Clementine through the Clouds
...clementine through the clouds
a gentle shower of shine
not blinding, but binding
droplets of a restraining eye
so like a passing surname
a sign inhabits the Summer day
hour upon hour of a...
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Categories:
sherbert, imagery,
Form: Free verse
If Adam Had Not Met Eve Hitler Should Have Met Freuid
...If only Eve hadn’t met Adam
And angry Hitler had met Freuid
If Stanley never met Ollie
And David Gilmore had never been in Pink Floyd
Shakespeare had run out of ink and quill for a pen
Mother Hu...
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Categories:
sherbert, conflict, crazy, fun, humorous,
Form: Free verse
An Alliterative Summer
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An Alliterative Summer
8/15/2023
summer smiled and stayed
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Categories:
sherbert, imagery, summer, sweet,
Form: Haiku
Sherbert Day - Tribute To Evelyn Buehler
...Is it a sherbert day?
Any day is
for our particolored poet.
She waltzes in a mobile gown -
peaches and plums,
lemons and cotton candy pinks.
The rivet of cold sherbert
or lemonade stirred,
pa...
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Categories:
sherbert, color, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Memories
...Nose pressed flat upto the glass,
Pockets tinkling full of brass;
Oblong jars,row on row
Candy -filled,to over flow.
Mintoes,chews and Pontefract cakes,
Limes and milk chocolate flakes;
Jelly...
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Categories:
sherbert, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Strawberry Sherbert
...I had strawberry sherbert dreams
until they got sidestepped by
melancholy chocolate cake.
My dreams shattered like crumpled
pie toppings.
Now I have no desire for ...
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Categories:
sherbert, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
All Alone
...All Alone,
By
Joseph Sherbert
I'm all Alone here in the morning,
I'm all Alone through out the day.
I'm all Alone deep in the dead of the night,
I hate this price...
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Categories:
sherbert, angst, anxiety, change, character,
Form: Free verse
For All The Sweet Lovers
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Flying Saucers, Flake, Bar Six
Country Style, Gobstoppers, Twix
Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Sweet Tobacco, Lucky Bags
Toffee Crisp and Dairy Crunch
Grand Seville and Milky Lunch
Beta B...
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Categories:
sherbert, appreciation, candy, heart, love,
Form: List
Seasons Sonnet
...THIS Italian Sonnet does NOT have a regular meter,
has 10 syllables and a rhyming pattern of
abbaabba, cdecde
SEASONS SONNET
One year old today, pink frosted candle.
Year la...
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Categories:
sherbert, age, seasons,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Vitamin L
...Boosted immunity is an aim for us all
Like most, I have a rattling compartment
Where selection of supplements offer
Ongoing trip, ship of health embarked
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Categories:
sherbert, 3rd grade, child, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Open Dictionary
...at dawn i hug an armful of words - open dictionary.
i toss them in the air like confetti confectionary.
like sherbert they’re my own flavor’d dialect creamery.
i t a l i c s and ...
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Categories:
sherbert, imagery, words,
Form: Verse
Peach Sherbert Garden
...Blush peach gerbera daisies
Echinacea marmalade
Angel’s trumpet cassie’s curls
Chantilly peach snapdragon
Christa coral bells
Daylily tangerine
Apricot whirl narcissus
A la mode dahlia
Zinnia...
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Categories:
sherbert, appreciation, beautiful, color, flower,
Form: Free verse
Road To Lovejoy - Piano For the Self Taught - Part 2
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"Road to Lovejoy - Piano for the Self Taught" (Part 2)
His name was
Flight Left-Tennant V.C.Burton,
or "Victor Charlie Bravo", when he
got pulled over by the cops, expla...
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Categories:
sherbert, dad, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Poppies: Collaboration With Mystic Rose
...Hillsides shimmer in summer's golden fire
as marmalade sun dawns on poppied slopes.
I run with Monarch butterflies higher
barefoot in honey with tangerine hopes.
I hear the butter chirp of a wa...
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Categories:
sherbert, butterfly, flower, inspirational, lost
Form: Quatrain
June
...June is knocking
at the door
dressed in fragrant
summer gold
cherry blossoms
cuckoo songs
bathing suits
volleyballs
riding waves
spitting salt
sherbert
sky
cooling
ball
joy of lov...
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Categories:
sherbert, june,
Form: Free verse
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