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Best Tomato Poems

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Premium Member Tomato Wrist
Decisions-decisions
Do you take a job where it's always womb-warm 
working for dirty broken pennies
or poke around in the wind and cold 
for a taste of...

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Categories: tomato, courage,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Tomato
Thought to first originate in Peru,
It’s a true tomato  fact,
oval or round,  and juicy too
from beefsteak to compact.
Tomato!  be you red or...

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Categories: tomato, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Life Is a Tomato
Life is a stage
We are the performers
Giving it our all
For some-success
Others-epic fail.

Mockery speaks as tomatoes fly
Covering those that failed
Yet instead of moaning
They wipe the juice...

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© Megan Ryan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tomato, inspiration, life, poems, poetess,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



My Big Red Tomato
MY BIG RED TOMATO
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



Stopped by a roadside stand last week
Just out of curiosity I thought I’d peek
At yellow corn and small red potatoes
But...

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Categories: tomato, food, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Haiku X 128 - Tomato -
seed of tomatoes
                      ...

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Categories: tomato, nature,
Form: Haiku
Tomato Not Fruit
Stories from East,
Not News,
Tomato grows East,
Not fruit!...

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Categories: tomato, fruit,
Form: Light Verse



Summer Tomato
Fresh sweet tomato
Flavor bursting when I bite
Heriloom cherry red...

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© Ann Roske  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tomato, food,
Form: Haiku
Tomato Plight 2009
Through my sweat and toil
I plant with hopes of bounty
Defeated by plight...

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Categories: tomato, mystery, nature, seasons
Form: Haiku
I Fell Into a Green Tomato
Clear as the first ray of sunlight
Scattered, centered, full of light
I fell with a purpose and a need
Yearning for fertile ground

Like the first drop of...

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Categories: tomato, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Ripe Tomato
Walked out on my sidewalk to the mailbox,
on top of the box was a pair of socks,
I said as I scratched my head,
"Who would leave...

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© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tomato, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Potato, Tomato Praise
Potato
       potato;
Po ta toe---Pa ta tal
       does it matter
gonna eat that in tha...

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Categories: tomato, analogy, celebration, cheer up,
Form: Limerick
Tomato
a piece of flesh
beautiful women
come from, die for...

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Categories: tomato, beauty, satire, woman,
Form: Triolet
Little Tomato
little tomato
Last of the dying season

I love you most of all
In the absence of
Your fat brothers and 
Blushing sisters 

Though they were exalted  
IN...

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Categories: tomato, love,
Form:
Premium Member Tomato Soup
"Life can be short so lick the plate/bowl with your tongue. Let your            ...

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Categories: tomato, food, poets, sea, write,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Truth About Tomatoes
Tomatoes are amazing things, so tasty-good to eat,
they have a secret juice inside that really can't be beat.

Eating one will make you strong and help...

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Categories: tomato, fruit, health, inspirational, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry