Candy Free Verse Poems

I love you
Sounds like candy
When it rolls off your tongue
So sweet
It's bound to fill my mouth
With cavities

I imagine you talking to me
I go word by...

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The heart is a tapestry loosely sewn together with thread, each string a different section of the brain. Connecting the family string to the feelings...

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I waxed the floor too carefully—
the classroom still blue with youth I left behind.
Fresh chalk lined up like teeth I inhaled and exhaled.
Suspicion wore me...

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Sweetness like candy
One Savor at a time
Sensual whispers
Eyes that attract
Words of romance
 Candles setting the mood
Closeness Love nice and smooth
Tender touch
Loving much
Heart pounds like a...

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Twenty years ago this month I was in Enid A. Haupt Garden, a manicured
garden surrounded by two rows of saucer magnolia trees. The magnolious
large, cup...

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I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade...

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The Moon
loves in lilac, sees in maroon,
swathed in gossamer and thyme of galaxies,
basking in the periwinkle pages
of my bejeweled mind,
as the night unravels a story
written...

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unquestioning faith
propaganda sweet like candy
follow me says the lie
Cemeteries buried with good intentions
 
And the Drumming Gets Louder

Knowledge is taught wisdom is not
The sweet taste...

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Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust 

Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in...

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The picture changes to a serene painting of the sea
Then the evening clouds of late autumn by the ocean
There's a crystal blue lake followed by...

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We entreat the God of Love with glee sweet natures candy! Nervously naturally fearlessly did hurry to the water spring as the rushing winds blew...

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We’re all just Scattered splattered rainbows on Skyscraping Walls. 

That’s some graffiti, the graffiti is the name. 

There’s graffiti with some face paint 
Looking out...

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ghiradelli

i saw her in the distance
walking towards me
or away
illusions are deceiving

ghirardelli square to my left
the world of hope and expectation to my right
desire oozing like...

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Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy

The following pastiche 
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros 
(????) cow licked
country bumpin videlicet hick
bullied...

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stanyan street 
.
.
we walked along stanyan street 
where amber-colored streetlights 
looked down upon us 
like hundreds of sunrises 
as if in reverence and respect 
.
we...

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