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Prickly Pear Poems - Poems about Prickly Pear

Chicano's Vitula and the Prickly Pear Collector r
... Higo M Chumbo By Sostenuto de Cencerro occurring in the same syllable. ......

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Categories: prickly pear, adventure, beautiful, character, culture,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Plum Delicious
...Jack Horner was an impish little boy, who lived on Cherry Orchard farm; That produced varieties of fruit. For a mellowing sun, kept groves warm. The Horners had always been a serious set-......

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Categories: prickly pear, christmas, fantasy, fruit, nature,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member New Home in the Southwest
...A lean coyote chases a hare through heat of desert winds. His swift doe darts past my boots. They've managed to escape, this time. He'll lead the chase away another day. I pause to watch the s......

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Categories: prickly pear, animal,
Form: Free verse
The Old Child That Is Living In Me
...The Old Child That Is Living In Me When the Time was beautiful and Life clean and meaningful, we were those toddlers to waddle in shallow dirty swamps; run on dusty lands, leaving swirling winds in ......

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Categories: prickly pear, childhood, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hand Me a Crepe, Myrtle
...As the garden grows… This one is For Sythia Rose may not agree She’s the one who seems to think That “Everything’s for me!” Their beauty is so petty T......

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Categories: prickly pear, flower, fun, funny, garden,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Two-Faced Muse
...My muse can sometimes wear a scoundrel’s face. He flees and hides behind some desert brush, abandoning me in a barren place where sweet imagination has no gush! Of inspiration I can find no trace......

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Categories: prickly pear, writing,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Judy, An Addicted Foodie
...Judy Leigh was addicted with a food fixation. Gorging on fruit, veggies, and any crustacean. She wanted to stop and yelled, "Damnation! My overeating is causing me such frustration!" While grud......

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Categories: prickly pear, addiction, food,
Form: Rhyme
A Lone Star Pun
...A cowgirl got bucked off her horse And flew through the air with some force A prickly pear Caught her right where A lack of chaps caused her remorse!......

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Categories: prickly pear, word play,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member North of Nogales
...Ye old West signposts, green with needle-spurs: Santa Rita prickly pear, pancake prickly, plenteous buckets and sunset pink occurs. It’s mountain time to sip some wine dearly as the cac......

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Categories: prickly pear, america,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Hawaii
...Caren, whose poetry sings with grand plumage, swims with bouquets of flowers and such. You inspire me! And aloha to William :) HAWAII Bird of paradise, plumeria, jasmine, orchids, gar......

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Categories: prickly pear, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Meeting Grace House
...She had played down her house, had never mentioned its glory. We were amazed when we saw it, knowing it would be quite a story. It was not a mere house, but an Arizona hacienda on an estate. We ha......

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Categories: prickly pear, friend, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Scratch
...fragrance of rose petals was air bound and swirled in abundance lush temptation mixed fondly with the scent of her cinnamon skin the Buddha had asked for Lotus but positions may vary and change......

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Categories: prickly pear, rose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desert Rose
...I was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion; And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion. I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City; And the scenery alon......

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Categories: prickly pear, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Time Illumination Once Upon-
...Once Upon a Time illumination, black tie Chevron Wild mushrooms Spice Market Rusty Dried mud puddle now crusty Breath of fresh air Pearly Gates Tongue-tied Showtime polish Stone ~ ......

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Categories: prickly pear, allegory, allusion, conflict, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Is How It Will All End
...This is how it will all end lacquer looking glass boundary waters warm glows green with envy molten grasslands sea foam blazen Atomic spot light sun rays Raven wings snow day glaci......

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Categories: prickly pear, analogy, holocaust, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse

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