Short Pear Shaped Poems

“You're a woman who's shaped like a pear!”
Said a rival with an insolent stare.
     “It depends,” said a friend
     who was keen to defend,
“Just how you appreciate a pear!”...

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This darn belly fat came out of nowhere
I swear that yesterday it wasn't there
I'm so freaking mad
Need a doughnut bad
Can't stand that I look like a fricken pear...




Show Me The Funny contest......

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lumpy
pear-shaped
bright green
quince

fibrous
sour
needs honey or sugar
jelly is great

contains antioxidants
helps manage pregnancy nausea
loving the sourness
thank you orchard
for putting quince into my path...

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She queued for tickets
at the ticket booth
and paid in euros...
Her tickets were pear-shaped
for a film called "Pear".

She came pear-shaped to the matinée.

You knew I would say that,
or maybe the booth man told you
as she walked away...

Her heels clicked on the crazy path
and the man looked as long as dared.





9/13/2015...

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Blown Fuse

I won’t be parading to honour the dead.

Something’s gone pear-shaped inside my head.

All the guilt and confusion that have built through the years

Have blown out the fuse in the space ’tween my ears.

I don’t know the reason, can’t explain why it’s so.

All the rest are parading, but me? I can’t go....

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Diamonds 
are her best friend
said the girl
so many facets
for to sparkle
twinkle 
glimmer
and unfurl
Diamonds 
can be square shaped
pear shaped
even round shaped
all Diamonds 
are this girl's best friend

Written 4th May 2019

Contest: Tribute to a Precious or Semi- Precious Gem
Sponsor: Line Gauthier

Contest A STRAND (1065)
Sponsor Brian Strand
FIRST PLACE...

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I have a tap that drips

Drop after languid drop, they slowly form, pear-shaped pearls

Reflecting light, rainbows, a fluid diamond

Then gravity, they fall, only to explode to a myriad of ripples

Liquid slivers that pour, jump and settle

Breaking the surface, spreading, traveling

They reach an edge, come softly back

Momentum lost

Until they vanish beneath the returned calm surface



1997...

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Summer Hat

Rose stitched onto a summer hat
Braided with love 
Hung upon a wall
Overhead grandma’s twin sized bed
Alongside her church dress
Burnt orange 
Long sleeved
Hemmed below the knee 
Clear pear shaped crystals along  its neckline

Good folk come around bedtime 
Conversing over old pastimes 
Words get through her head when she sleeps 
A song through the lips
A peck on the cheek



Marckincia Jean
Free verse
09/11/19...

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Camiguin is a pear-shaped island
Lies northern tip of Mindanao
Second smallest island in the Philippines
Smallest province in Northern Mindanao.

Camiguin is rich of natural attractions
Waterfalls, hot and cold springs 
Evergreen forest fringed with sandy beach
Truly a place to convene with nature.


Oh how I love Camiguin
A place of safety or refuge
It is where my parents met and made 
Eight children. True love that 'till now they have displayed.




04-16-2014...

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