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Sweetmeats Poems - Poems about Sweetmeats

Premium Member Nuts in the Soup
...I wrote these lines 7 years ago, slightly edited today. Perhaps they have more meaning now than they did then. "There are so many nuts in the soup!" That's what I hear and see and it's ......

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Categories: sweetmeats, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Get Ready
...Forsooth, one must stand proud and get ready my dear Hold thy breath for combat into that coveted dress Ladies, unite, squeeze tight - let thy true self appear 'Tis the festive......

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Categories: sweetmeats, beautiful, beauty, confidence, humor,
Form: Villanelle



Monet's Garden
...On jade stems iris blooms gently swayed in hues of lavender, dusty pink and mauve until pollen seekers were lured to the banquet of sweetmeats. Within velvet petals they feasted. In Monet's......

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Categories: sweetmeats, art, flower,
Form: Free verse
Aimlessness-02
...Crystal cliff from the dale of Dhurung, covered with a motherly pad It was 1986; winter's biting cold hugged the spacious birthing cry The sweetmeats invited harshly the ominous job suspension lett......

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Categories: sweetmeats, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mid-Summer Night Dream
...Once upon a time in the land of the Hobbits, Fili was annoyed. He wanted excitement. He was the youngest of the twelve dwarves, Dressed in a blue cloak and sporting a yellow beard, He entered i......

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Categories: sweetmeats, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Staging the Night
...Alabaster staircase framing chandeliers Picassos, Renoirs, Van Goghs lining the walls Marble floors, dazzling in the starlight Polished perfection staging the Night Dainties, delica......

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Categories: sweetmeats, beautiful, celebration, jealousy, money,
Form: Couplet
Second Indian Wedding
...Colors of life, fertility, sanctity fly Aromas include sweetmeats, coconut, fire There's flowers galore, honey, spices Not for meals only, but especially decoration Focus now on the bride: Vermi......

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Categories: sweetmeats, africa, celebration, seasons, wife,
Form: Free verse
A Winters Tale
...The bones of winter cracked the ice black, coal black night. A hoary wind spits frost crystals that dazzle and blur the sight. Boney fingers of bare deciduous wood, scratch against the eaves as th......

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Categories: sweetmeats, christmas, december, humanity, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Thou Good and Faithful Friend
...THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL FRIEND Farewell, thou good and faithful oven mitt. Thou hast served thy time but now must leave. But ere thou goest, let us reminisce a bit About the thi......

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Categories: sweetmeats, food, friend,
Form: Rhyme
The Easter Bunny
...The Easter Bunny Easter Eggs, in the shops galore, Buy just one and you’ll want lots more. One for Mum and one for Dad And all the children, that’s not bad. Easter eggs are just s......

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Categories: sweetmeats, animal, chocolate, christian, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Cupcakes
...Piggery Diggery Hungry, I stuffed I chewed, I swallowed Lunchtime sweets Floury treats Icing sweetmeats, Burp Sturp Stop The Cup Cakes......

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Categories: sweetmeats, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nuts In the Soup
..."Nuts are in the soup!" That's what I've heard: not so absurd Some add a pinch of spice now and then, from wit and the sharpened nib of a pen. Nutty little writers who like to fill the soup wit......

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Categories: sweetmeats, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Diet
...My wife is on a diet, so am I, her will prevails in setting what we do; no more to breakfast on a tasty fry nor lunch of prime Scotch mince or Irish stew. She loves her cherry cake, but it’s now ......

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Categories: sweetmeats, food, health, tribute, wife,
Form: Sonnet
Conniving Tongue of a Liar
...Words blended with honey, dripping, completely gullible, I continued sipping, drinking in all those little deceptive lies. and never once questioning the alibis. Conniving sweetmeats slipped fr......

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Categories: sweetmeats, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Do We Come In
...Where do we come in in medias res not knowing nor caring when doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what we saw d......

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Categories: sweetmeats, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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