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

Welcome, Skippy and Sultana
Nutty, Banjo and Cabana

Those bars and boxes of Milk Tray
Milky Bar and Milky Way

A ‘99’ Flake ice cream cone
Zoom and Fab and Toblerone

Swisskit, Gold Mine, Apple Jack
Tiffin, Feast and Caramac

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

Sugared Almonds, Sherbert Lemons
Sweets that taste like watermelons

Marshmallows, Beech Nut, candy floss
The mysterious Juicy Fruit 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

Rosey Apples, Pontefract Cakes
White chocolate mice and jelly snakes 

Refreshers, Teacakes, Swizzles, Pacers
Toffee Logs, Fruit Gums and Waifers

Rumba, Dipped Flake, T Bar, Tunes
Fry's Five Centres, Macaroons

Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Sweet Tobacco, Lucky Bags


This ‘Pick and Mix’ is yours to share

With all sweet lovers 

everywhere.