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Ripening Poems - Poems about Ripening


Premium Member Ripening Corn
ripening corn swaying in the breeze hula hula...

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Categories: ripening, dance, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Ripening of Love
(Oregon Coast, Oct. 2015) The Ripening of Love (for Carol) The balance of power Neither winning or losing, up or down Even, harmoniously at ease, Contented with whatever Life brings. (1/31/24) ...

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Categories: ripening, love, marriage, relationship, retirement,
Form: Free verse



Ripening
Why does come the ripe age? To count the evils of it one by one upon your note pad or diary page when you are alone? To speak ill of your younger ones to your equals/ to find their mean-less extravagance/ to be of no use to them in their hours of stress/ to make them realise that you are nothing but a kind of...

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Categories: ripening, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Miasma Ripening
Miasma Ripening by Odin Roark The chaff of greed Feeds the consumer-compost, While urban disquietude Marches in lockstep. Decomposition rages… Choked roads of sunbaked gridlock, Spider web into house upon house, Creating cubic-waste upon cubic-waste, Richer, Poorer, Fancier, Shittier. Drive by Reality… Poor eye the rich, Rich eye endless wants, Avarice-bloated ticks of debt Cruise side...

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Categories: ripening, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
A Beauty, Ripening
My love, my love, I’d love to tell Was just as fair as one may be Her lovely eyes like waves that swell Athwart the pearl-laden sea Her lips were sweet and just as lush As red roses, fresh, one to kiss Her voice in song is like...

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Categories: ripening,
Form: Lyric




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