mellifluous euphonious
...Muscadine Sauce
2 Lbs. of muscadine grapes or
6 cups halfed grapes
1 1/2 cups of muscadine grape juice
1/2 cup of strawberry wine
1 tablespoon of ground ginger
2 T lemon juice
1/2 cup of sug...
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Categories:
muscadine, music,
Form: Ballad
Sweet Mude
...Sweet Muse
Dream of dreams, your moonlit eyes
The way you smile; oh, that grin
Wonderful, waiting surprise
Waits behind those eyes, within
The depths of your sad soul
Longing for the to...
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Categories:
muscadine, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
A Rusty Locket and Muscadine Wine
...In the hush of twilight’s gentle embrace,
A locket swings, a whisper of grace.
Its surface tarnished, like memories confined,
Yet within its heart lies love intertwined.
Muscadine wine ...
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Categories:
muscadine, love, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Bliss
...In the shade of wild trees
grew muscadine vines,
and in our Tarzan youth
we would swing out
on them from the top
of cliffs over the creek
sixty feet below and we
did notfall down,
but ...
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Categories:
muscadine, war, youth,
Form: Free verse
Truth
...I had a brain like an old motorbike,
I rode it back and forth
just to get laid by whomever, and that strange one
who kept cats under her long skirt.
Truth is a marmalade calligraphy.
I yodel b...
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Categories:
muscadine, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Truth Is
...The truth is –
mango
mildew, marmalade ghosts.
I have a brain like an old motorbike,
I ride it back and forth
just to get laid by you, and her, and that strange one
who kept cats under her l...
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Categories:
muscadine, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
My Mama and Papa
...My Mama and my Papa. They're good and kind, pure and refined.
Sixty-three years together, their loves become genuine.
Like sweet expressions of art; Papa a poem and Mama a song.
With me, they sha...
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Categories:
muscadine, age, devotion, first love,
Form: Imagism
Confused Caroline
...Oh my precious lady Caroline
Confused as a peach on a grapevine
She Forgets to think
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Categories:
muscadine, fun,
Form: Limerick
The Muscadine Grapes
...the muscadine grapes
unpruned in the fall season...
grape crop diminished
the muscadine grapes
unpruned in the fall season...
bird nest among vines
the muscadine grapes
unpruned in the ...
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Categories:
muscadine, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Country In Me--Redux
...Muscadine grape vine
entwine...smell of bovine
forest edge
sedge
briars growing down the line.
I love the country
The country loves me
I’m as rock solid planted
As my hundred year old tree...
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Categories:
muscadine, people, old, love, old,
Form: Free verse
Moonshine
...Goin’ north, cross the line
sell a bit of muscadine, homebrew,
and moonshine
steal my horse, but not my stein
got to have my muscadine, homebrew,
and moonshine
probly shut me up fur nine
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Categories:
muscadine, funny
Form: Rhyme
In the Cellar
...In the cellar, by the stair way, is an old jug of muscadine.
It brings back sweet memories of an old friend of mine.
We used to chat and play chess to fiddle the time away.
It mattered not the und...
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Categories:
muscadine, lifeme, old, me, old,
Form: Quatrain
I Love the Country In Me
...Muscadine grape vine
entwine...smell of bovine
forest edge
sedge
briars growing down the line.
I love the country
The country loves me
I’m as rock solid planted
As my hundred year old tree...
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Categories:
muscadine, devotionold, love, old,
Form: Rhyme
Muscadine Grapes
...The Muscadine Grapes
Ripening on the vine
Little tart but fine
Water was scarce so
They didn't have chance to grow
Soon they will be ripe...
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Categories:
muscadine, nature
Form: Haiku
Stink Bug
...Have you ever had a black berry bush
Drooping with wild fruit that you were hungry for,
Only to be driven away by
A swarm of wasps encircling its briers?
Have you ever picked up a plum off the ...
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Categories:
muscadine, lost lovefruit, love,
Form: Free verse
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