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Relishes Poems - Poems about Relishes

I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025

...I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.

How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit...
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Categories: relishes, cool, environment, humorous, june,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Mother - Both Sides Now

...
mother  child
nestled  encircled
sings a lullaby  shouts rebuke
forever giving  endless forgiving
cuddles with soft hands  scolds with look of eyes
a candle that gently ...
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Categories: relishes, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Magical Journey

...*“Named after Pieter Both, who was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Pieter Both is one of the most beautiful mountain peaks in Mauritius.” Mauritiusnow.com>blog>things-to-do>piete...
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Categories: relishes, appreciation, journey, magic, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Dawning

...No greater gift do I have than me.
To give all that I be, weakness and steel,
Handed unafraid, exuberantly tossed,
Into union where none became one.
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Innocence dares not question
The mating, ...
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Categories: relishes, gospel, word play,
Form: Free verse

The waves and her

...The waves&her

Along the waves she ambles 
Prevailing the ocean elysian 
The longing feel of a hiraeth 
Sensual, her cheeks aflush; An inamorata. 
She gently rubs her eyes and sees- 
the bewit...
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Categories: relishes, 12th grade, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberStalingrad I

...As gods go forth to set the world a fire
‘tis ego that consumes the despot mind.
While domination seeks its epic spire,
the raging wars from east to west align.
‘Tis mere despite that veils a wai...
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Categories: relishes, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberSEPTEMBER FALLS

...Sun’s rays have weakened lately. Cool winds blow,
Effectively allaying summer heat.
Perhaps fall lovers should be patient, though.
There’ll be more hot days. Summer’s n...
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Categories: relishes, autumn, september, summer,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberBritish Angels

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                    THREE  BRITISH ANGELS



Three daughters of Britain, in a dance class,
their lives were viciously taken!
But, sadly, for many of us, you are, in our silence,
inhuman...
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Categories: relishes, children, dance, death, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Dusk hoover ring dawn ting task of badinage

...Dusk hoover ring dawn ting task of badinage...

This hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp posse Hubble wordsmith,
(i.e. the babbling dad) coon sitters hyperbole
insync as a...
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Categories: relishes, 12th grade, addiction, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Tabby Cat

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My tabby cat with spectacles on nose,
Sits on a chair in imperial pose.
She holds an open book in one hand,
And a mug of coffee of a fresh brand.

Though she controls only the mo...
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Categories: relishes, animal, appreciation, sleep,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHumility

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Humbleness
(Free Verse)

Humble is a man who prefers 
To take fresh air in his garden
Than waste his time in a pub,
To be dressed in simple clothing
Than in expensive high class dresses
Tha...
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Categories: relishes, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse

FROM THE HUSBAND'S EYE

...FROM THE HUSBAND'S EYE

In the kitchen, a dance of flavors play,
When your "food" cooks up a surprise today.
Living the good life, in every bite found, 
Deciding the order, to let joy abound.4
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Categories: relishes, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBait

...“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare” 
William Blake

With a fragile earth warm, I lure my Labeo rohita.
Minute minnows manage many magical Mackerels.
Shrimps attract snapper, aro...
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Categories: relishes, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberCraving otherworldly Respite

...Crystal eyes gleam
at the prospect of
scintillating sapphire blush
gliding films of
wonder dilate bliss
driven lilac haze
spasmodic orbital earth
spinning obtuse lumen
tangents of night mist
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Categories: relishes, appreciation, beauty, birth, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnderneath A Spell

...A dark blue midnight  awning has its portrait,
etched by a a starlit silver lustrous galaxy,
silhouette of black lace frilled clouds,
in somber quietude  adrift  beneath a vibrant pearl,
amber mo...
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Categories: relishes, beautiful, city, color, dream,
Form: Imagism

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