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Pawpaw Poems - Poems about Pawpaw

I would sit under the pawpaw tree

...I would sit under the pawpaw tree
And the world would come to me.
They said all you need is a dream,
A pen and a pad to make it beam.

But Mother, in these streets, I see,
A world that's swallo...
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Categories: pawpaw, confidence, courage, life, write,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member'Twas One Night A Month Before Christmas

...This is a repost
'Twas the month before Christmas
When inside the house
The housewife was quiet
There's no sound, not even some grouse

When all of a sudden
There arose such a clatter
Even th...
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Categories: pawpaw, age,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA tropical island

...The warm sand trickled through my fingers.
    I wriggled my toes and felt no shoes.
        Opening my eyes and quickly closing them. 
              The bright sun blinded me for a moment.

The...
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Categories: pawpaw, beach,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFruits

...Apple many varieties sweet and sour
Banana soft fruit many uses
Cherry's are sweet watch out for its stone
Damson like a juicy plum
Elderberry fragrant good in wine
Fig many seeded fruit
Grapef...
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Categories: pawpaw, fruit,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium Member'twas the Month Before Christmas

...'Twas the month before Christmas
When inside the house
The housewife was quiet
There's no sound, not even a grouse

When all of a sudden
There arose such a clatter
Even the Chihuahua came ...
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Categories: pawpaw, life,
Form: Free verse



A Wonderful Man : You

...A Wonderful Man : You 

I love you for the little things that you do for me .
We wake up everyday to have a cup of coffee to start our day .
When your on the road we talk on the phone , at home w...
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Categories: pawpaw, friend, i love you,
Form: ABC

Pawpaw Adage of Life

...PAW PAW ADAGE OF LIFE.

I know this fruit
I know its old nursery rhyme
I love its taste so sweet
The softness and sweetness align

But where thou grow makes me wonder
In bola thou stand amids...
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Categories: pawpaw, 3rd grade, confidence, conflict,
Form: Tail-rhyme

A Feast In Ashanti

...In the fading august sunset 
I walk out of my mud house  
In my checkered coloured kente
And dazzling wooden slippers.
As the sounds of the drums echo behind
I dance to the tune of its melodic s...
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Categories: pawpaw, adventure, africa, celebration, culture,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThree Sonnets Inspired By My Reigning Ex

...            Warmly dedicated to SMJ

      Three Sonnets Inspired by my
                       Reigning Ex


Part 0
Sitting at the edge of the universe
like a man atop ...
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Categories: pawpaw, girlfriend,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberNorth Americas Southern Trees

...Deep in the south, lives the Southern Pine.
I love the fresh pine scent, it’s really quite divine.
The palms adorn the water’s edge, such sturdy summer trees.
As they grow, they will be...
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Categories: pawpaw, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, earth,
Form: Sonnet

Is Pam To Be a Mother Focker

...Greg Focker was always an awkward man, 
only fiancée Pam could understand-
Jack would be his in-law,
and soon baby’s Pawpaw,
retired CIA in all the land.

The Focker’s housekeeper was I...
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Categories: pawpaw, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Cowboy Boots

...Paw paws shed was packed very full.
Of different things but mainly tools.
I helped him out to find some nails.
Looking in boxes up high on shelves. 
I looked over my shoulder and there sat a stoo...
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Categories: pawpaw, care, christian, emotions, encouraging,
Form: I do not know?

Irony of Life

...IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE WHY SOME OF US RUSH FRUITS LIKE APPLE, RIPE PAWPAW, MANGO, ORANGE AND MANY MORE. 
WHAT I DON'T GET IS WHY FEW OF US STILL CAN'T DETATCH OURSELVES FROM FRUITS LIKE LIME AND LEMON
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Categories: pawpaw, betrayal, crazy, deep, emotions,
Form: ABC

I

...Each day I become a victim
Each day I am traumatized

I gave birth to humanity
Yet I am forced!
I raised humanity
Yet I am threatened!

Men think I am pretty
Then why am I there slave?
They...
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Categories: pawpaw, abuse, community, discrimination, fear,
Form: Light Verse

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: pawpaw, fruit,
Form: Free verse

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