Divine Delight
...What a cameo in the hot harmattan eve !
Sweet soursop scents marinated with the haze
And all the other ones impasse in my qui vive .
Words became satisfying minting juice ,
Black with currents...
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Categories:
papayas, beauty, bible, color, faith,
Form: Free verse
I Woke Up On A Tropical Island
...Is this a dream? A hallucination! An Illusion!
Is this Beelzebub's magic-mystic-mirage fusion?
Is it a paradise? Nirvana! Stratosphere! Heaven!
Am I in a psycho-physical eerie cloud seven?
I fo...
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Categories:
papayas, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Fruity Men
...THE FRUITY MEN
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In shades of ebony, they stand tall
Like Greek gods, muscular and all
Their skin like midnight, rich and divine
With strength that rivals the sweet...
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Categories:
papayas, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Pinas Papayas Mangoes
..."piñas papayas mangoes"
the street
vendor
sings
the
title of
this poem...
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Categories:
papayas, color,
Form: Free verse
Parrot Pandemonium
...Green! This is what comes before me when I think of parrots.
Aren't, yet, red, blue, indigo and mix of all their merit?
Mingling midst moss-green leaves; moving like calm breeze midst them,
Pa...
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Categories:
papayas, bird, nature,
Form: Couplet
Wave Bye Bye
...I loved the cool, blue-green seas, and was most at home on crystal water,
As earth, forever in the pale glow of a moon, looks fondly to its daughter.
I had always been a strong swimmer, for I'd l...
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Categories:
papayas, adventure, beach, fantasy, lost,
Form: Couplet
Apple Pies
...“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Apple Pies
A welcome task past wayward primes where plucked delights
yon mangoes, gu...
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Categories:
papayas, creation, inspiration,
Form: Prose
A Flashback of the Day
...After coming back from church last night, wishing everyone a Happy Easter, my sister's only wish was to watch The Greatest Showman. So, my mother and I took our seats next to her and watched, right i...
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Categories:
papayas, conflict,
Form: Prose Poetry
Haunting Fruits and Innocent Wishes
...Thanks to Muhammad Imtiaz for allowing me to work with him to create this piece. I added a bit of fantasy to his real life experience. He was moved by seeing poverty up close in a Souk (Market) in Pa...
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Categories:
papayas, boy, confusion, journey, poverty,
Form: Prose Poetry
Haunting Fruit and Innocent Wish-2b
...Continued from 2A
My mind drinks in the smorgasbord that lays before me
Baskets of mangos, papayas, apricots
Red and green peppers
Nuts and dates in white porcelain covered metal bowls...
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Categories:
papayas, desire, food, humanity,
Form: I do not know?
Five Papayas and a Basket
...Five papayas and a basket
Are brought by Granda Mel;
The sweet fruits are given
To her five friends very well.
The first fruit is handed to Raquel,
A good poetess from Lebanon;
Her heart i...
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Categories:
papayas, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Ink
...Multiply a horseradish with a jar of mustard and gain what exactly? A pickled onion? A beetroot? It's simply quite fascinating the divination of an oven glove. Materialistic bacon joints in a suit ca...
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Categories:
papayas, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Deliberately Delivering Designed Deities
...Twenty-three metres. An elephant leap. Vast leg spasms and sporadic duties to a tiled polished floor. Fire formatting finishing frames. And a pyrolysis of a purple strand of hair in a sinkhole waging...
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Categories:
papayas, arabic, basketball,
Form: I do not know?
Element Earth Gaia's Gift
...I stand here looking out across the land
At sun kissed pineapple plants row by row.
Green tops on red earth outwardly expand.
Rich volcanic soil filtered throughout time
Has grown many harvests...
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Categories:
papayas, beauty, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Dominica
...Dominica
Gawaine Caldwater Ross
We share melons and papayas
beneath a sun benevolent.
A salty breeze, the river is cool,
and the passion flower blossoms
are fragile but rich. We stroke
their...
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Categories:
papayas, romance,
Form: Blank verse
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