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Mik Oct 2022
In that hot summer of sticky skin,
Pulp stuck in gums of our stifled grins,

You licked limeade from my citric lips,
Then went spelunking in pitchers of it

Maybe the fructose was high,
But the syrup felt simple,
So I drank my fix straight from your dimples

Then all at once - your sweetness drained-
All limey alchemy wrung from your brain-

...and so went my first name
(Why won’t you say my name?)

Acid corroded my skin, now blistered and sore,
But I’m still sweet for you at my core

Are you sour at your center?
Or just tough on the rind?
I hope sugar from limeade lingers in your mind
betterdays Sep 2014
it is a day of sunshine,
yet i am chained
to a desk.
balancing budgets.
but oh! how the sun calls.

it whispers,
sweet, slices of
watermelon dreams,
in to my ears.
it murmurs, bubbling
brooks of tantalizingly,
****, homemade
lemon-limeade.
it talks, incessently
of mangos, eaten warm
and straight from
the skin...

it beckons me, to sin,
to walk barefoot, across
forbidden grass...
to the sand...to the sea


oh! how the
springtime sun
beckons me....

yet,
here i sit,
admist budget misery....
it's enough to make a grown
girl cry.....but deadlines are
immminent.
Mike Bergeron Nov 2011
And I don’t think
I have ever seen
A sight
More worthy to
Behold
Than this relic
Of my past life
Glowing gold
In a bed of green

It seems to me
Its energy
Is tangible,
Is literally
Trailing gold threads
Through the chilled
October air,
And I’m not sure
If I’m seeing things
That aren’t there
Or if it’s really
My lover’s hair,

I suppose
I’ll never know
For certain
If those hideous curtains
Are still hanging
In the apartment
We used to get
Burnt in,
But I guess further
It doesn’t matter,
Not with the fervor
Of my new life as
A learner
Replacing my dreams
Of bounty and ******,

Not literally, you see
I never hurt her
Or treated her badly,
It’s just that once
She had me she’d
Had enough,

So what to do what to do
With all this free time
And all this free time
And all this free advice
About making limeade
From limes,
Or however the
**** that saying goes,

Either way this blows
And the wind is doing the same
And the way that the gold
Swirls around her frame
Makes me happy I still
Remember her name.
Spenser Roper Mar 2014
limbo bow
limp impure
lime I'm
limousine scene
limeade made
limerick rickety kitty
limit mit it
limb from limb
Jaede Bayala Apr 2019
the temperature is dropping all too fast
& a gust of wind sends a
shiver up my spine
the iridescent hair on
my arms perking up.

what once
was strawberry limeade
will soon be a steaming mug
of thick cocoa

i wish to lie down
on a once
hot patio
but now
is a quivering slab
of gravel.

my skin is turning pale,
and like Lysander said
the roses are fading
all too fast
& im not
quite sure
i can take
all of
this change

i cant breathe
this air
for it now
pierces my lungs
so im stuck inside
reminiscing about the
once warm breeze
of a
midsummer’s night

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