Best Lemonade Poems

You taste as if twilight were—
lavender swirling like smoke from the earth
licorice lingering with the full moon’s soft pull
a sweetness both dark and divine.

Your skin sparkles with starlight
electric and soft as moth wings.
We sip the pink sky
lemonade lakes cascade through our fingers
time unspools between our...

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When you're walking 
Scuffling along in trouble's shoes
Head hanging low
Mumbling moody blues
Well me, I'm making lemonade
Why can't you

Taking bitter adding something sweet
Maybe a smidge, no a heap full of hope
Heck, by days end I'll mix it up
Movin' straight to, getting crazy in root beer floats

When...

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summer's golden hot
auntie's made cool lemonade
front porch nostalgia

flowers all the day
in mauve orange and yellow
playing in the yard

lemon meringue pie
and sunflowers are nodding
gilded memories...

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Lord
I am bored
Nothing you handed to me
Is what I want
Lord
It’s a waste of my time
Why do you keep wasting my time God?
I am tired of investing my energy 
In something so silly
So not what I wanted
God do you believe in being productive?
I feel like I...

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Life handed me lemons
And I tried to make lemonade
But there wasn't enough sugar
For the sour taste to fade

Like a naïve child
I created my own brand
And set up on a corner
With my little lemonade stand

But my drinks were too sour
And people quickly stopped buying
So I packed...

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They say when life gives you lemons you make lemonade
That's the saying, right?
But what about all the other parts we need
Like water to give it life
To make it more that just lemon juice
And sugar to give it sweetness
Making it worth the wait
But making lemonade isn't...

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Summer is a lemonade
 
Summer breeze blowing the grass around
with a warm sun kissing my face
blue skies wrap and hug me
as I watch the butterflies race.
Summer gives me lazy days
coloured flowers and dancing trees
smell of charcoal and starry nights
brings back childhood memories.
Summer is an endless...

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The purchase of our first home was a charm
No money down and very affordable payments
We learned well, and were never alarmed or harmed
But we were disappointed by delays in street pavements

Our second home purchase required a co-investor
Their family and mine were happy and well pleased
Our...

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When lemonade makes a lemon you hand life!

Entrant into David Williams' "Chiasmus" contest

3/7/2012...

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"Lemonade"
 


Agency sent me to 
the territory of 
Lemonade dreams
where secret rendezvous
were disjointed 
and criminally spent 
shooting the cool breeze
she blew hot and cold 
covertly coquettish 
while they waited for 
absent common sense
to repent in her confessional booth
like diamonds their eyes twinkled 
their smiles stroked
the...

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- Awake
Living is easy,
In the dog days of summer...
The truth for some.

- Tiredness
Shrouded in fatigue,
Life is full of twists and turns...
Decisions abound.

- Sleep
Death is a release,
Mortals have the luxury...
Free will rules the day.

- Rejoice
Frustration subsides,
The ebb tide reveals new life...
Wounds begin to heal.

.....Summer, Fall, Winter,...

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Life is not always easy, for some it is pretty rough
You have to take the good with the bad. the sweet with the sour
But some of that is by the choice we make
Some will burn in the fire, others it will make tough
For those, it...

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One
What good is it, to complicate flesh and bone you've yet to know?
 To paint portrait a brain only seeing the mask-y Face, 
It is a canvas that is sure to lie.
 What use is it, to flee a golden palace for a teeming forest?
When...

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Lemonade; the sour made
for pulling on a tongue.
A sweetened taste of liquid juice
where wonder's just begun.

Refreshing for it's ray of light
where acid burns the sun.
A quench to seal saliva's way
that cooling brings to fun.

Where nickels placed on sticky spills
mean profits raised to some.
That little girls...

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When in life we are given 
Lemons bitter and so sour,
Choose to make Lemonade,
To ourselves empower.

Take the negative,
The bitter, sour of
And turn it into positive,
Sweeten it with Love.

I have learned to do this
I must say rather well.
My Lemonade is free
For I will never sell.

The recipe...

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