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Updike Poems - Poems about Updike


Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top

...Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top...

spry buck analogous to energizing bunny 
jump/kickstarted procreation ruckus.

Home on the range 
cacophony quite absurd
PlayBoy Bunny herd
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Categories: updike, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme

Harold the Hugh Hefner Carrot Top Buck

...Harold the Hugh Hefner carrot top buck

Ruled his hare'm 
nsync with trumpeting Donald Duck,
(loud enough to arouse Daisy),
the former cartoon character,
a pensive searing black kind Roebuck
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Categories: updike, adventure, age, appreciation, business,
Form: Rhyme



Love Cento Poem

...True Love Cento 

There must be a million ways 
To say I love you
But these words will suffice for now 
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all:
If ever two were one, then surely we.
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Categories: updike, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNatural Language

..."Each flower, leaf, and blade of sod— 
small letters sent to her from God." *

Saying: Look how beautiful I Am! --
My Beauty shines through even them...

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Categories: updike, beautiful, beauty, flower, imagery,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberDecember

...(A Salute to John Updike)

Twelve months we wait
to spread the news
of wonder our world
each year renews.

“The shepherds wait
the kings, the tree
all wait for something
yet to be.”

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Categories: updike, christmas, light,
Form: Quatrain




Book: Reflection on the Important Things