Plums Poems - Poems about Plums

my love of plums

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

sugar plums refuse to dance

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

Categories: plums, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

plums

plums
scrumptious
deep purple
leathery bite
prunes

Categories: plums, food,
Form: Lanterne

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Plum Blossom Haiku Ii

Are you the butterfly
while in my dreams
I flit after Soshi?
—Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

It's not at all anxious to bloom,
the plum tree at my gate.
—Kobayashi Issa, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

The red plum's fallen petals
seem to ignite horse dung.
—Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Intruder!?
This white plum tree
was once outside our

Categories: plums, animal, butterfly, flower, innocence,
Form: Haiku

Plum Blossom Haiku I

These are my modern English translations of haiku about plum blossoms, plums and plum trees. 

Picking autumn plums
my wrinkled hands
once again grow fragrant
—Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Clinging
to the plum tree:
one blossom's worth of warmth…
—Hattori Ransetsu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

On adjacent branches
the plum tree blossoms bloom
petal by petal—Love!
—Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation

Categories: plums, autumn, love, nature, spring,
Form: Haiku

Plums

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

So Many Plums

This was the year for an abundance of plums,
the fruitlets spared by the absence of frost.
  The tree was leaning, the branches drooping
  with a curtain of fruit downward plunging.
Such was the challenge of so many plums – 
how much could we cope with? What would be lost?
  Each gust of wind

Categories: plums, fruit, humor, wine,
Form: Verse

The Pan of Plums

 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)

Visions of Sugar Plums

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

Categories: plums, christmas,
Form: Verse

Visions of Sugar Plums

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

Categories: plums, fantasy, easter, giggle,
Form: Verse

Red Plums Wild

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

Categories: plums, dream,
Form: Ballad

Plums

where are all the blossums?
they've all vanished and
green leaves
will soon hide sweet plums

Categories: plums, nature
Form: Haiku