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Overripe Poems - Poems about Overripe
Overripe Poems - Examples of all types of poems about overripe to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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Drinking a Banana
...Unzipping an overripe banana, fingers squished into redolent shush, black skin dripping off the soft stem. I might have to eat this with a spoon, a banana is a berry, I think of this as I wip......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
overripe,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Beware of Most Food
...Carrots are not good for you nor is Ovaltine Beets can make your urine stink Purple onions make you mean Grapefruit's too acidic raw eggs can make you loose Give a kid an ov......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
overripe,
abuse, food, giggle,
Form:
Rhyme
Second - Degree
...There once was a young man, called Jack Leach, Who fell asleep, on a nudist beach. But the sun and fresh air, Soon scorched his derrière. Now it looks like, an overripe peach. ......
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George Seal
Categories:
overripe,
beach, sleep, sunshine, wisdom,
Form:
Limerick
Ultimatum
...This occasion I will be quick use all my every wit and trick fast as a shooting star I will follow, like a mammoth comet I will cut through and not wallow in the dark, lighting the sky, a r......
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Joe Dimino
Categories:
overripe,
extended metaphor, humorous, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Morning News
...I woke up to the sound of the woodpecker, pecking the wood next to the gutter and the barking dogs gallivanting on the side while strangers and community neighbors are gossiping inside. I had ho......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
overripe,
animal, books, destiny, environment,
Form:
Free verse
The Overripe Year
...Leaves fallen in lovely fading colors Light snow is flying the year fast receding now that harvest days are gone Baby bluebirds have grown and flown It's the beautiful, natural way Writt......
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Evelyn Judy Buehler
Categories:
overripe,
autumn, color, nature, november,
Form:
Nonet
Autumn Walks
...I have loved these evening walks through smoldering reeks, ankle deep in haunted litter. Loved the flicker of mottled hawks, flaming across a waterborne sky, the soft mats of moss upon ......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
overripe,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Accession Impressions
...God wears the bling, Its a constitution ting, King Chazza going to fix it, Give the corgis their biscuits, Now he's got the crown He can turn that frown upside down, There's no way his Regal r......
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©
Huw Sherlock
Categories:
overripe,
culture, england, family, political,
Form:
Light Verse
A Poet's Pledge
...I will release no rhyme Before its time. No limerick, ode, haiku, or sonnet Will 'scape from 'neath My poet's bonnet 'til it be trimmed, and tamed, and non-aggressive, Or overripe with verbiage......
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Jim Slaughter
Categories:
overripe,
humor, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Eden Earthed Over
...The apple fell already bitten upon, a mossy soil coated where the tooth-cleaved. Soon grubs worked their way out of the pith creating a teeming mulch. Adam had fallen asleep again, in his gut......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
overripe,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
A Ravening Heat
...All around me the land suffers too much greening. The luxuriant froths over into a feverish lush. Birds cannot consume all the insects. Snakes cannot eat all the birds. The ground hogs on the swi......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
overripe,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Sky Is a Diamond Crown
..."The sky prepares the sun for night where drifting clouds are slowly steeping in tepid pools of waning light" The horizon reveals its colors of a peach's nectar and squeezed overripe l......
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Jennifer Cahill
Categories:
overripe,
allusion, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Posthumous Award
...The dead can still be warmly applauded Who on us in some field had lorded And his overripe honours remembered Which he himself must’ve numbered. A piece of provocation When earnestly it had be......
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Chinedum Ekwobi
Categories:
overripe,
confidence, death, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Pensioner
...A Pensioner An octogenarian - he moved to the retirement home which promised all-year sun, blue sky, and sedate sea. A grey, balding, and stooped figure, his gait is far from firm as he walks.......
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Migel Jayasinghe
Categories:
overripe,
appreciation, retirement,
Form:
Blank verse
Eden Unearthed
...The apple fell to earth. It was bitten through it rolled; mossy soil coated the tooth-cleaved part. Already grubs were working their way out of the pith creating a teeming mulch. Adam had falle......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
overripe,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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