Short Gourd Poems

funny little gourds
slightly ugly and bumpy
— adopted by me

10/15/2018...

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evil-eyed Jack o’ lantern
	grimaces in the dark~
		helplessly perturbed pumpkin...

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pregnancy craving
ate too many pumpkin pies
my skin turned orange...

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Oh Change,the constant meal of the world,
How long will you cause us to drink from your Gourd?
c.2017...

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A happy pumpkin named Spinner
went to a Halloween dinner
	he met girly gourd
	whom he much adored
they each went home a big winner...

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Whenever you are feeling bored
Just grab a knife and carve a gourd
A creepy face
Lights up the place
So say your prayers and praise the Lord...

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The lonely housewife was bored
So, she hopped into her fiery ford
Drink and danced all night
Then got into a fight
She tussled and gourd until she was floored...

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my puppy and wolves
cat - tiger, rosewood n rose
gourd and large melon
I and master poet  Basho  
same genetic family
	
contest entry for Tanka poems
by Amy Green...

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Rat infested gourd
A pumpkin taken over
The insides emptied
There are holes throughout pumpkin
Which contains these nasty mice

Russell Sivey...

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I
mystery in seeds:
real to me, small, flat gourd seed
now, shoots at window smile

II
Flat white seed planted
a meter from window
three weeks: hi from window...

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The gourd guardian loved his post.
Out of all the jobs, it suited him the most.
He did not like to brag or even a tiny bit boast,
But he was the best guardian at this post....

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Large skeletal hand
Holds the great headless horseman’s
Head, a huge carved gourd
A pumpkin that glows within
For all of Halloween night

Russell Sivey...

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"Amidst These Purest Bud, In A Gourd Of Flesh, In 
The Deep Hades, There I Lay!"..."Upon This 
Ground, My Essence Drip,
Regrets, Bathed My Graveyard,
For Me, Do Not Weep!"...

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Pale zombie pumpkin
Absorbs the lives of *pepos--
Souls try burst out rind.


Pepo--any fleshy gourd fruit with a hard rind and many seeds, as the melon, squash, or 
cucumber....

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The hunchbacked man once asked God:
Why didn't you turn your face to me  Lord?
But God answered  the man:
When I looked down at your clan,
 I saw your back turn to me like a gourd....

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Sense of distinct judgment hides in the mud
not thinking is this brain confined in a gourd
an atheist gets numinous
bad sense so illuminous
embraces fully the lies, vague and the odd....

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Mr. Jiggle

There was a gourd named Mr. Jiggle

All he could do was wiggle

Every time he bounced

He gained an ounce

So every time he jiggled

I giggled


Mocksy
(5th grade)...

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Scatter-howl, the black cat’s gone bats.
Scalloped fur-spikes at peak heights.
Pumpkin candlelight holds extinguished fright.
The gourd-tomb tightly pinned.
Triple threat of fang’d mosquito bites.
Dare not men enter within Dracula's whim. 

10/2/2021...

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Snap my lonely stem and
Amputate my denied attachments and
Discover the life that drains
From an open wound.
Oozing to the earth it will 
Whet the desires of worms,
Each wondering why tears
Taste so much like pulp
From a pale and oddly shaped
Pumpkin....

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Once a haggard old chap I met
Who had to tell a sad sad tale
“Now I know how life to hate!”
This was the sum total of his tale.

“Once a youthful beam I had
Like yours so broad a good smile
And upon my hand the gourd I held
The wine on faces did put a smile!”...

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When thunder roars in sky
everyone finds place to hide
when lightning flashes its eyes
all believe its searching for him
Yet humans build weapons
that boom as thunder in hillside
and flash great lights and flames
as lightning in faraway skies
then who holds gourd of courage?...

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Irresistable kool 
(a Kwansaba for Eugene B. Redmond)
by ‘bro.zayid’

For him Miles is not god
Just irresistible kool
Yet he claims ancient ears
Sips Dunham’s golden legged dance
From Dumas’ Ra thick gourd
Ejaculating ink first
Our regal splendid swag…

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A white pumpkin? My first thought:

A large white fleshless bony hand
or two, joined at the wrists to creepily band
together to form a gourd;
reaching out of the cold ground
toward the stem, all around;
it doesn’t strike a festive chord

a cheerless harvest hybrid; my last thought…...

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My mother was a gourd
                                            My father was a sword
                                              Father kissed mother
                                                He had to shudder
                                        My gourd mother was floored...

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A little bit of passion in a bowl
A little bit of sharing in a plate
A little bit of mission in a cup
A little bit of fiction in a gourd
A little bit of motion with our hands 
No pollution, no tuition, no auction, no violation. 
                    Lets Double Dip
Caution! !!!! Someone has germs from last week!!!!...

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