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Calabash Tree Poems - Poems about Calabash Tree


Premium Member Thoughts of a Calabash Tree
...I was loving the sun, Not consciously doing anything My gourds hanging sweetly, Too big to move much Dancing with internal mirth Because I was being picked today It is always a relief to a ca......

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Categories: calabash tree, tree,
Form: Personification
Cowards
...I once met a drunken man there Under the shade of the calabash tree With a gourd of wine downed to the lees. He said to me when I came up: See, see my friend, I tell you From that yonder villa......

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Categories: calabash tree, character, courage, crazy, judgement,
Form: Blank verse



I Had a Dream When I Was Young
...I had a glistening dream when I was young Bright as an orange on October tree Near as the horizon on the rim of the sea Sweet as mango sweating in the grass Clear as the crystal of the hour glass......

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Categories: calabash tree, imagination, philosophy, dream, longing,
Form: Free verse

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