Love Poem: For All the Sweet Lovers
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Written by: Gary Radice

For All the Sweet Lovers

Flying Saucers, Flake, Bar Six
Country Style, Gobstoppers, Twix.

Toffee Crisp and Dairy Crunch
Grand Seville and Milky Lunch.

Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Caramac and Lucky Bags.

Bluebird Toffee slabs in trays
Milky Bars and Milky Ways.

‘99’ Flake ice cream cones.
Zooms and Fabs and Toblerones.

Crunchie, Topic, Fudge, Mintola,
Super Mousse, Crazy Joe Cola,

Golden Cup, Fruit Flavoured Rocks
(The secret of) The Black Magic Box.

Floral Gums and Cherry Lips.
Olde English Spangles, Walnut Whips.

Kinder toys encased in plastic
Necklace sweets linked on elastic.

Bazooka Joes and Liquorice pipes, 
Lollipops with swirly stripes.

Texan Bars and Funny Faces,
Mint Cracknel and long red laces.

Toffee Bon Bons, Drumsticks, Rolos
Amazin’ Raisin, Aztec, Mojos.

Jelly Babies, Jelly Tots
Milk Gums, Munchies, Mars, Pear Drops.

Sherbert strawberries, sherbert lemons
Sweets that taste like watermelons.

Marshmallows, false teeth, candy floss
The mysterious chewing gum flavour loss.

Peanut Brittle, Prize, Ice Breaker
Dolly Mixtures, Old Jamaica.

Kop Kops, Wine Gums, Laughs and Treets
Jap Desserts and whistling sweets.

Fishermen's Friends and Hacks and Zubes
Pineapple Chunks and Cola Cubes,

Those small round liquorice Pontefract Cakes
White chocolate mice and jelly snakes.

Refreshers, Polos, Swizzles, Pacers
Toffee Logs, Fruit Gums and Waifers.

Welcomes, Skippys and Sultanas
Nuttys, Banjos and Cabanas.

This ‘Pick and Mix’ is yours to share

With all sweet lovers 

everywhere.