Short Licorice Poems

penny licorice 
kids speaking 
in black tongues



posted on July 9, 2020...

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rope of licorice, strawberry cash, its movie insights
hunger for vengeance, violence, malevolent bites.

10/1/2021...

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Black licorice stick tastes very good.
Each day for three weeks ate all she could.
     How dumb could she be?
     Very dumb was she —
with its toxicity like wormwood.

4/29/2021...

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Gumdrops and lollipops

Cotton candy and cakes

Creamy pudding and pies

Double malts and milk shakes

Taffy and licorice

And every ice cream too

Chocolate and caramel

Are half as sweet as you...

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Parade of ideas in word or phrase
Onyx thoughts like chocolate cake
Eager emerald ears listen to hear
Teal thrill words like happy new year
Riding licorice lips like kente kite
Yellow words finger painting life!...

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oh ye
jack-o-lantern moon
with
your
jolly bloodshot eyes soon
time for treat-or-treat
with
your
wicked Kraken smile
thus
we meet again
to witness
the
black licorice
dripping from
your 
orange pumpkin mouth...

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She cajoles my soul without the need for a comfirming hold.

Our conversations are intelligently, respectfully, and seductively full of eloquence.

Her soul fits my mind's definition of sexy.

Her lips recite the language of sweet licorice....

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(Senryus about crushes)

I'd never say to 
a guy "Oh, and by the way,
have a crush on you."

I'd never stalk my
crush on the Internet - that's
what our friends are for.

Never let a guy
treat you like licorice - you're
a red gummy bear....

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The highlight of the year for dear old Dad

     Was Halloween when treats were to be had

          His modus operandi

               Son you collect the candy

                    Snickers for me - licorice for you lad

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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A melt down occurred high outside
That ended a fabulous ride
Let's love licorice
But recall Icarus
Whose fall was preceded by pride


Author's note: Licorice is dark and an allegory for the bad things one needs in life.  We know that bad is stimulating, but too much of a good thing can have the opposite effect....

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Labeled as a healthful 
Legume, this root is sweet
Like sugar, but with a 
Long-lasting, stronger taste!
Lollipop licks of it
Linger on my tongue. I
Love its unique flavor!

April 15, 2017 for Kim Merryman's Pleiades L Contest 

I love love love Licorice!!!...

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There is no candy more lonely
Than a stick of licorice
It's a love hate affair where you do or don't care
That doesn't dare come with a makeup kiss

You can chew on that fact some think nasty at best
While some smile with blackened teeth
You either do or you don't, will or you won't
Think licorice is a scrumpdillyicious treat...

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black
with out sight or light
Black universal night
fertile grounds
silence is black
lack no noise
peace is black
blueberry berry pie
Black licorice
burnt chocolate
woolen comforter
a mother's womb
African black desert soil
Unite humanity


09/23/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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Any night
I serve up my fat
Drunken weary soul
In sweaty verbs
To the gods
Not real. 
I sit ever fatter
Licking prayers
And books of prayers 
Pretending 
I am a genius. 
I deal cards
In a game I've not learned
And coat candy 
In licorice kisses,
To dance, for naught,
And spark no more
And leap so short,
For eternity and a day....

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she never ever disappeared
e'en in those lonely years
when childhood trauma spewed up fears
inheritedly ghastly.

she wrote notes gifted, answered phone
no matter what was goin' on
the night my mind was nearly blown
she lent licorice care.

Iridescent to the max
bffl and that's a fact
(remember sharing stolen snacks?)
my sister, Rach, I love you....

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Morbid angel
With that crooked gothic grin
Smearing licorice lipstick
On the licentious lips of sin
Morbid angel
Whimpering salacious sighs
Snagging the souls of men
In your fishnet thighs
Morbid angel
In sable studded noir
Matching spiked collars
With your high heel scars
Morbid angel
Black lace over ashen skin 
You’re late for school again
Much to your parent’s chagrin...

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Sweet Dreams

Climb up on the peppermint mountain
Sip the flowing cinnamon tea
Ride confection’s fantasies of licorice
Savor lemon drops by a lemonade sea.

Pick a flower with caramel petals
Taste chocolate kisses from the breeze
Gather toffee bits like four leaf clovers
Catch fondant clouds then dream sweet dreams.

7-22-21
Contest: Bit Size Poem No. 14
Sponsor: line Gauthier...

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I had the notion to start a comotion;
Laugh in my bath, then lots of lotion.

I used to have a tiger sponge to wash
With and it was so soapy, I'd squash.

In a backyard; knives in hand, chicken.
Inside I spent my time reading Dickens.

Oliver Twist; licorice - black and red.
Picky eater, Ellen was always well-fed.
.
Ella, my great aunt gave me a gold ring.
Mother in my childhood, ever she'd sing....

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Fall into me like brown autumn leaf
Melting my red heart at your touch
Ebony eyes your demise gracefully
As gravity green pulls us my love

Fall into my kinetic kiss
Finding yourself like licorice
Sweet yet salty in bluesy bliss
For fall is a season such as this

Fall for my heavy hips and thighs
My chocolate lips with cranberry cries
That sweep in breeze as feet walk by
Seasonal lover this is our time....

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Box canyon candy land,scrawled upon its walls 
the first children's book-illustrated by the ancients~
Glazed by queen frosting and a gingerbread man
A jolly blind man with a gumdrop candle stick 
tried to read it but forever scorched its meaning~
Ghost Dancers echoing through minted halls
bawling"lord licorice is coming with bushels
of thunder sticks and buckets of black rain
quickly clamor out or forever be washed away!"...

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My scrumptious baby girl's
half-awake, half asleep.
And her toffee yawns are
sweet as caramel cream.

Her cotton candy cheeks
glow like pink marshmallows.
And dark chocolate curls
adorn her pretty head.

She sports blueberry eyes
and red licorice lips.
And her creamy face hosts 
a million-dollar smile.

A confectionery
treat, she is delicious.
And gives sugared kisses
that taste ever so sweet.


(Verse)


7/24/2015...

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I’m lavender; I’m apple-tartness green
or colored cream like fleece - a peaceful ewe.
Pastel, I’m hushed; when gold or red, I preen.
Like ice cream of a most peculiar hue,
I’m Baskin-Robbins licorice-flavor blue.
I’m fanciful as pink and rarely frown
reflecting sequins of my rainbow gown.


Written ages ago, I don't know when, but was first posted 8/31/11 under the 
title "Rainbowed"! 

Now used for Shadow Hamilton's Colours Poetry Contest...

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A fog moved in as we floated on a raft in the middle of a licorice ocean
and friends began dropping off into the sea swimming towards land I could not see and I wanted to go with them but I was afraid and then I tried but something held me back and plunged me from the raft onto the bottom of the ocean were I stayed for awhile  drowning  until a molasses fog wrapped itself round me and we floated slowly to the surface huddled together  mourning, waiting for morning to come....

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I wish I had a ha'penny,
I'd spend it on a whim.
I'd share it with my best friend,
Spend half of it on him.
I wish I had a ha'penny,
two farthings it would be.
One for my best friend,
the other one for me.
Into the shop we both would go,
With all our riches there to show.
We would buy a bag of sherbet,
and a licorice stick to dip.
Each taking turns to dip and lick,
Until it all was gone.
I wish I had a ha'penny,
But sadly I have none.

© Dave Timperley 10 April 2017....

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Before we left Stockholm
I purchased a stash
Of licorice tubes,
Using credit, not cash.

I followed their customs
Where money’s not used
And licorice rules.
(I, of course, was enthused.)

The treats that I bought
Have a lemon-filled base
Which black licorice spirals
Do snugly encase.

Every night since I’m home
I indulge in a bite
Which, aside from providing
A taste to delight…

Brings me back to my trip
In a sensory flash.
I’ll be sad when I finish
My licorice cache....

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