Spoonful Poems | Examples

Premium Member Just a spoonful

ambidextrose: able to eat sweets equally well with either hand
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Garlic by the Spoonful

Garlic by the spoonful
each and everyday.
Garlic by the spoonful
by you the others won't play.
Garlic by the spoonful
is heart healthy indeed.
Garlic by the spoonful
is exactly what I need.


Premium Member A Spoonful of Nothing

On Thanksgiving I ate hardly anything 
Some sliced turkey and a spoonful of nothing 
My appetite was killed 
When my dear wife had spilled 
All the gravy for the turkey and stuffing
Form: Limerick

A Spoonful of Sugar

"A Spoonful of Sugar"


Upon waking
the green hangover
hangs low waiting 
for the weeding

the alarm sounds
like thunder 
the cats on the prowl
they’re hungry

the words 
spill out of my mouth
like a spoonful of sugar
stirred into a deep cup 

of strong black coffee

my cup runneth over
anything for a new world
me thinks the pen 
not a play thing 

swords are dealt 
like cards through the keys
the mind reeling in the 
fishes like words

flapping in dewdrops
like swimming in tears
the stories like leaves 
miracles ever falling 

like loaves multiplying
for the toasting
the story begins 
like a bullet being loaded

into a chamber 
the trigger pulled
the capsule swallowed
dispatches the chapters

into 
another world
a new world
a new story 

sentences for weeding
wild gardens nourished
all the murderous little darlings
seeded,

unfurling
unfolding

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Spoonful of Sugar

even ugly poetry can seem tasteful ~ when penned elegantly
Form: Monoku


Premium Member One More Spoonful

on a hot summer afternoon,
dreaming silently, wistfully, achingly…

a frosty dish, glistening…
chilled by the freezer cold
ice cream, blended with heart shaped
scarlet strawberries, sweet
silhouettes of promises…

scrumptiousness sliding over my tongue
making me sigh, breathless
as the whisper of soft white clouds
gliding through a smiling azure sky…

giggling, laughing, delighting
in the luscious beads of satisfaction
bleeding joy from my dish,
awakening my heart…
dancing with joy, like a wish…
for one more spoonful!





Ice Cream Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Julia Ward
June 20, 2022

Premium Member A Spoonful of Snow

Dash of snow flutters to the ground
And lands O  gently all around;
White as velvet quilt of feather
To drift  upon Yule's iced heather:
Bare now after Queen Winter's hand
Covering lanes from bright hues grand;
Which transforms the pines with finesse
And silver stars of gracefulness.

Yet night gleams through crystals  so bold
Adorning roofs.... bright joys enfold;
O pearled flakes that warm and spill
Through tuneful romps of love's goodwill...

How  children hail the dance of snow
On an EVE blessing life, aglow!


Best Rhyming Poem --Oct-Dec 2017
For John Hamilton's Contest    1/2/2018
Originally Written :12/9/2017   Rhyme Form- Couplet
Form: Rhyme

A Spoonful of Snow

a spoonful of snow
chills a Christmas brandy toast
new year another
Form: Haiku

A Spoonful of Snow

We scratched and scrapped and piled it together,
thin as cobwebs, like molted bird feathers,
spread out on the frozen lawn,
a gossamer frosting in early dawn,
a meager, stingy December snow,
hardly enough to foster a glow
from the Christmas lights candycane twirled
about the evergreen swags softly whirled.

A new sled from Santa's gift giving
was mine to enhance childhood living!
Why he did not provide the blizzard--
(He could have called on the North Pole snow wizard!)
we just did not know,
but to work we would go
and make a snow ramp out in the yard
about as thick as a worn playing card.

The rest of the story is not hard to guess;
my dad's in the doghouse, my mom in distress.
That snow ramp was built quite poorly it seems,
engineered from child wishes and misguided dad dreams,
and though for a moment, I thought I would fly,
at least, sitting here, I still have an eye.

Copyright, December 5, 2017
Christmas Rhymes Contest
Kim Rodrigues, Sponsor
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member 'a Spoonful of Snow'

Oh, Christmas Day is creeping up on us,
my decorations sure do look lovely;
on my street the blinking lights are breathless,
   I sure do love Christmas;
but, I need some white stuff called snow, badly!

All the leaves have fallen to their demise,
     the trees are bare but the grass is green;
on the many distant roofs-  no snow lies,
   snow sure would winterize; 
oh, to just wake up to snow laying pristine!

Christmas needs some filigree snow falling,
a roaring fire to warm my mitten hand;
I am sure snow lovers are agreeing,
   and so I am praying,
now, a spoonful of snow lays-  in my wonderland!

_________________________
December 4, 2017

Poetry/Rhyme/'a spoon of snow'
Copyright Protected, ID 17-9686-16-0
All Rights Reserved.  Written Under Pseudonym.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Spoonful of Snow

A SPOONFUL OF SNOW

                        A spoonful of snow, just to glow
                              under dazzling sunshine.
                            Jolly Jack Frost marched fine
                          on snow-covered open meadow.

                            A spoonful of snow, just to glow.
                              Snow- flakes in white glamour
                              Mist in snowy armor.
                          Snowdrops glitter on shiny snow.

                       A spoonful of snow, just to glow
                           Your  dreamy glance glistens.
                           Heart-throb! My heart listens.
                        Warm-Warmer-Warmest kiss to flow             
  12/04/17
                        HM
   'STRAND SELECT 8' Contest by Brian Strand.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Spoonful of Snow

My long wait is over, the Christmas time is here
The northern wind blows chill in thin December air
Fading glow of frosty days freezes in the icy nights 
Fir trees sparkle as stars descend with their lights.

With warmth of log-fire in heart I hail the holy night
On branches of decorated tree my joy shines bright
Serene sound of sleigh bells jingles near, I can hear
It pulsates with the refrain rhythm of carol in the air.

With the sheen moon fondly gives to new snowflake
I’d illumine my love for whosoever would like to take
When the Christmas candle in my heart would burn low
I’d collect for you a piece of moon in spoonful of snow.

December 2, 2017.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Spoonful of Snow

A  Spoonful of Snow
It's Christmas time, see
But doesn't have to be
Just as long as I'm doing
It's wintertime and it's snowing

When it snows it's flakes white
White as the clouds soaring in flight
Glitters so on the ground shines bright
Days and nights
Snows falls suddenly don't hear a sound
Frozen rain coming down

I remember mama making for me
A frozen ice desert ooh wee!!
Frozen Ice cold yum homemade Ice Cream
We would all the children scream

from a Spoonful of snow

Now here's what it took
To make this Delicious
Ice cream from the skies fallen down,
 to the ground
Made of snow yum-yum,
 you should try it your self, huh?

A cup of milk any will do;
One-third cup of sugar;
One teaspoon of Vanilla;
Enough for every little girl and fellow;
10 cups of clean white snow;
this equates to 46 spoonfuls;

Oh, A Spoonful of Snow

This is what I like in the winter;
Enough for every little girl and fellow;
Taste good more than you know;
A spoonful of Snow;


12/01/17

FOR CONTEST: CHRISTMAS RHYMES
Sponsored by  "KIM RODRIGUES "
Form: Rhyme

Just a Spoonful

came from smoky bars                                                                                                                                                   missing grandmother’s riddles                                                                                                                                    laughing little dog
Form: Senryu

Spoonful of Sugar

Enveloping
Consuming me
Overwhelming to say the least
Won't you hold me?!
Won't you hold me closer, please?!

Growing older, such a farce
Peripheral maturity
Melts away by the time you're on your knees
The harder we become
The more devastating a single crack can be

Enveloping
Consuming me
Overwhelming
To say the least
Won't you hold me?!
Won't you hold me closer, please?!

I'm still a little boy inside
Hiding from the boogeyman
In the dark corners of my mind
But it's so hard to hide
From me 

Enveloping
Consuming me
Overwhelming
To say the least
Won't you hold me?!
Won't you hold me closer, please?!

When everything falls away! Falls away, yeah!
It never really died to me, died to me!
How do we go about forgiving ourselves?!
When all seems to be dead inside
And we're the only ones to blame?!
So, how do we go about it?! How do we?! How do we?!

Sing for today, and hope for tomorrow
Run from the thought that always seems to swallow
You…
Form: Lyric

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