Sol
...SOL’S A SHINING
Sol’s a shining,
And dog is laying around,
For on this day
Winter has made her home in residence,
And bought another dimension to feeling
Adding to a wonderful time of year,
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Categories:
papaya tree, appreciation, celebration, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Blue Jay
...A cerulean jay
perches
atop a papaya tree.
One goitered old woman
preens
a bright comb
in chartreuse hair....
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Categories:
papaya tree, bird, imagery, tree,
Form: Imagism
The Aloha Spirit
...like linen sheets upon a clothesline breathe
air circulates through our home
Pearl City Oahu
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a small fenced in yard bumps the busy road
where a papaya tree grows
along with my...
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Categories:
papaya tree, beach, family, ocean,
Form: Kimo
Hidden Beauty
...The able had plucked all the yellow on top.
They had carted away with all the lemon too;
Left only the green on the papaya tree.
The lame came and left with the green they met.
On the dinner-tab...
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Categories:
papaya tree, fruit,
Form: Free verse
Dance of the Fruitflies
...Outside my window is a papaya tree,
loaded with fruits mostly green
awaiting maturity for consumption
while smaller ones ripen from corruption.
One papaya fully matured almost yellow,
camouflaged by ...
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Categories:
papaya tree, analogy, beauty,
Form: I do not know?
Remains of the Papaya Tree!
...You chew your papaya like you chew her head.
Callous and savagely,
You take out each seed, like you did of hers.
Each seed she sowed in you, you spit out from your soul.
You think you can slice a...
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Categories:
papaya tree, life, loss, love, people,
Form: Personification