Picnic
...the wicker picnic
on a red gingham blanket —
dulce fruit draws ants
watermelon sliced —
summer pepo with black seeds
on white paper plates
6/22/2020
Summer Haiku's Poe...
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Categories:
pepo, fruit, insect, summer,
Form: Haiku
Watermelons
...Watermelons
Dull, thick, green rind with a creamy yellow behind,
From where on the ground, it sat waiting to ripen.
Round the gourd, the melon matured, bursting the gird;
With juicy, swe...
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Categories:
pepo, august, celebration, fruit, summer,
Form: Verse
Nitaolewa Kesho
...Wasema subira yavuta kheri,
Kamba iliyovuta kheri yakatika,
Yakatika na Uzito wa huba, uliojawa na mahaba,
Na safari ya mapenzi, iliyojaza sheheni,
Kwake nimetia Nanga, sihitaji kivuko,
Nasema h...
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Categories:
pepo, 8th grade, africa, bridal
Form: Alexandrine
A White Pumpkin Family Review
...Cotton Candy is a pumpkin who
Is known as White Pepo too.
Her nice rounded shell
She keeps very well,
And one day she met Baby Boo.
Baby Boo is quite small, and at night
He might glow, an albino pur...
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Categories:
pepo, holiday, baby, halloween, baby,
Form: Limerick
Merry Queen of Squash
...Pumpkin, merry queen of squash,
regnant on accord.
With a smooth and ribb-ed rind
clad in pepo-orange,
two strikes to sever
from the vine.
Gourd!
*Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded b...
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Categories:
pepo, food, funny, history, cousin,
Form: Epulaeryu
Pale Calaboose
...Pale zombie pumpkin
Absorbs the lives of *pepos--
Souls try burst out rind.
Pepo--any fleshy gourd fruit with a hard rind and many seeds, as the melon, squash, or
cucumber....
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Categories:
pepo, science fiction
Form: Haiku