Short Grapefruit Poems

Grapefruit moon 
 Spilling down on me....

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Mango horizons,
Grapefruit sun sinks in the sea:
Apricot sunset....

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A jar of grapefruit is always
Greater than any loot, in all ways....

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trolley car dining
grapefruit sized saucy meatballs
cheesecake for dessert...

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Grapefruit floats in milk
But milk curdles in grapefruit
Nouns are funny things...

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Peeling the Sun
squeezing the seeds
planting sunflowers
so you can taste the
sunshine
Ava Lu....

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red grapefruit juice
refreshingly pink and cool
brings a summer day to me in winter
her sweetness loving my taste buds each time...

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Gone
grapefruit
yesterday
juiced to the max
split.

Wind
blows seeds
joyous hush
surprisingly
breath.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nancy Jones
TURN ON THE LANTERNE...

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Grapefruit
Ruby red
Juicy and tart
Immunity boosting
Great fruit...

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Jugs of an  INORDINATE  size
I can't help but lOOk at them
Giggles escape from my lips
Grapefruit like in shape
Lively like bounce
In my face
Nifty 
Gift...

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hail the size of small grapefruit
summer yard covered like snow
vanished like the nesting birds
frightening weather  

Written August 7, 2022
[7-7-7-5]...

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Chasing down chocolate bacon sandwiches;
Accompany yellow and green quash;
Grapefruit flavored pinto beans taco flav' mustaches;
Cauliflower lips succulent nose bash;
Smells abundant of burnt ash sugatash 
...

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Drinking grapefruit juice is total bliss.
It won’t get any better than this.
I call this juice liquid happiness.
Good for a brother or sis.
 
inspired by a comment to one of my other poems
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Those apples you call cheeks are as fresh as a currant, grapefruit! 
Wanna eat them my luv! For they're chubby and sweet!


The crease on your neck is a line on blue-sky.
It squints for a smooch which my lips can't deny....

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Preseason Baseball
two-thousand-sixteen
is now underway
oh what fun it is
watching baseball played

the grapefruit league
the cactus league
in Florida
Arizona

who'll make team
and who won't
get in shape

April
for real

play...

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Five pounds heavier today than the week before.
Does that make sense?  Could I ask for more?
The same doctor’s scale both of the times? 
Am I hiding grapefruit?  Have I hidden limes?
Five pounds heavier from Tuesday since last Friday?
I am feeling a bit slovenly.  Not tidy....

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O-Outward she seemed fine and healthy
R-Really it was a dagger in the heart to hear!
P-Penetrated through the ovaries was a cancer cyst.
H-Happened that it was the size of a grapefruit before we knew
A-And it had metastasized so that numbered her days.
N-Now both of my parents have passed on, and I at the age of 43 am orphaned....

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flamingos and sunsets
cherries and maple leaves
almond blossoms in sunshine
lipstick of high fashion
plummy plum tree blossoms
tulips and juicy watermelon
a flashy sports car at dawn
twilight pearls and rubies
bleeding hearts among roses
pomegranate and grapefruit
dragon fruit and rhubarb
apples and creamy frosting
butterflies and raspberries...

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The hard rumor followed me out the door
Down the hill and past the grapefruit store
I could not believe it, was it forevermore?
The rumor said mad hatter had left for summer shore.

What about his cat? Asked one who loved gore.
Is it okay? Did a raven eat it up past its core?
The cat is fine, said my uncle Livermore.
The rumor has no merit, it is insane folklore....

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He lands onto the highest perch,
"Top of the world, Ma,  Top
of the world!"  Who knows where
our Jimmy went if not there. 
Before he was an aerialist, 

he folded onscreen on his way to
the chair so that the boys who
followed  him would have no
heir.  Now, that's a hero, 
grapefruit or no grapefruit.



 

                 ***

(Bird watching on my porch)...

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Grapefruits are my favorite fruit
The taste is sweet and quite acute
Worthy of praise, grapefruits are
The most delectable by far

No other fruit can quite compare
Not apple, coconut, or pear
I love my grapefruit, every night
We make sweet love, uncontrite

All the haters can go to hell
Grapefruit and I get along swell
If you're a bigot, **** yourself
I'm grapefruit-sexual, and proud of myself...

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I check my little lemon tree every day with delight,
The new baby lemons are just growing out of sight.
The lemon tree lives on my patio and loves the sun,
And picking those giant lemons is such fun!

The last one picked was like a grapefruit, huge in size,
And the wonderful taste it did not compromise.
The luscious lemon went on facebook for my friends eyes,
Then it had a date with a pie, and met its demise....

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On the rim of the glass, there is salt all around.
This makes the drink different from a “greyhound”.
Take either gin or vodka mixed with grapefruit juice.
These ingredients can be put to good use.
It was named for any sailor experienced with the sea.
The drink maintains great popularity.
Has anybody replaced the gin or vodka with tequila?
In that way, we could call this drink a “grapefruit margarita”.
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I am thirsty but cannot make a decision.
We have orange juice
prune juice
cranberry juice
apple juice
tomato juice
red grapefruit juice
We are out of cranberry juice, my husband reports.
Well, this helps a little.
We have chocolate milk, white milk, strawberry milk.
I think I’ll have coffee, I tell him.
I hear him groan.
My coffee is made with several extra steps.
You have to add a packet of cocoa, chocolate milk and two sugars....

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You Can Never Dance A Tango With A Mango


     You can never dance a Tango With a Mango

     And the Damson is a drama in the Jive.

     And the Grapefruit you can bet

     Has not done the Rhumba yet

     And that a Kumquat does the Foxtrot

     Is entirely false.

     The Samba when in season can be entirely pleasin’

     But the Mango cannot Tango or dance the Waltz.


    10/19/17

    For 'Daft' contest by Kevin Shaw...

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