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Sarsaparilla Poems - Poems about Sarsaparilla

Hallway

...Hallway

Things the upstairs hallway desperately needs to 
make her feel like a 
hallway include:
jugs of 
water with a 
hint of 
lemon and 
sarsaparilla (yuk!), heads of 
asparagus, afros,...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWho's a Saint

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I read a poem about
      a mother, a saintly mother,
      who, with knotted and veined
      hands, crocheted blankets 
and booties and mittens
for grandchildren, 
      who made lemonade
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Categories: sarsaparilla, appreciation, care, family, introspection,
Form: Free verse



There Was Trouble Brewin' In Soup Creek

...As morning glowed pale light over the town of Soup Creek,
Jenna woke with a start when she heard a floorboard squeak.
She raised her gun and took aim at a shadow near the door,
"Hold it right ther...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, poets,
Form: Narrative

Sprilla - Tanka 99

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                                              Rooted for good health
                                  Centuries of healing man
                             Better skin and joints
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Categories: sarsaparilla, appreciation, blessing, drink, health,
Form: Tanka

Drinking Water

...Two glasses of water
wait to be touched by hand and lip.

The water itself remembers the taste
of whiskey, sarsaparilla, Fixodent;
the salty funk
of being swallowed down the throat
of one expe...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFound In a Candy Store

...some sarsaparilla please
chilled Death Valley soda pop
fizz with a vintage label

9/19/2021...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, drink,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberJust Vanilla

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There are flavors from strawberry cheesecake to sarsaparilla.
Thirty-one different kinds of ice cream, and you want vanilla?
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Categories: sarsaparilla, food,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberI Wished I Were a Cowboy

...I wished I were a cowboy riding a handsome palomino,
But, I was just a little kid, my sis watching Valentino.
I wished I were a cowboy rounding up the longhorns,
But, I was just a little kid still...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSister Sarah Sucks

...Sidney spots spiteful sister Sarah secretly sucking
sticky strawberry swirls, and sarsaparilla spirals 

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12/30/20...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, candy, children,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberDefine A Friend

...A friend instinctively knows how to bend,
and not break, when anger is in control.
A Champagne and sarsaparilla blend;
that can quench the thirst of both heart and soul.

A friend is tet...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, best friend, emotions, feelings,
Form: Sonnet

With Gentlemen Ease

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In the unforgiving August heat
of a hot Alabama noonday
They sit in secluded shade,
resting in high-back, woven bamboo chairs
on a mahogany carved veranda
Their bodies face outward to t...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, black african american, pain,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Horn Hairy Gorrila Limerick

...Horn Hairy Gorilla Limerick

We were drinking some sarsaparilla
Ran into Hun that they named Attila
Pretended he was a gorgeous man
From each country him they did ban
He had turned into a harry...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberPie Eyed Spittoon

...Out of the west, amide a beautiful sunrise… came a pie eyed son of a gun.
Looking for Armadilly Billy the Sling Shot Kidster… water gun… in hand.
He rode a very slow plug, an inchworm called ‘Giddy...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberAttic Journey

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Mr. William Finch had a lot to remember.
What was he doing in the attic in late November?
Wondering about his antics was his wife Cora.
William was covered with the scent of sarsaparilla.
He...
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Categories: sarsaparilla, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Dear Miss Monkey Manners Iii

...Dear Miss Monkey Manners, I am writing to you out of desperation,
It seems that I may have a problem with excessive perspiration.
As a lowland gorilla I live in regions of extreme heat and humidity,
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Categories: sarsaparilla, funny, old, old, silver,
Form: Light Verse

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