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Sweetener Poems - Poems about Sweetener

Premium Memberwhipped cream

...puddings jello and fruit pies
great on a dessert
whipped into a frothy cream
full of sweet sugar
puffy and frothy
with sweetener
milk...
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Categories: sweetener, food,
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium Membermy three baskets

...she was created by my sister
made of bunny material
for Easter
a cloth basket where I put my sweetener

a store bought basket made of plastic
sits on another counter, holding bread and buns

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Categories: sweetener, life,
Form: Free verse



WHAT NO SUGAR MEANS

...What no sugar means
Is that it’s sugar free
For a diabetic
It’s very important
But when something
That’s supposed to be
Sugar free has sweetener
Inside, like fructose or
Sweet and low, it’s 
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Categories: sweetener, health, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHealthful and Delicious Tea

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I never used to drink sweet tea,
and neither did I drink coffee.
The one drink that my mother made
was the 60’s stand-by, sugar water called Kool-aid.
I never liked it much; I wanted pop instea...
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Categories: sweetener, drink,
Form: Rhyme

Stars of Clarity

...Striving for silver linings in the ebony of the equinox   
I chased my dreams of idealism to stop the endless maroon anguish shadows 
Yet your words failed to sing a symphony of mosaic joy
You mad...
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Categories: sweetener, allusion, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Flavor of Kool-Aid

...("In Memory of Gary Vaughn", 2018, original encaustic)

The Flavor of Kool-Aid

We all get to choose the flavor of Kool-Aid we drink.
And maybe that’s the extent of free will.
We each ha...
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Categories: sweetener, religion, science, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

This Chapter Is Called Happiness- a Guile

...Poet: Em Em Mubarak Lawal
Sequel: after Paciolo pen saint

I rather call a spade a sword
why does the finesse of a wine
not linger on the tongue for long?
why does tears have to flow
when butt...
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Categories: sweetener, 1st grade, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSugar, You Temptress

...Sugar, you temptress, you hide everywhere 
In many a form you never play fair 
You sneak in my life like a thief in the night
Stealing my breath with every sweet bite 
Making me long for your tas...
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Categories: sweetener, food, funny, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Poems For Poets Vi

...Poems for Poets VI



Caveat
by Michael R. Burch

If only we were not so eloquent,
we might sing, and only sing, not to impress,
but only to enjoy, to be enjoyed.

We might inundate the ea...
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Categories: sweetener, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Poems For Poets Iv

...POEMS FOR POETS IV

PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing...
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Categories: sweetener, poems, poetry, poets, political,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Poets Viii

...POEMS ABOUT POETS VIII

PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via plea...
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Categories: sweetener, class, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Haven My Nirvana

...sun shadow finger marks streak down my kitchen
they appear in even strokes, reminding me of piano keys
excited sun-thriving plants lean toward my blinds
hoping to soak in as much Vitamin D as they...
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Categories: sweetener, life,
Form: Imagism

Untitled

...Sweetener of my tea
Listener to my plea
Keeper of my heart
Saver of my soul
I trust that you will lead me home


Potter of my flesh
Sustainer of this life
Giver of love
Healer of wounds
In...
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Categories: sweetener, christian, life,
Form: Free verse

Spoon and Bowl

...three words
eight letters
whisper them into my ear
and I’m all yours, love
never thought I would ever be
ready for love
ready for love
and then
somehow
sometime
I was ready for love
and yo...
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Categories: sweetener, desire, dream, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberK99

...k...99...

canine tea...?
nine...!

can...nine tea...?
nine...canine tea...!

nine...cay'enne tea...?
nine...!

'kay...!!!...ninety nine cay'enne...nine tea...$9...'kay...!!!


stan'san...
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Categories: sweetener, addiction,
Form: Free verse

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