbled fat Spiced with garlic cloves Smoked slowly on a grill with Mesquite wood chips till Center is slight pink Melts in my Mouth! ......

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Categories: mesquite, food,
Form: Epulaeryu
A Pull, A Return
...The snake coils in the sun, spectacles sheathing her eyes, trunk warming against the earth. They say she feels nothing, only the hiss of hunger, the strike of instinct. But watch— how she lin......

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Categories: mesquite, art, change, color, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Night View
...Night View I sit by the fire with a lone lamp, dimmed, so my eyes can watch the astronomical wonder above me. A small mesquite fire to warm my bones in the chill night air. A new moon to not......

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Categories: mesquite, night,
Form: Ekphrasis
Of Cairns and Kivas
... Of Cairns and Kivas The cairn went together without effort - each stone calling out to be next to take a seamless place among the others, and when they were all in place, each making their......

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Categories: mesquite, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Return from Desert
...Back from the desert and loving it both the visit and the return. The powerful plane deiced in Chicago. Brittlebush, difficulty distinguishing acacia from ironwood. Mesquite, and plenty of palove......

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Categories: mesquite, cancer, home, music, power,
Form: Free verse



Where Ah Whoo
... By Letra Compas and Armonia Escala It sequence lacked luster she found it more interesting to exaggerate the middle to make a more engaging plot to detail the characters intent making ant......

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Categories: mesquite, adventure, celebrity, creation, film,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member 12 Days of Christmas From West Texas
...On the twelve days of Christmas, West Texas gave to me twelve tarantulas creepin’, eleven javelinas diggin’, ten jack rabbits jumpin’, nine skunks a stinkin’, eight mantis prayin’, s......

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Categories: mesquite, animal, bird, christmas, environment,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Know a Place of Silence
...I know a place of silence Where one can roam about - Touch the height of peace And watch the morning crown. It's a place well-hidden - Where no worry survives - Where no thoughts break in And ......

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Categories: mesquite, nature, places, religion, silence,
Form: Rhyme
A Hot July In the Texas Hill Country
...Across the valley, salted with the distant sands of the Sahara, I hear the raucous song of summer’s cicadas. As a counterpoint, dry Texas mesquite trees offer a sullen crack like old men requiring th......

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Categories: mesquite, allegory, anxiety, day, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member November Hunt
...November Hunt David J Walker I drink coffee in the morning and I’m grateful for the warm flowing Of Rich and bitter/black liquid from The cast-iron percolation jukebox Perched on the edge......

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Categories: mesquite, allegory, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mesquite Threshing
...During your twirling soliloquy & throbbing zeal for endless dalliance beckon me will come again & again to your eyrie on ......

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Categories: mesquite, analogy, appreciation, beauty, cute
Form: Other
Premium Member Whispering Memories
...Traveling through the doorway in my heart I emerge Gently closing it I place my palms on the worn hinges of time I lay my ear near its surface As I let my lips hover close Grazing the wood with......

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Categories: mesquite, appreciation, emotions, green, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Smok'N
...Slap Ya Mamma all over And soak 'em in beer Next morning smell the mesquite Sizzle-juce and fat Impregnate the air Love smok'n Mmmmmmmm!......

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Categories: mesquite, addiction, celebration, food, love,
Form: Epulaeryu
Premium Member My Garden BBQ Summer Menu
...Friends have an open invitation, dusky sky, soft rock music~ It’s all part of the experience of barbecuing—I Am Anaya Rustic charred mesquite fired up Aromatic smoke Sweet g......

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Categories: mesquite, food, summer,
Form: Epulaeryu
Favorite Things
...Coffee, & Egg Whites, & MesQuite Smoked Up Brisket... & Pancakes so good... that I don’t miss the biscuits. That's hormone-free Butter & the most luscious cream.... these are a few of my......

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Categories: mesquite, food,
Form: Free verse

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