The Harvest

A severe drought but water melons expanded
in the back yard of the farmhouse.
There was no hunt the whole night
and the hunter returns home
with his rusty shot gun.
Farm lassie counts the melons
for the week-end market
and they smiled each other
While he was passing the fence.

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Saving mustard seeds in hand, while a watermelon escapes.

Asian-Indian proverbs
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It's hard to know the quality of a person, or a watermelon.

Japanese proverbs
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don't imitate me;
it's as boring
as the two halves of a melon.

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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You can tell the ripeness of a melon by its look.

Botswana proverbs
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There are three tasty morsels: figs, peaches, and melons.

Sicilian proverbs
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A Red Slice Of Watery Red Melon

IN the room where we made love
an hour ago
i offer you a slice of my
red watermelon
i take a bite and i tell you
about its taste
sweet, as sweet as my love for you
you do not care
about the juice the redness the watery
freshness of my
red water melon
i am naked sitting on the floor
i am hungry and need some rest
i am talking unnecessarily wasting
my words about my red watermelon
you laugh
and you notice something flaccid
it is funny
and then you back to sleep
still dreaming

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Green Party is like a watermelon - green on the outside and red on the inside.

quote by Bill Dannemeyer
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Women and melons are at their best when they are really ripe.

Spanish proverbs
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Coolness of the melons

Coolness of the melons
flecked with mud
in the morning dew.

Translated by Robert Hass

poem by Matsuo Basho
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Marriage is a little bit like buying melons, you need a little luck.

Spanish proverbs
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It may smell like a melon, but is it going to make you sick?

Afghan proverbs
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Symbolism

the black wings of
a butterfly
are on top of the
red slice of
melon

she fabricates
some stories
from there

she says i cannot
say i am not
part of the black wings
the slice of the red melon

fears are embedded
on the red blood and
... finally i resign, she

never knew what a poem

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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A New Version Of My Life

life comes in my room
fresh from the rain
stripteasing me
so how can i not possibly embrace it
and forget
death?

oh, life is too forgiving
fleshy and sweet as cantaloupe and
supple as fresh
strawberry
how can i not take this irresistible
bite?

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Why Do You Want To Imitate Me?

do you like
that other half
of my
melon face?

don't you think
we both
are boring?

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Don't imitate me

Don't imitate me;
it's as boring
as the two halves of a melon.

Translated by Robert Hass

poem by Matsuo Basho
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friends are like melons, Shall I tell you why To find one good, you must a hundred try.

anonym
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The world is like that: one gives a melon, the other gets the stomach cramps.

Turkish proverbs
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Saving the mustard seeds that are in your hand might cause you to miss out on getting a watermelon.

Kashmiri proverbs
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