Short Pistachio Poems

Pistachio Distress

Shell but
No nut...

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Wild flowers waves rye grass
saturated cow pasture;
primed with rain showers,
pistachio and moss green
lively, dancing, verdant dream....

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So often the nut meats we find
Experience life as a grind
So let's not spread
Their butter instead
Eat them whole on this day enshrined...

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Cold pistachio ice cream
Nutty flavored dream
Cherry essence floods each bite.
Green frozen delight
Smoothly textured chill
Summertime –
Thrill!...

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Sad
Does not
Begin to
Express my thoughts
Words fail to explain the emotion felt

The abject disappointment when the last 
Pistachio
Is but an 
Empty
Shell...

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Kermit the Frog went to get a loan for a van
And Jim Henson went along to give him a hand
But when filling out race
Kermit had both a trace	
Of pistachio and cotton American...

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pudding
lemon meringue
flavor-able, moist and sweet
mom put whipped cream on her pudding
butterscotch used to be my favorite
coconut cream or chocolate
marvelous terrific
pistachio
pudding...

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a pair of 
rainbow
Lorikeet birds
Spin free 
as a Ferris wheel
Upon 
the highest branch
In the garden of 
a thousand eyes  
from 
their favorite olive green
Pistachio tree
Sun-bake hands 
Shall 
pray for thee
Upon 
the highest branch...

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Spoiled soy burgers
  and marshmallow spam
Find all the worms
  in the uncured ham

Mustard stew a la mode
  pistachio-flavored tongue of toad
Dandelion roots in stuffing of turkey
  makes digestion extra-perky

Fancy diets? - Gain weight and kvetch
  Eat this stuff! Shed pounds ~ just retch...

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Kelly, olive, hunter, pea – 
Any green will do ya.
On St. Paddy’s Day, in green
Is how the world should view ya.

Forest, avocado, teal – 
So many shades for choosin’.
Mint, pistachio, chartreuse – 
Such greenness for effusin’.

Army, jungle, lime and pine – 
Whichever one is pleasin’.
Deck yourself in green today – 
The world will know the reason!


for Francine Roberts' contest...

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All the clouds where pistachio
The ink and the pen where not strong enough
The young lover brought himself to the window
He threw pebbles that tickled the weak glass
He did not know which weather was going to come out
His sweet and gentle sunny day
Or the thunderstorm of May
He braved himself and waited like a fox at night
Whether to varnish or stand like the oak in the rain...

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A plethora of ice cream flavors,
vanilla, strawberries, bubble gum,
pistachio, butter toffee, and butter rum.
Dismay not, my tongue like them all,
In a crystal dish, deemed that I would,
Smooth and yummy,
I want that in my tummy,
This afternoon I can have it.
but, only if I study.

Written: June 19, 2022

Ice Cream Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward...

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Shamrock twins argued about this and that
They argued as to if a dog was a hog
Or a cat was a bat

On Halloween they were disagreeable to a masterful degree
They put spells on each other’s jack-o-lanterns
They put spiders in each other’s tea

Their favorite holiday was St. Patrick’s Day
with green mint shakes and pistachio cakes
They argued about this and that
But never about the sanctity of St. Pat...

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The old man walks up the olive hill,
Iron bedrock washes out to sea,
A cleft splits the iron hill,
The valley blooms a pistachio tree,
The old man breaks the killing stick,
The point is ruddy and its heart is green.

Breaker of branches rattle my senses,
Tender of blossoms wreck my defenses,
Sender of seeds blow,
Shaker of leaves blow,
Bender of boughs blow, blow, blow,
Taker of trees blow through me....

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There is a party for three with a whoop and a whee
We sit high above most in a bogey woogie banyon tree
The tea is orange plus lemon with a shot of pistachio
They devour it eagerly, three ladybugs with dots that glow

Best tea I have ever drank says one!
I agree says third cousin on his wife’s side, Mr. Fun.
Is this Des Moines tea? Asks the third lady bug man.
Don’t know but it is tasty straight out of the can....

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Hushed morning.....
A winter scene from my bedroom window
of soft pearled fields sloping to the sea
Rose hips, blood red with white frosting
Naked branches as snow falls from bough to bough
Pale melon sun shines, as a thaw struggles in

A steel grey sky mirrors a stilled ocean
Shadows of Spruce elongate the milk carpet
Pistachio ivy clings to the tree trunks 
freezing fog lingers, the feeble sun waning
as a blackbird hops, mirabelle beak pecking...

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They have at least thirty-one flavors all the time. 
Available are pistachio, rum raisin, and key lime. 
Have you ever tried their strawberry or blueberry cheesecake? 
In any single trip, how many flavors can you take? 
Other than ice cream, they also have sangria or daiquiri ice. 
Everything they have is cool, tasty, and nice. 
This place offers variety in a plethora. 
I can't believe that all you want is vanilla!

inspired by another member's poem
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