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
'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
A 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
Fruits
...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
'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
Three 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
North 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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