Psycho Romance
...You're like a ray of sunshine that creases my skin,
A whisper of sweet nothings, pulling me in.
My heart beats a rhythm, an echo, a call,
Bang! Bang! on the chamber walls.
A symphony of longing, ...
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Categories:
ripest, addiction, feelings, for her,
Form: Free verse
fossils
...In a lattice-lit dorm room sits a writer.
A discarded chemistry book lies beside her.
because ideas are hitting off her, like a collider.
Why does writing make her feel alive-er?
Cause it helps...
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Categories:
ripest, humor, poetry, student, writing,
Form: Rhyme
In the Shade of Her Mango Tree
...Sally was playing in her backyard…chasing butterflies and bees
when she decided to rest a while in the shade of her mango tree.
“Thank you for the shade.” She said. “It’s nice to get out of the h...
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Categories:
ripest, age,
Form: Rhyme
Banana Split Sundae
...Vanilla, milk, and sugar are so delicious together,
But I add slices of the ripest banana to be sure
This is truly a dessert better than any other....
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Categories:
ripest, food,
Form: Sijo
Love Is Futile, Love Is Everything
...I pull...tear my heartstrings
Rip and maul like a wild beast
Why, oh why do I do this
Why does love never stay
I treat love so divine
I give the elusive goddess the sweetest creams
The ripest ...
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Categories:
ripest, self,
Form: Free verse
Strawberry Delight
...A gent in a tailored suit, sat by me and said,
I saw the ripest strawberries, fruit of ruby red
poured over a dish of vanilla ice cream
I pinched myself, could this be a dream?
He sho...
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Categories:
ripest, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Red
...attention seeking
valentine roses
scarlet cone flower
embarrassed faces
Santa Claus suit
strawberry wine
fire engine
sweet tomato
ripest melon
blood and guts
confidence
self esteem
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Categories:
ripest, art,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Aged Like Wine
...Years go by like a purple blur of time,
As when the ripest grapes are turned,
Into the most luscious and aged wine!
Then memory itself often comes calling,
In sweltering sunshine and in the rain,...
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Categories:
ripest, age, joy, memory, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Last Good Days of Innocence
...I skip,
like stones skimming on a lake-
The song that awakens
the ripest memories;
how your eyes
widen
whilst your thumbs
outline me.
The way your face falls,
huddled
between my arm...
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Categories:
ripest, boyfriend, desire, innocence, lost
Form: Free verse
Paradise
...Eden , a mindful thought to pacify one’s contemplation of
the perfect life with all of the ribbons and bows to achieve the feeling
of blissfulness.
With that in mind one’s perception of the othe...
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Categories:
ripest, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Anyone Game- Question Mark
...Welcome to this "risk"-taking game of "life."
Choose a blue companion peg, or snag a pink wife,
or ride "solitaire" through this "scrabble"d "mousetrap,"
or add so many kids that they stack on you...
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Categories:
ripest, fun, funny, games, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Within Golden Walls, Love's Gardens Await
...(I.)
Within Golden Walls, Love's Gardens Await
Ripe are swelled grapes upon glowing vine
my darling on love's bounty we shall dine
in our paradise rests more than a dream
there flows truest jo...
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Categories:
ripest, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Morountodun
...Morountodun,
this is the place you'll find me
like the prey of a shrike
choked through by your thorny words
When the chase after Omo Ogun with your heart
Failed to be anything worthy to steal th...
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Categories:
ripest, husband, travel, true love,
Form: Free 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 ...
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Categories:
ripest, fruit, humor, wine,
Form: Verse
The Soul Solitude Kisses
...Mother's love grew into a sour myth.
I spewed out her milk
into the stygian sea
that brought the merchants
whose merchandise were deep, immortal musings
on a new-found love.
Solitude was ther...
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Categories:
ripest, love,
Form: Free verse
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