as embers glow on wintry nights
candy canes and x-mas lights
truth gives way to summer’s steam
carousels and caramel cream
what fancy leads me on to dream
of sugar plums in frozen cream
O, free me from this August's blight
encase the world in beams of light
Categories:
plums, freedom, light, summer, sweet,
Form: Couplet
plums are not my common fare
I really love them
they are tangy and zesty
I like their firmness
and their rich sweet taste
delicious
plums
Categories:
plums, food,
Form: Epulaeryu
Visions of sugar plums dancing in a child’s head
Refused to join the slumbering neonate or get near the bed
But you have to do it! It’s in the song, the clock sang out.
The sugar plums stuck out their tongues and ran out.
Where are the sugar plums? People asked all over the world.
They did not visit any children, ran away, dreams all unfurled.
Let’s dream of video games, the resilient children began to say.
The cry went through the forest and mountains; they saved the day!
Categories:
plums, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
plums
scrumptious
deep purple
leathery bite
prunes
Categories:
plums, food,
Form: Lanterne
Plums! What delightful treats
Purple ones very good
Please let's eat, big red ripe
Plump, straight from the shapely
Pleasing green stocky tree
People like them simply
Prepared as royal's fare
Date: 04/09/2021
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Contest: Pleiades P
Categories:
plums, food, nature,
Form: Verse
As the old broom glides across the floor
Sweeping up remnants of lunch's crumbs
Someone rings the bell at the den door
I leave dog hair, spilled food and come
My love greets me with a pan of plums
Categories:
plums, love,
Form: Quintain (English)
A child up past your bedtime sat and stared,
a penny now for what you're thinking,
in the garden snow was scarce,
you saw the sculpture slowly shrinking.
You didn't pay attention
when in those mid-winter thaws
the sculpture upped and disappeared,
for there was Santa Claus!
the Tooth Fairy! the Easter Bunny!
all are real to you right now,
sparking your imagination,
causing you to giggle.
Those presents, candies, shiny quarters
made your young heart sing with joy!
Much later, as a loving father,
you'll relive these wondrous dreams,
and enjoy them with your kids,
these wondrous dreams
so well remembered,
of the days when you were just a boy.
Categories:
plums, christmas,
Form: Verse
A child up past his bedtime sat and stared,
a penny now for what he's thinking,
in the garden snow was scarce,
he saw the sculpture slowly shrinking.
He hadn't paid attention
when in those mid-winter thaws
the sculpture upped and disappeared,
'cos there was Santa Claus!
the Tooth Fairy! the Easter Bunny!
all are real to him right now,
sparking his imagination,
causing him to giggle
for those presents, candies, shiny quarters
made his young heart sing with joy!
Much later, as a loving father,
he'll relive these wondrous dreams,
and enjoy them with his kids,
these wondrous dreams
now well remembered,
of the days when he was just a boy.
Categories:
plums, fantasy, easter, giggle,
Form: Verse
To preserve this day, I pick red plums wild
Within my soul, I dream a while
A vision ancient, to me smiles
Of plums growing wild in thickets dark
There for taking by man or lark
Beside running waters where beaver barks
I hear the drum for miles
Smoke signals lifting high in sky
On summer's breeze they drift and sigh
Indian village steals my eye
Women gathering, pounding, grinding
Saving fruits for summer's ending
In cakes for winter's cold day feasting
'Round evening fires, high and dry
Painted ponies heading west
Hunter's talismans cover chests
Put their knapping skills to test
Not one willing to be the lag
Arrow drawn to down his stag
Rights this night will be to brag
Whose spearpoint flew the best
Allegiance to "Great White Father" sworn
Many moons later, treaties torn
Their ways, their days, their hopes forlorn
For wild plum cakes and venison stews
Thought safe in tepees 'neath cold skies blue
Sore gleaning here in peaceful view
For them I shall forever mourn
While picking I shall forever mourn
Categories:
plums, dream,
Form: Ballad
where are all the blossums?
they've all vanished and
green leaves
will soon hide sweet plums
Categories:
plums, nature
Form: Haiku