Play on Words
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Man in French is ” homme”;
drop the “h” and add a “p”
“homme” becomes “pomme”,
an apple. And if I’m not mistaken
isn’t that how the first “homme” got
got to know “la pomme fatale”?
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Categories:
pomme, word play,
Form: Light Verse
A Play on Words
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A man in French is ” homme”;
drop the “h” and add a “p”
“homme” becomes a “pomme”,
an apple. And if I’m not mistaken
isn’t that how the first “homme”
got to know “la pomme fatale”?...
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Categories:
pomme, dark, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Refurbished Fairy Tales: The Real Skinny on Snow White
...!!!CAVEAT LECTOR!!! This one's a bit naughty, dear readers...
You've heard of Snow White
And the story reported
Of the seven wee dudes
With whom she consorted.
Well, here's the actual skinny
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Categories:
pomme, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Pomegranate
...Arid, bony-shanked carapace.
Shiny, weathered patina
tells of desolation,
Belies any promise of richness;
Yet when inverted,
Becoming regal.
A tatty, crown implies
The ancient purport.
T...
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Categories:
pomme, desire, fruit, life, passion,
Form: Free verse
Punica Granatum, Not So Fast
...PUNICA GRANATUM
Yes, in Paradise, Adam and Eve ate pomegranate
No, to apple-etymology - No, to The French "Grenade"
No, more or less 613 seeds (sorry Pharisees and thy 613 Law)
Yes, Malum Grana...
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Categories:
pomme, appreciation, beauty, god, nature,
Form: Clerihew
Spice and Vegetables Feast
...AZAFRAN dances tango well
SPANISH IN ARGENTINA.
Divinely harmonized
in the vinaigrette, onion, pepper
and tomato ... it's the joyful sound
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Categories:
pomme, allegory, allusion, creation, extended
Form: Free verse
Neuvième Fable
...Neuvième Fable
Neuvième Fable
Tragic Love
Internet Love
L'amour pour les brebis ont des yeux est la même que iff nous wed.
Les sentiments qu'elle me donne ne sont jamais remp...
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Categories:
pomme, devotion, faith, wedding, wife,
Form: Prose Poetry