Cherry Pie
...The taste lingers,
A thought conveys
Childhood at its best,
The idea hovers
The feelings engender
The deeply converged experiences in my chest!
I remember the fruit
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Categories:
muscadines, appreciation, childhood, fruit, happy,
Form: Sestina
Sowing
... He sowed his wild muscadines
They grew wild and free
Soon returned to haunt him
When he was thirty-three
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap....
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Categories:
muscadines, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
A Gardenia Nosegay
...Cape Jasmine
One last white blossom
Memories
Of our youth
You brought three green stems with buds
Fragrance filled the room
Long ago
When you desired love
Memories
Flood my min...
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Categories:
muscadines, love,
Form: Shadorma
Mulberry
...mulberry to wine
colored muscadines hang, wait....
life-mate brings hand full
Combination Haiku and Senryu...
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Categories:
muscadines, blessing, love,
Form: Haiku
Secret Garden
...A secret world of mystical wonder
In solitude, she will sit and ponder
Beneath a rainbow. Behind a golden gate
No track of time or clocks to run you late
Honest as the garden of Eden, a b...
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Categories:
muscadines, dream, fantasy, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Christmas, Minus One
...We said our goodbyes in June,
and the months since blur into mist.
At unexpected moments, awareness
of loss hits; tears spill unbidden.
Family gathering, Christmas Eve
as usual . . . minus on...
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Categories:
muscadines, childhood, christmas, food, fruit,
Form: Free verse
Eyes Wide Shut
...I wanna go to Martha’s Vineyard, eat muscadines and drink wine.
I want my belly to swell with the fruit of our love.
I wanna drive on full and eat fillet mignon for breakfast.
I wanna live l...
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Categories:
muscadines, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
Question
...Has anyone ever hear of the expression or slang for wild grapes or wild
muscadines? Something like bulletses??I can't find it anywhere and I am sure
that I am not spelling it correctly...It is w...
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Categories:
muscadines,
Form: I do not know?
Ripe Muscadines
....
Ambrosial essence
To the eyes nose palate...
Deer...
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Categories:
muscadines, animals, food, funny, husband,
Form: Haiku
Work of July August Reward
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August muscadines
Bronzing in July sun
Soon_________...
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Categories:
muscadines, food, imagination, nature
Form: Monoku
A Day At the Little Beach
...Walking down the graveled path
For a day at the little beach;
We picked up ripened persimmons
And purple muscadines along the way.
Butterflies fluttered around my wife.
Blazes of color lie under...
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Categories:
muscadines, childhood, family, father, children,
Form: Free verse