Ripening Poems - Poems about Ripening

You were picked straight from the stem— a fruit fresh atop the bowl of offerings, something that must be fleece laid over blade. Not taken, but accepted. Not bitten, but cradled. And still, I would let you be the spiked fruit between my teeth— If you asked. If not to taste your sweet, then to feel your sting against my tongue. Pain can be a kind of...

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May peace follow you-said the half naked lady that breathed life into the night Return the calm you took from me, fair lady of the sky Every night I see you- Just as I saw you with my lover, And just as I saw you with my grief Become new or I will cease the dark- the dark permitting your presence My...

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Early Summer Hiku 23 r -i -p e -n -I -n –g cherries h a ...

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ripening corn swaying in the breeze hula hula...

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(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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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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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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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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