By The Streetlamp
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Contest : Sense Of Taste
Sponsor : Nette Onclaud
Date : July 30, 2025
My dream desire is enticed
by your radiance shimmering
while you stand by the streetlamp,
shape for me passion aura...
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Categories:
sense of taste, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
By The Streetlamp
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Flavor of eve grows rancid
Neath this lamp where all was sweet
Minty eyes savoring lips
Buffet of emotions thrilled;
But candy coated with lies
You were not mine to relish
Appetizer...
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Categories:
sense of taste, hurt,
Form: Free verse
BY THE STREET LAMP
...BY THE STREETLAMP
Poem written for SENSE OF TASTE POETRY CONTEST, Nette Onclaud, Sponsor July 28, 2025
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she hunkers by the streetlam...
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Categories:
sense of taste, 12th grade, sad,
Form: Free verse
Sense Of Taste
...An explosion of flavour
Setting the taste buds alight
A tsunami of saliva
Dampening heat in the cave.
Like the sand beds of the sea,
Deeper elements spring forth
Revealing ingredients
Enrichi...
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Categories:
sense of taste, food,
Form: Free verse
SENSE OF TASTE
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By the street lamp we stand by,
our favorite restaurant.
Seeing people are eating,
hot dishes being devoured.
Food plays with my hungry tongue,
senses are jumping for joy.
Another hea...
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Categories:
sense of taste, food, fun, joy, life,
Form: Free verse
By The Streetlamp
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Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Title of Contest: Sense Of Taste
Date: 7/27/2025
By The Street Lamp
Sputters in the thick of night
setting the pathway ablaze!
Flavors of foretimes return
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Categories:
sense of taste, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse
Night Tastes Like
...Night Tastes Like
Night tastes like:
Hot, black coffee
freshly perked.
Dark pumpernickel bread
fresh out of the oven.
Sweet black licorice
stringy kind of course.
A thick slice of
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Categories:
sense of taste, night,
Form: Free verse
Abstractive
...It's not figuratively thinking but abstractive!
Avoiding over abstract.
The road is clear.
The eyes within their limits
See the appearances of things
& their expressions, figures.
An eye is a...
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Categories:
sense of taste, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Taste
..."Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good."
Psalm 34:8
Last I saw and heard of him, he was
recovering well from a bout with cancer.
But it left him without a sense of TASTE.
It's hard to imagin...
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Categories:
sense of taste, senses,
Form: Free verse
Count Your Blessings
...When everything about me still thrives,
And everything is a sight for sore eyes,
I'm thankful for my sense of SIGHT.
When noise abounds with the hearing of sounds,
because my eardrums are e...
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Categories:
sense of taste, god, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Widow Black Bull
...The only problem I find with you
as other people apart from not only
just me
Which has been brought up and mentioned
once or twice before
Is that you seldom seem to able to know
where to d...
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Categories:
sense of taste, emotions,
Form: Free verse
My World of Darkness
...Away with your joy, I don't want such a commodity.
For all I have lived, I've only known the dark,
The gloomy, bitter and the bad.
They all say they want to be happy,
They explain ecstasy, like...
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Categories:
sense of taste, deep, emotions, faith, happiness,
Form: I do not know?
Fast Food Fool
...Hot peppers and spicy horseradish
a gut-punch to the solar plexus
Snake venom with moldy cheese
not tonight, if you please...
Tadpole skins and locust larvae
strains my stomach of i...
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Categories:
sense of taste, food, health, hyperbole,
Form: Light Verse
Green Bikes, Red Bites
...What's cooler and juicier
Than a long-striped rime of green,
Whose internals are fortified with
An explosion of mesmerizing desire?
Or a total circle of green without stripes,
Protectively enc...
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Categories:
sense of taste, food, fruit,
Form: Verse
Crystal Clear
...I never got to meet her, but she left me with inspiration.
Perhaps I will never meet her, but I was impressed.
Inspired enough to give her a face, a poetic place.
Impressed, because I felt the pre...
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Categories:
sense of taste, inspiration,
Form: Verse
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